Panic may set in when someone discovers the basement floor has been covered with water from the main drain, especially if the incident resulted from a toilet flush. Even when the situation results from washing machine or dishwasher backup, it’s still upsetting, but not as bothersome as when sewage has backed up into the home. Even worse is when the house doesn’t have a basement and the backup occurs in a toilet, bathtub or shower. If the house is located outside of a municipality and has a septic system, Septic Tank Maintenance Services will arrive promptly to diagnose what happened and resolve the problem.
Many causes can lead to this type of problem, and technicians have seen virtually everything. Sometimes people living in the house have routinely poured cooking grease down the drain, which solidifies on the inside of the sewer pipe and restricts the amount of waste water that can travel freely through. This is not only a bad idea because of the effect on pipes but because grease that reaches the septic tank adds to the sludge in the system. This disrupts the balance of liquid, solids and scum and can cause the tank to fill up more quickly than would otherwise be expected.
People have a habit of flushing items down the toilet that shouldn’t be flushed, and that’s true in homes connected to municipal systems as well. Technicians from a company like Business Name have assuredly opened the lid to a septic tank and seen tampons, cigarette butts, used condoms, adhesive bandages and all sorts of other non-degradable items floating on the surface. None of these things should be flushed down a toilet; they belong in a wastebasket. Please view the website website domain to get details on this particular company and the services it provides.
Often, nobody in the household has done anything particularly disruptive to the system, but the homeowners have delayed routine tank pumping and inspection too long. The tank overflows back into the sewer pipe. Septic Tank Maintenance Services then need to provide emergency service to remove the waste and return the system to good working order.