Sewage Cleanup in Lynn, MA

When a toilet overflows or a drain pushes waste back into your home, the water is not clean. The standards we follow call it category three water, the worst kind there is. It is dangerous. The water carries bacteria, viruses, and other things that can make you and your family sick fast. So we treat it that way from the minute we walk in your door. Our crew shows up in protective gear. We find the source. Then we shut it off so no more waste comes in, and we seal the rooms that got hit with plastic and tape to stop the spread. We move fast. The longer raw sewage sits, the worse it gets for your home and your health. When it is not safe, we cut the power to the wet areas before we begin.

Next we pump out the waste and the standing water with truck mounted gear built for this exact job. Then we pull out anything too soaked to save. Carpet, padding, and drywall that touched sewage usually have to go, so we bag all of it on site and nothing gets tracked through your home. We scrub every hard surface the water reached. That means the subfloor, the framing, and the lower walls, all cleaned with products made to kill what sewage leaves behind. We also treat the vents if the water got near them, since they can carry odor through the house. Then we dry. We set air movers and dehumidifiers around the space and pull the moisture down to the studs. Moisture left behind is what feeds mold in the weeks that follow, so we keep going until the meters read dry.

• We answer the phone day or night. A sewage backup in Lynn will not wait until morning, and neither do we.
• Our crew wears full protective gear and follows the IICRC rules written for cleaning contaminated water the safe way.
• We pull out the waste, disinfect each surface, and haul off the ruined items, often in a single visit.
• Air movers and dryers pull the moisture out down to the studs, so mold does not take hold weeks later.
• We log the damage with clear photos and written notes, which gives you a record to file with your insurer.

Lynn has many older homes with aging sewer lines. A hard coastal storm off Massachusetts Bay can flood the city system, and when that happens, water gets forced back up through the lowest drains in the house. We see it most often in finished rooms on the bottom level, where the low fixtures sit and gravity works against you. Heavy rain across Essex County can do the same thing in one afternoon. A single clog deep in the line can also send it all back inside. The cause changes, but the danger does not. Raw sewage has to be removed, disinfected, and dried by a trained crew with the right tools. If it soaked into a slab or a crawl space, we treat that too, not just the parts you can see. A mop and a wet vac will not cut it.

If a backup hit your Lynn home or business, call us now and tell us what you are dealing with. We will walk you through what to do until our crew gets there. Then we handle the cleanup from start to finish. Your place will be safe to live in again.