The effects of flooding water on the plumbing in your Delaware residence can be costly and time-consuming to repair. There are specific locations throughout your plumbing system that are more susceptible to flood water damage. After you return to your home following water flooding, you should inspect the areas of your plumbing system that have been affected, enabling you to proceed in getting your plumbing repaired and your household efficiently running again.
Drain Clogs
Flooding due to heavy rainfall can obstruct the sewer line connection that leads to your Delaware home. Water flow backup may result, which can affect your faucets and toilets. To address water flow backup caused by debris lodged in outdoor drains, contact a professional technician who can perform a sewer line repair. For clogged drains inside your residence, keep drain areas free from storage items and consult a licensed plumber, who has specialized tools to remove obstructions in your drains after flooding occurs
Heavy Soil Damage
When the soil outside your home absorbs the moisture of flooding water, it tends to become much heavier than usual. This added weight to the soil can create stress on outdoor plumbing, which can crack your pipes, requiring repairs from a plumber.
Foundation Cracks
The foundation beneath your Delaware home is at risk when flooding waters cause soil disruption, which can damage the plumbing pipes located in the concrete foundation. This occurs when the water creates cracks in the foundation, causing the pipes undue stress, which leads to breaks in the pipes. If flooding affects these pipes, you will need to schedule repair to your concrete foundation, as well as pipe repair from a licensed plumber, to remedy the problem.
Septic Tank Contamination
The function of your outdoor septic tank is to dispose of solids in your plumbing waste water before the water flows to the drain field. Flooding causes water outside the tank to mix with the water inside and, if the tank overflows, the water can contaminate the soil in your yard. You can landscape the area around your septic tank to better ensure that flood water flows away from the tank.
Flooding is often an act of nature that is unpredictable and nearly impossible to control. Understanding the portions of the plumbing system in your Delaware home that are most at risk to the effects of flooding water can give you some insight on ways to minimize flood water damage. Keep the areas near your indoor plumbing drains as free from storage items as you can, and landscape the space surrounding your outdoor septic tank so that flood waters are routed away from the tank.
Professional plumbers are effective at helping you cope with the damaging effects that flooding can have on your plumbing system. The licensed plumbers of First Class HVAC have been assisting residents of Delaware, in towns including Felton and Elsmere, and Maryland, in towns including Chance and Tyaskin, for over 40 years. Contact us today and experience the convenience of our 24/7 emergency plumbing service.