5 Common Causes for Bathroom Flooding
10/28/2021 (Permalink)
- PLUMBING BREAKS
Pipes age over time and can rupture. Excess water pressure is the main cause and can result in a quickly flood a bathroom.
- OVERFLOWED TOILET
Toilet overflows are common occurrences and can often be the result of blocked toilet traps or backed-up sewer laterals.
- BLOCKED PIPES
Wet wipes down toilets and hair down sinks are a few examples of the items that we routinely find as the primary cause of loss when performing water mitigation in a bathroom.
- DRAINING ISSUES
When your overflow drain fails, simply running your bathtub fills the tub to overflowing and can send water cascading behind the shower wall and across the bathroom floor.
- SEWER BACKUPS
Flooding from storms will often be one of the causes of loss and can cause sewer main backups that fill the bathroom with sewage, but tree roots also can crack, clog and back up sewer lines.