Anytime there is a sudden heavy rainfall the city sewer lines can become overwhelmed causing water or sewage to flow back towards your home.
Sewer drain backup valve.
Its elastomeric seal inside the flapper ensures a tight seal preventing fluid from entering.
Like all sewer valves once the flapper closes water use inside the building must be limited.
The cost of installing a backwater valve or a gate valve on your home drain system is frequently less than the damage caused by one public sewer backup.
Flood guards use check valve technology to seal off sewer water backing up in your floor drains because of overloaded sewer conditions.
A clogged drain line can cause a sewage flood.
Sewer line backup prevention.
Hub fits dwv but can be adapted for sewer and drain prevent sewage or any other fluid from flowing back into your water system with the oatey 4 in.
If either of them becomes plugged or overloaded sewage backs up and flows out of the lowest available drain.
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This document explains for homes connected to a municipal sewer we discuss how to prevent sewer or storm drain backups into a building during rain or heavy flooding including the installation and use of backflow preventers backwater valves check valves and toilet drain plugs.
That s usually a floor drain.
A big pipe carries waste from your house to the main sewer line under the street.
The flood guard float model float is pushed up by the rising water to seal off the drain opening.
As sewer valves go a check valve is the least expensive and the type most often installed a check valve does not prevent backwater 100 so it is ideal for short term backups lasting less than a full day.
When you add in the health concerns and aggravation caused by a backup a sewer valve may be a wise choice in solving your house drain issues.
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