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Keep Your Septic System Safe When Flooding

A long duration of heavy rains resulted in flooding . The ground gets drenched and may affect facilities like a septic tank to experience problems. Low lying areas suffered most of the flooding. Observe ways to help your wastewater facility not to malfunction on the rainy season. Minimize toilet flushing , reduce water usage when having a shower , lesser the water in your bathtub, dishwashing, clothes washing and others. Schedule your bathing and laundry if possible. Also, you can bring your laundry in a commercial laundry service to lessen your water usage and waste at home. It is not easy for homeowners to manage and minimize water usage and waste, but ideal to avoid costly emergency services. Once the flooding period is over you can have your routine back to normal. Homeowners should check their roof draining and gutters should be located away from where the septic tank is installed. To avoid trauma in your system, make sure that rainwater must not stay around near your f

What not to Flush Down in Your Toilet?

In every place we stay or go to like home, hotel, restaurant, fast food chain, offices, park and more, there is an available public utility service or comfort room (CR) to accommodate people waste disposal. As part of our daily life, we regularly use the toilet. Many people use the toilet for flushing things which should be disposed of elsewhere. Improper flushing of solid objects in the toilet causes clogging. There are cases that cell phones , children’s toys , paper and other objects are being flushed in toilets. It is a bad idea to get rid of solid item by simply dumping the item to the toilet, flush and it is gone. Every object you improperly flush in the toilet means expensive cost because once your wastewater facility is clogged you need an emergency service in order to resolve the issue. These are some of the items you daily use and must not be flushed in the toilet : ·          Feminine Hygiene Items Feminine items should not be flushed in your toilet becaus