Approx 50yr old split level house have lived in for past 18+yrs. Only twice in all these years have we had flooding in the lower level, once 5 yrs ago when a storm drain had been blocked & opened up, & last this past Dec. during the heavy rains. This weekend has been near 40 degrees so there's some thawing of all the snow we have all around, & we are seeing some seepage through the floor drain in the laundry room & the downstairs toilet doesn't want to flush. We have just replaced carpet down there from the flooding in Dec. Would appreciate any suggestions on what we should be doing before we have to deal with all this melting snow & spring rains!

Does this mean you have public Sewer because a storm drain backed up or was the storm that was backed up inadated the drainfeild area with water and over saturated that and that caused the drainfeild to back up?
Have a product below that may stop the water from coming out of the basement drain but that doesn't solve the actual problem yet. Get back to tell me if you are on public sewer or a drainfeild and if so when was the last time you pumped the septic tank?

YouTube - Sewer Back-Up Protection Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywYPNmwI2j4&feature=channel)


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We are on public sewer. The first time we flooded (5 yrs ago) we had huge rains & a box set out for trash pickup blew down & covered the storm drain. The police noticed & pulled it off & we suspect the storm drain was overwhelmed with the amount of water, hence the backup. We live on a culdesac & the water covered the entire culdesac it was so much rain.
Last fall before our the 2nd flood in Dec we had some heavy rains & some beginning backup in our floor drain - village advised to cover the drain with a towel then a weighted bucket, because the storm drains were overwhelmed.

The interesting thing about this is our house is raised slightly more than most on the culdesac & in the past when others had water in their basements we didn't. Now we seem to be the only ones experiencing problems so I suspect we have a problem with our line or something.

We'd like some professional opinions before we call someone so we can have an idea what we should hear.

Thanks much!

If you are higher than the rest of the house line, and you now get water and they don't more than likely there is a partial clog on that public downward line below your tie in.
A partial clog will let the water in the line below you flow but when that flow gets heavy you will back up first because the line is restricted below you.

You can be the first here and get a plummer that has a sewer line camera and get a picture on video for your whole line to public tie in and check for blockage and if there is then roto it out.

If there are no clogs then you can show the township on video that its not your line from house to street.

This solves the argument on who's line is restricted and they need to address there line to open up. (solves the fight with township)

If this keeps continuing to happen to all , then someone needs to address the engineered line put in wrong to service those houses on the public line being to small etc.

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Thanks for the help 21boat! We will call a professonal with camera & also call the village to see if they want to be present to view camera at the time it is done. I've read that's a good idea so there can be no disputing the problem.

Really appreciate your thoughts on this problem!