What Should I Do if the Toilets flood the bathrooms?

6/15/2020 (Permalink)

Call SERVPRO when it comes to your toilets overflow.

For Contaminated Water Damage Restoration in Your Crestview Office Call SERVPRO

Everyone has it happen to them once or twice when the toilet gets clogged and then overflows, leaving your floors wet. The worst part of having a toilet back up in your office's bathroom is that the water coming from your toilet is not clean, and there is a good chance that it is contaminated.

How do you handle contaminated water?

After your office in Crestview, Defuniak Springs, or Chipley suffers from commercial water damage, our SERVPRO technicians identify the source of the problem. If the source of the moisture is your toilets, then we must change our procedures because the moisture may contain harmful bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms. When the source of a problem is a toilet or sewage drain, it is treated as a category three scenario because your building materials could get contaminated by the "black water."

How do you treat "black water" differently during restoration?

• Safety Precautions- Before we begin any restoration procedures, we make sure the work area is safe for our workers and all building occupants. Our technicians always wear the appropriate personal protective equipment, and they take it off before they leave the affected area, so they do not spread any contamination.
• Containment Chamber- When dealing with category three damage, we can seal off the affected area of your office with metal poles and thick plastic. The containment chamber traps in loose particles so that contaminants cannot spread to unaffected areas of your office.
• Air Scrubber- Once the containment chamber is set up, we can then attach an air scrubber to create negative air pressure inside the contained region. The scrubber then sucks any contaminated particles in the air through a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter.
• Sealants and Decontaminants- After your office bathroom gets dried out, we can spray viricidal chemicals on your affected building materials or seal them with a specialized paint.

If you ever notice water after one of your office toilets backs up, call SERVPRO of Crestview, Defuniak Springs, and Chipley at (850) 267-0746 immediately.