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Edgewood Water Restoration provides professional Sewage Cleanup in Edgewood: emergency availability every day of the year, certified crews, and coordination with your insurance carrier on approved claims. Call (765) 508-0821.

  • Service: Sewage Cleanup for Edgewood homeowners
  • Service area: Edgewood, IN and surrounding areas
  • Response time: 24/7 answering with priority emergency dispatch across Edgewood
  • Licensed and insured (License #RC21100059)
  • Serving Edgewood, IN since 2018
Local Knowledge

Sewage Backup Cleanup in Edgewood

We clean up sewage backups in homes across Edgewood, and we'll disinfect whatever can stay.

Sewer Lines Here

With most homes in Edgewood built between the 1920s and the 1960s, many still have cast iron sewer laterals. That's the pipe that carries waste out to the street sewer.

When Backups Happen

Heavy rain can overload the sewer lines here and push sewage back into basements.

We work in every corner of Edgewood, including the Nichol Avenue Corridor and the blocks around Gunter Park and Redwood Park. We also clean up sewage backups in River Forest, Anderson, Alexandria and Chesterfield.

Sewage Cleanup Services

Expert Sewage Cleanup for Edgewood Homeowners

Before you call your insurance company about a sewage backup in your Edgewood home, read the part of your policy that covers sewer and drain backup, or ask your agent, since policies handle it in different ways. Edgewood Water Restoration documents the damage with a photo report and walks you through what the crew found. The report lists the source, the affected square footage and everything that went out for disposal.

Edgewood Water Restoration handles the rebuild after a sewage cleanup once the space reads clean and dry. Insulation, drywall, baseboard and flooring go back over framing and a slab that's been cleaned and treated. You approve the rebuild scope in writing first, and it lists what's going back in your Edgewood home and the reason for each item.

Weather changes how the drying goes. In winter the heat stays on in the work area, since cold slows drying, and in muggy summer weather the dehumidifiers carry more of the load. Edgewood Water Restoration adjusts the equipment during the daily checks on your Edgewood job and logs the temperature and humidity along with the moisture readings.

If the blockage turns out to be in the public main, ask both your agent and your town's utility how they handle backups. Keep dated notes about when sewage first appeared in your Edgewood home and whether neighbors saw the same thing, since that timeline helps whoever reviews the claim.

When a septic tank backs up into your Edgewood home, reach Edgewood Water Restoration at (765) 508-0821 for the part inside the house. Your septic company takes care of the tank, and the crew takes care of the standing waste and the soaked materials, then cleans and disinfects what stays.

When to Call

Signs You Need Sewage Cleanup

If you notice any of these in your Edgewood home, schedule a free inspection before the issue worsens.

Carpet in the finished basement wet underfoot with a sour smell coming off it

Septic tank alarm sounding while the toilets gurgle and the tub fills from below

Bathroom vanity base swollen and stained after waste overflowed from the toilet

Neighbors on the same street reporting sewer backups on the same day as yours

A plumber's camera finding a collapsed or offset section of the lateral under the slab

Sewer cleanout cap in the yard pushed loose with water pooled around it

Gurgling from the shower drain every time the toilet refills after a flush

A second backup within weeks of a plumber clearing roots from the line

Water pushing up through the shower pan when an upstairs toilet gets flushed

Toilet bubbling or gurgling on its own every time the tub or shower drains

Our Process

How Edgewood Water Restoration Handles Sewage Cleanup

We follow these steps in order on every Edgewood job.

1

Emergency Dispatch

Edgewood Water Restoration dispatches a crew to Edgewood within 2 hours of the call. The truck arrives loaded with solids handling pumps, waste rated extraction units, HEPA air scrubbers, negative air machines, poly containment materials, respirators and disposable suits, so work starts on arrival.

2

Protective Gear and Zones

The crew suits up at the edge of the work area with disposable coveralls, gloves, boots and respirators, and marks the line between the work zone and the clean side. Gear comes off at that line and goes into bags.

3

Hard Surface Decontamination

Exposed framing, subfloor, slab and joists get scrubbed and rinsed, and the rinse water gets extracted. An EPA registered antimicrobial goes on once the surfaces are clean and stays wet for the dwell time printed on the product label.

4

Drain and Pit Cleaning

Source points such as the floor drain and any ejector pit get scrubbed and disinfected after the main surfaces, since residue collects where the water came out. Photos before and after go into the job file.

