Sewage Backup Cleanup in Suitland
A backup inside a WSSC-served house is cleaned as contaminated water once the blockage side is known.
Phones answered 24/7 across Suitland. Call for a clear price before any work starts.
Fastest: call (833) 490-5225. Or send this and we call you back.
Suitland is an inner Prince George's community inside the Beltway and served by WSSC Water. ZIP 20746 also carries mail for Camp Springs, Hillcrest Heights and Silver Hill. The county reports its recent flooding is mostly flash flooding from intense local storms. Call (833) 490-5225. Calls are answered 24/7.
Suitland is an inner Prince George's community inside the Beltway, served by WSSC Water. Its mail uses ZIP 20746 and ZIP 20752, and the same ZIP also serves Camp Springs, Hillcrest Heights and Silver Hill. That means a caller may give a neighboring town as their address, and Brandywine Water Damage Restoration confirms the street before sending a technician from Brandywine.
Because the community is built up and served by public water and sewer, a Suitland loss usually starts inside the house: a supply line, a water heater, a washer or a backed-up drain. The technician still checks the ground around the house, because the county's recent flooding has mostly been storm water rather than a river.
A backup inside a WSSC-served house is cleaned as contaminated water once the blockage side is known.
Flash flooding from a short, intense storm is the usual route into a Suitland basement.
Supply lines that fail inside finished walls are a common in-house cause, and they show first as a stain.
Washers, dishwashers and ice makers are frequent sources of a slow leak that goes unnoticed for a while.
Summer thunderstorms and tropical-storm remnants bring the short, intense flash floods that cause most of Prince George's County's flooding, and winter freezes bring the pipe breaks, so the season decides which water problems are most likely in Brandywine.
ZIP 20746 carries more than Suitland. Camp Springs, Hillcrest Heights and Silver Hill mail through Suitland ZIPs, so an address that reads Suitland may not be inside the community's boundary. The technician asks for the street and the cross street, because the work and the permit office depend on where the house actually sits, not on the post office name.
The county reports that its recent flooding is mostly flash flooding from intense local storms, which overwhelms drainage rather than rising from a mapped floodplain. For an inner-county community, that usually means water comes into a basement through the floor drain, the window well or a wall crack during a short, hard storm, even on a lot that has never flooded.
The county's flood maps are older than that pattern. The first county flood map dates from 1972, its latest revised panels from 1996, and a preliminary countywide map from 2016, so a map record is not a guarantee about a house.
WSSC Water clears a blockage on its own side of the line at no charge. The homeowner pays for clearing the house side first, and claims for a backup WSSC caused go to its claims office. Your own policy covers a backup only with the water and sewer backup endorsement.
If it's an emergency, call now. For non-urgent service in Suitland, send the form and we'll call you back.
Suitland ZIP codes we cover: 20746, 20752. Type yours to confirm, or just call.
ZIP 20747
ZIP 20748, 20757
ZIP 20746, 20762
ZIP 20745, 20750
The permit and sewer questions depend on the house's location, not its mailing ZIP. Give the technician the street address, and ask WSSC or the county about the permit for the address you give.
WSSC clears a blockage on its own side of the line at no charge. The house side is the homeowner's, and the plumber for that side is paid first. A claim for a backup WSSC caused goes to its claims office.
A standard policy generally excludes flood and groundwater seepage. Check whether your policy has a flood endorsement or a separate flood policy, and keep photographs and dates for the insurer.
As soon as you see it. Stop the source if you can, move belongings out of the wet area and call (833) 490-5225. Earlier drying usually means less damage to the framing and floors.