Backflow Valve and Back Water Valve Installation
Water backing up in your basement? Drains backed up? Consider a backflow valve installation to protect your home and valuables.
Contact Emergency Plumbing Markham at 647-808-4088
Call NowThere are many reasons a backup can happen in your home. There could be a blockage in the lateral line connecting your house to the city lines, or a blockage or damage to the city line, or even something in the internal plumbing of your home. That’s why you need qualified professionals like Emergency Plumbers Markham to help determine the source and solution to your emergency plumbing problems.
How do you know if you have a backup or clog in your pipes?
The first sign of a problem might be standing water around your drains, or slow drains. If your slow drains don’t resolve themselves over time or get worse, contact Emergency Plumbers Markham right away to prevent a plumbing problem from becoming a plumbing nightmare.
What causes backflow and lateral line blockages?
The most common cause of blockages are tree roots. Reaching for the moisture, the fine tree roots hairs will make their way into cracks or openings in the pipes and start growing into the pipes themselves. Other causes of backups can be rainfall temporarily overwhelming the city sewer system. The lowest drains in the home will be the first to overflow. These are worst case scenario situations, but they do happen. Waste from hundreds of neighbours pours into people’s home, damaging and destroying property and posing a health risk to homeowners. How do you prevent backflow into your home? The best investment you can make in your property and protect your valuables is to install a backwater valve or what is sometimes called a sewer backflow valve.
How to Backwater Valves work?
Backwater valves are like a gate that keeps the reverse flow of water out of your pipes. Sometimes knows as “Backflow preventers” these valves automatically sense the reverse flow of water entering your home, from your main line or lateral line and closes it off from the sewer system outside. A backwater valve is a simple mechanism that can be installed in a new home or retrofitted for older ones. The valve is a flap that is normally open and kept open by the outwards flow of waste and water from your home. The minute the water changes direction – from the sewer line flooding or main line blockage, in – the flap floats up to block that water. This prevents your drains from backing up.
Installing a backwater valve is the most efficient way to prevent sewer line flooding and prevent basement flooding.
Flooding can cause homeowners thousands of dollars in damages and repairs. Emergency plumbing situations like these can be prevented with the timely installation of a backwater valve that will protect your home against serious damage while you’re home or away. Valves are a practical and cost-efficient way to ensure that you never have to deal with sewage flooding, electrical damage, damage to your floors, walls and belongings.
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Call NowNever deal with a flooded basement again. Install a backwater valve today.
Other causes of backwater leading into the house is a blockage in your main line. The main line or the vertical line is the common pipe that all the drains in your house lead to, and that leads that water, in turn, to the main city sewer line. If this line gets clogged or blocked, all the water and appliances connected to water are unsafe to use. Common causes of a blockage to the main line include, tree roots, improperly disposed of waste products, fats, oils and grease that collect and harden and block the passage of water, objects like toys.
It’s good to know if you have a backflow preventer installed in your home. This unit is installed underground on your main drain leading to the city. The purpose of this is in the event the city drain backs up - the backflow preventer will stop all sewage from entering your home and existing through your basement drains/toilets.
At Emergency Plumbing Markham, we have all the tools and experience you need to have your clogged pipes fixed quick and affordably. We always have all the tools we need on hand and we are prompt, professional and qualified to detect and resolve your plumbing requirements. Protecting your home is our passion and plumbing is our expertise.