After a Sewage Backup
•    Evacuate children, elderly, and pets from the area until the property is restored to safe conditions.
•    Contact your local utility companies, alert them of the situation, and request they shut off the electricity, gas, and water to your home. If the sewage spill is relatively minor, you can shut off the power and water yourself with the power distribution panel and main water valve.
•    Open up the windows to the affected area to help ventilate the zone.
•    Remove any dry, uncontaminated items from the area to reduce the risk of contamination.
Cleaning up a sewage backup is an unpleasant, smelly, and often dangerous task. That’s why calling the experts is recommended. Sewage is known to cause all manner of disease and infection. You wouldn’t want to risk your health. A professional is protected with the right equipment and training necessary to clean sewage of any scale.
•    The team wears personal protective equipment – rubber gloves, boots, protective eye wear, and a respirator. All skin is covered to ensure no direct contact with wastewater or sewage contamination.
•    The doors to the area are closed off to prevent any cross-contamination from the affected room to anywhere else in the home.
•    Using the most advanced restoration equipment, all sewage water is removed, dried, sanitized, and thoroughly cleaned.
•    All saturated carpet, flooring, insulation, wall paneling, and baseboards will be removed and disposed of in a safe manner.
We urge you not to deal with sewage cleanup yourself. Call Restoration 1 of North Georgia at 678-212-1122!