- Think your home is impervious to water damage? Think again! Flooding goes beyond weather-related causes. Thunderstorms, hurricanes, snow and heavy rain are usually to blame for floods in homes. But, did you know flooding can also easily occur because of overwhelmed or clogged sewage and drainage systems? Flooding can happen anytime, to anyone’s home in a fast or slow fashion, affecting common areas as well as those that you don’t expect they will. So, how will you know your house is vulnerable to floods?
- Here are situations that can easily expose your homes to inch-to-knee deep water, and how you can avoid them.
Drain Problems That Can Put Your Home at Risk for Flooding
- BROKEN DRAIN PIPE
- There are numerous situations that can eventually make your drain pipe crumble. Improper disposal of food, foreign items, and hygiene products down your drains is just one of the things to blame for a broken pipe. When these things clump up, the pipe expands until it can no longer hold up and burst. But tree roots are known to be the major contributor, especially in drain and sewer lines. That’s why it’s important to have a regular pipe inspection and well-maintained plumbing because it gives you an opportunity to reduce or avoid blocked drain situations in your home, which, therefore, prevents pipes from breaking.
- Crumbling pipework can stop the natural flow of drainage which in turn causes a complete blockage, resulting in water backing up. Other factors of broken pipe are age, ground movement, or simply poor installation. If you want to avoid dealing with a broken pipe, call a professional drain specialist to inspect your pipelines.
- BLOCKED DRAIN
- Without a doubt, a blocked drain problem is another reason that can expose your home to flood. If not dealt with can have different negative impacts on your home. Your family’s health will be at risk, and your home will become inhabitable, making repair and maintenance more expensive. From tree roots to broken lines and toiletries, they’re all terrible at making the drains unusable. What makes it worse is that it is not always easy to fix and would require a drain relining professional to fix when it has already reached the point where cracks and gaps have developed. Blockage in drains makes the biggest threat to backing up wastewater in toilets and drains throughout your home.
- If you’re experiencing this problem, then time is not on your side. Unless you’re okay to pay thousands of dollars to repair damages to your property and restore your plumbing system, don’t delay the problem. Call Revolution Pipe Relining for blocked drain repair.
- CLOGGED TOILET
- You might not know it, but yes, your toilet can also be a culprit for flooding in your home. When you treat your toilet like garbage or throw excessive toilet paper in it, you’re putting it at risk of overflowing. If you have trees near your sewer lines, then you have a bigger problem on your hands. When tree roots make their way deep inside a drain line or sewer line, toilet paper can snag on the roots, the blockage worsens leaving little space for the wastewater to flush the toilet.
- If you suspect you have roots under your toilet you can confirm this with an auger. If you’re comfortable and know to use an auger without damaging your toilet, you can extend the auger to the 6-foot mark and pull back up to see if you have roots. But in reality, whether the reason for your toilet not flushing is tree roots, the buildup of toilet paper, grease or a ball of hair, you shouldn’t let the problem go on. Keep in mind, nothing is too delicate to cause a major backup in your home.
- BLOCKED ROOF GUTTER OR STORMDRAINS
- When drains are subjected to sudden torrents of water like that of flash floods, the buildup of leaves, mould, and soil will make the stormwater system unable to hold the water up and cause a flood on your property. Unfortunately, storm pipes, roof gutters, and vents are not designed to handle a large volume of water and debris, which could lead to issues like blocked stormwater drains and downpipes. The other bad news is, heavy rains don’t just put water pressure on pipes that are in the house, but also on the pipes under the house. For this reason, it really does pay to get your drains cleared of debris on a regular basis with the blocked drain cleaning Sydney experts. Remember, an overwhelmed stormwater system has the capability of flooding your entire home in just a matter of minutes.
What should you do?
Keeping an all-year-round functional and efficient home is a never-ending task. It takes continuous effort and investment to ensure that every area in your house is in optimal condition and that includes the plumbing. Unfortunately, most homeowners often overlook plumbing or drainage systems and focus on what’s visible. This is until something goes wrong, and before they realise it, they already have a problem at hand they can never take control of, such as flooding.
If the situations above are something you don’t ever want to run into, call Revolution Pipe Relining. We offer a range of Sydney drain services i.e. blocked toilet drain, blocked sewer pipe, blocked sewer drain and blocked stormwater drains to keep your drains free from clogs and other damages.
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