Sewage Cleanup and Sanitation in Anaheim, CA

Toilet and sewer line backups could result in sewage entering your basement or other parts of your home or company. This dark, thick water is extremely hazardous and contains quite a lot of dangerous contaminants. These contaminants consist of pathogens, bacteria and viruses and present health risks and illness dangers if humans or animals become exposed. Finding a remedy to these problems ASAP is imperative, as is getting rid of the sewage from your premises. Having knowledge of what may lead to sewer backups may help you prevent a hazardous condition in your home or basement. Please see this list of things that may aid in stopping sewage backups that can occur in your home or business:

Causes of Sewage Backup

• Clogged Sewer Line – Sewage backs up into your home or business when your drain pipes or main sewer pipes become clogged. For example: if one toilet starts a sewage backup, the attached drain and/or many toilets and the main line may become blocked.
• Imposing Tree Roots – Trees that have large strong plentiful roots have the ability to grow into and around pipes, even crushing sewer lines. Tree roots are able to extend out to a long distance and damage your pipes, leading to a sewer backup. Keep an eye out for roots near your sewer mainline or septic tank area to prevent damage.
• Aging & Damaged Sewer Lines – Aging sewer lines, pipes, drains and septic systems will fail by slowly weakening and crumbling over time – leading to sewage backups, flooded homes, and basements full of sewer water. Pay attention to the age of your home and neighborhood and keep an eye out for these potential problems.
• Heavy Rainfall Amounts – Heavy amounts of rainfall can crowd your main storm and sewer lines. If it happens that your public sewers can’t handle large rainfall amounts, the water can make its way into the sewer lines connected to the mainline, and set your home or business in a possibly dangerous risk of sewer backup. There is a risk of severe health issues when in and around rising waters in your region that happens from flooding in rivers and streams, hurricanes, and other associated weather, when water combines with sewage, impurities and chemicals. When wading in these waters use extreme caution, and also when the water diminishes and starts drying. Organic matter that is dried out can then turn aerosolized and present a danger of inhaling in these contaminants. Be positive to use proper PPE to protect against these dangerous risks.

PuroClean’s sewage cleanup and sanitation process in Anaheim, CA

Our process for cleaning and remediation of Category 3 water, also known as sewer and contaminated water backup clean up according to the IICRC industry standards, is as follows:

1. Ensuring safety for all employees and occupants by placing restrictions on site access to remediation personnel only in order to prevent health related occurrences.

2. Assessment of the area and Health and Safety checks.

3. Ensure all remediation personnel are supplied with the proper personal protection equipment (PPE). This includes but is not limited to:

• Full face respirator
• Nitrile and cut resistant gloves
• Rubber boots with steel toes and shank
• Entire body suit protection

4. Implement established engineering controls, critical barriers, to prevent cross-contamination.

5. Eradicating any type of potential safety risks if at all possible.

6. Disposal, removal of bulk water, soil, and contaminates.

7. Eradication and disposal of all contaminate affected porous and semi-porous material that is not restorable – which can be but is not limited to:

• Carpet, rugs, pad, or underlayment
• Padded and upholstered items
• Drywall materials
• Vinyl flooring and underlayment
• Hardwood flooring

8. Implement cleaning procedures and utilization of EPA registered biocides and antimicrobials

9. Physical cleaning of all remaining structure items

10. A third-party Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) is recommended to perform clearance testing, to ensure the building is returned to a pre-loss condition for health and safety.

11. Drying of all items affected by the sewage intrusion back to pre-loss dry condition

12. Post restoration cleaning of all tools and machinery used

13. All materials from demolition process removed completely

Call PuroClean for your Professional Anaheim, CA Sewage Cleanup Needs!

Contact the PuroClean professionals for sewage removal, cleaning and remediation. Whether it’s from a blocked toilet, flood waters or sewage drain backups to tackle the problem for your home or business. PuroClean uses the latest, state-of-the-art equipment and cleansing tools to completely and effectively clean and restore all affected objects and structures.

The sheer quality of our sewer water removal and cleaning services, along with the speed in which we deliver the work, as well as our kindness demonstrated throughout the process helps make PuroClean your preferred damage remediation and restoration firm. We pledge to do everything possible and within our power to restore and rescue properties in all the neighborhoods that make up our coverage areas.

*Not all PuroClean offices provide sewage cleanup and sanitation cleaning services.