Try to imagine the most obnoxious scenario possible regarding your home.

Imagine, for a moment, raw sewage flowing onto your floors or in your basement.

If it’s never happened to you then cross your fingers and hope it never does, or don’t cross your fingers and take steps necessary to avoid it ever happening to you.

The necessary steps we are speaking about are the steps taken to install a backwater valve in your floor drain or your mainline. As spring rains turn into summer sunshine, now is the time to protect your home and your family from the wet season approaching this fall.  Cities work tirelessly to clean and inspect sewer lines, but it is still possible for a sewer main to plug up and that means sewage reversing direction and flowing into homes.

It is a nightmare scenario few experience, but once you do it will remain in your memory forever.

Backwater valves, also known as backflow preventer valves or check valves, are installed at the exit points of your home where the underground pipe that carries sewage from your home to the main sewage line is located.  Any backup of sewage is then instantly prevented from flowing back to your home at that checkpoint.

Is the backup of sewage a real possibility?  Normally not, but excessive rainfall and flooding can occur, and when they do the nightmare scenario is possible, most definitely in larger cities where demands are high during hard rains.  Stated another way, the more people in your city and the harder the rains, the higher your chances of a sewer backup.

Are you willing to take the risk?

Backwater valves are not indestructible and must be inspected on a regular basis.  In fact, most cities now require that backflow devices and backwater valves be inspected annually by a licensed and certified backflow testing company.

City Backflow Testing is one such company, offering affordable backflow testing for homeowners from Grapevine to Richland Hills, Southlake to Ft. Worth and all cities in-between.  City Backflow Testing installs only the best backflow preventers using quality products made by Wilkins, Ames,Watts and FEBCO.

No matter what your needs may be, from backflow testing to fire protection systems to pressure vacuum breakers and one way valves, you can count on City Backflow Testing to set your mind at ease and protect your family and home from the nightmare scenario mentioned above.  Call City Backflow Testing and let them take the worry out of the next heavy rains.