5

Daily Moisture Checks

A technician returns each day while equipment runs, taking readings at the same marked points and moving the air movers as the wet area shrinks. The numbers go in a log that shows the trend toward the dry reference.

Real Project Photos

Sewage Cleanup in Edgewood

Photographs from real sewage cleanup jobs completed by our crew in Edgewood and surrounding areas.

Category 3 sewage cleanup in Edgewood basementAffected material removal during Edgewood sewage backup remediationSanitization after sewage event in Edgewood Indiana homeSewage cleanup crew in PPE on-site in Edgewood, IN
Common Questions

Sewage Cleanup FAQ

Questions Edgewood homeowners ask us about sewage cleanup.

Containment and assessment. The crew confirms the source, checks for electrical hazards around the water, classifies the loss from its source, and seals the affected room with poly sheeting and a negative air machine before anything starts moving air around. Photographs and moisture readings happen in that same hour, because the scope and the claim both get built from what the crew finds before extraction disturbs it. Extraction usually begins inside that first hour too, once the room is sealed and the inflow has stopped.
It depends on how far the sewage spread and how much porous material has to leave the house. A small overflow on a tile floor that's caught the same day is the low end. A backup across a finished basement costs much more, because carpet, pad, drywall and insulation come out and the space needs cleaning, treatment and drying. Edgewood Water Restoration inspects first and prices the cleanup and the rebuild separately, with the readings behind each line.
Policies treat them separately. Standard homeowners policies typically exclude flooding from rising surface water, which needs its own flood insurance such as an NFIP policy, while sewer and drain backup usually depends on an endorsement. Water that rose from outside and water that came back through a drain can look alike in a basement, so the photos of the source matter when your insurance company reviews the claim.
For sewage cleanup the reference is the IICRC S500, Fifth Edition, from 2021. Any part of a backup that sat long enough to grow mold falls under the IICRC S520, Fourth Edition, from 2024. In your Edgewood home, you'll see the crew contain the area, remove what can't be cleaned, treat what stays and log the drying until it's done.
The affected room stays under containment through clearance, so plan on staying out of it for the cleanup and drying phases. The rest of the house usually stays usable the whole time, which is the point of negative air and a sealed entry. Edgewood Water Restoration tells you on day one which rooms sit inside the work zone and which route the crew will use to get there, and after the final readings the room is clean, dry and ready for the rebuild.
Water that came up from the bowl or the drain side carrying waste counts as Category 3. If the water came only from the tank or a supply line, it starts in a lower category. The crew checks the source and the conditions before choosing, and anything in doubt gets handled as the more contaminated kind. Edgewood Water Restoration photographs the evidence for the file.
Yes. Mold work follows the IICRC S520, and the water work follows the IICRC S500. If growth has already started in a wall cavity by the time the crew opens it, the remediation runs under containment with HEPA filtration and negative air, affected material comes out under controlled conditions, surfaces get HEPA vacuumed and treated, and clearance gets verified before anything closes back up. The mold portion is documented as its own scope on your Edgewood file, so you can see it apart from the sewage cleanup.
Keep them in a part of the house that doesn't connect to the affected room, and close the door to that room. Where there's no door, block the opening with a baby gate or a piece of furniture. Pets track water onto dry floors, so tell everyone in the household the room is off limits, and leave shoes that crossed the area at the door until the crew has gone over the route through your Edgewood home.
A HEPA air scrubber pulls room air through a filter that captures very fine particles, including the dust that demolition and cleaning stir up. On a sewage job it runs inside the sealed work zone while the crew works and keeps running afterward, and its filters get changed as the job calls for. Together with negative air, it helps keep dusty air in that room of your Edgewood home from drifting into the rest of the house.
Glazed tile and a concrete slab can usually be cleaned and disinfected in place, because the hard surface can be scrubbed. Grout is porous and the bed under the tile can hold water, so the crew checks both with meters before deciding. A slab gets its own moisture readings and stays under the dehumidifiers until it reaches the dry target.
Sources

Guidance and Standards for Sewage Cleanup

  • The ANSI/IICRC S500 is the published standard for professional water damage restoration. The current edition is the Fifth Edition, 2021. IICRC S500 Standard
  • The Indiana Department of Insurance advises against permanent repairs before your insurance company inspects the damage. Check your own policy for what it covers. Indiana Department of Insurance: Insurance Claim Tips
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Edgewood Neighborhoods We Serve

We take sewage cleanup calls in every part of Edgewood. Pick your neighborhood for local details.

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