5 8 gallons of clean water covering approx.
Toilet overflowed on wood floors.
With the expertise of the technicians at accutech restoration and remodeling the answer is yes.
Bail a few inches of water out of the bowl before you start working.
The difference between cleaning up toilet water on your typical bathroom flooring e g.
This catches overflow that results from unclogging the toilet.
Class 2 is when the water has affected whole room area of the house.
Put old towels around the toilet base and across wet floors.
Especially if the water from the toilet overflows onto your flooring causing an extremely wet carpet.
Class 3 is when virtually all of the area has been saturated with the overflowing water.
This means materials like linoleum wood floors and fixtures and tile.
Replacing damaged wood unless the toilet leaked for a long time the joists are probably not completely rotten and sistering a piece of 2 by 8 inch lumber by screwing it to a rotted joist is.
We had a 2nd floor toilet overflow est.
The advice in this post is for toilet overflows not sewage backups.
This includes structures and up to two feet of water seepage up any walls.
Many question if it is ever possible to repair a wet carpet after a toilet catastrophe.
Now 36 hours later there are no visible signs of deformity to the continue reading toilet overflowed onto hardwood floor.
Feet of engineered wood floor.
It also reduces the chances of slipping and falling.
Vinyl or tile and cleaning up hardwood is the hardwood is porous.