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This is the shocking moment a mum’s toilet overflows with sewage, leaving her with a £30,000 bill and unable to live at home.
The mother-of-five, who lives in London, was forced to take her children to their grandmother’s house after a thick brown mixture of faeces and toilet paper gushed from the toilet and destroyed the ground floor of the property, including a new. kitchen.
Footage has emerged of last month’s nightmarish incident, which also decimated the home’s bathroom, hallway and living room.
In the video you can see a dark brown liquid constantly spilling from the toilet at an alarming speed.
The sludge then runs out of the bathroom and into the hallway, where it continues to cascade through the house even though towels are laid out to absorb the mixture.
This is the shocking moment a mum’s toilet overflows with sewage, leaving her with a £30,000 bill and unable to live at home.
The thick brown mixture flowed from the bathroom into the hallway and across the ground floor of the home despite the mother of five’s attempts to soak up the liquid with towels.
The mother said: “I think the damage would be around £30,000 if you include everything I have lost and the work that will have to be done.”
“I spent a lot of time fixing up that house and it’s heartbreaking to see it completely ruined.”
The toilet first overflowed on March 17, completely destroying the baseboards, flooring and the family’s new kitchen.
Plumbers spent most of the day pumping wastewater out of the house and clearing blockages inside the sewer main.
But the next day sewage overflowed from the toilet again, causing more damage.
The mother-of-five, who is now waiting for her insurance to cover the cost, said: ‘It was a sewer pipe that runs under my house that had become clogged.
‘My property is at the lowest point when the pressure increased. Everything came to light.
“I just remember yelling at the kids to get towels and to do everything we could to stop it, but it was too much.”
‘I just took the kids out and waited for the plumbers. There was nothing we could do.’
The woman said she was told the main cause of the blockages seemed to be people flushing wet wipes that couldn’t be flushed down the toilet.
They also warned him that sewage could even overflow from his kitchen sink if the blockages continued to occur.
The toilet overflowed for the first time on March 17, completely destroying the baseboards, flooring and the family’s new kitchen. The plumbers spent most of the day pumping sewage out of the house and clearing clogs inside the sewage main.
The woman said she was told the main cause of the blockages seemed to be people flushing wet wipes that couldn’t be flushed down the toilet (pictured: the hallway of the house after the overflowing toilet).
‘I know the council has sent letters to people to tell them about the dangers of flushing these wet wipes down the toilet, but they don’t listen.
“They’ve even knocked on people’s doors and they still don’t listen to them. You can’t educate people like that.”
MailOnline has contacted Thames Water for comment.
