Toilet Backflow Cleanup in Lehi, UT

Toilet Backflow Cleanup for Lehi Homes

Toilet backflow is different from a simple overflow. In an overflow, the toilet you just flushed fills too high and spills because of a clog in that bowl. In a backflow, water and waste rise up out of a toilet that nobody used, often a basement toilet, because something downstream of it is blocked. When someone upstairs runs a shower or the washer drains, that wastewater has nowhere to go and comes up through the lowest bowl.

Backflow water is category 3. It is wastewater from the drain line, not clean tank water, and it can carry sewage from every fixture in the home. It runs across tile, under vanities and tub aprons, into the joints of vinyl plank and down to the subfloor. In a basement bathroom it can travel under the wall into an adjoining bedroom or family room carpet. In an upstairs bathroom it can seep around the toilet base and stain the ceiling below.

A local restoration crew wearing protective gear extracts the contaminated water and removes porous materials it touched, such as carpet, pad, the bottom of drywall and swollen vanity bases. They clean and disinfect tile, fixtures, the toilet exterior and subfloor, then dry the area and check any ceiling or wall below.

Lehi homes with basement bathrooms see this most. Newer subdivisions in Holbrook Farms and around the Thanksgiving Point area often have a full bathroom in a finished basement, which is the lowest fixture and the first to back up. Older homes downtown may have aging drain lines where a partial blockage makes the basement toilet bubble and rise.