What our sewage cleanup covers
Sewage is the worst kind of water damage. When a sewer line backs up into your Overland Park basement, or a toilet overflows across a tile floor, you are not dealing with clean water. You are dealing with what the IICRC calls Category 3 water. That is black water, and it carries bacteria, viruses, and germs you cannot see. We treat every backup as a health risk first and a cleaning job second. Our crew shows up in the right protective gear. We block off the area, and we start the work the same day you call whenever we can reach you. Most backups we see in Johnson County trace to one of a few causes. Heavy spring storms can overwhelm the city sewer. Tree roots can crack an older clay line. A floor drain or a sump can give out in the middle of the night.
The first move is to stop the spread and pull out the standing waste. We use strong truck mounted pumps sized for the volume in front of us. A flooded floor does not sit and soak any longer than it has to. Once the liquid is gone, we remove the materials that soaked it up. Carpet, pad, and drywall that touched black water cannot be saved. We cut them out and bag them for proper disposal. We set aside the items worth saving and let you know what is safe to keep. Then we clean and disinfect every hard surface the sewage reached, from the slab to the bottom of the framing. We follow EPA guidance on the products that kill what a backup leaves behind.
- We answer your call ourselves and get a crew rolling to your Overland Park home or business fast, because raw sewage does not wait for business hours.
- Every job follows IICRC Category 3 protocol, the standard for the dirtiest class of water, so the space is handled as the health hazard it really is.
- We extract the waste, remove the soaked carpet and drywall that cannot be saved, and bag it all for clean disposal instead of leaving a mess behind for you.
- We clean and disinfect with EPA registered products that target the bacteria and the heavy odor a sewage backup leaves on floors, walls, and framing.
- We dry the structure with commercial fans and moisture pulling units, then check the readings with meters so nothing damp stays hidden behind a wall or under the floor.
After the cleanup, the space still has to dry all the way out. If it does not, you trade a sewage problem for a mold problem a few weeks later. We set commercial air movers and fans that pull water from the air. Then we track the moisture in the framing and the subfloor with meters. We stop when the numbers read normal again. We log the whole job with photos and readings as we go. That record helps a great deal when you file a claim with your insurance company. You get straight answers about what we found, what we hauled out, and what it takes to put the room back together. If the backup points to a broken main or a cracked line, we tell you plainly so the repair goes to the right trade and the problem does not come back.
If a drain or a sewer line has backed up anywhere in your Overland Park home, call us now. We will walk you through what to touch and what to leave alone. Then we send a crew out to remove the waste and make the space safe again.
