A woman has been left with a 30K bill and an ''uninhabitable'' house after sewage overflooded from her toilet.<br /><br />The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, was at her home in the UK with her five children when she noticed water overflowing from the downstairs loo.<br /><br />The water soon turned to thick brown sewage mixture of faeces and toilet paper which came pouring from her toilet and onto the bathroom floor.<br /><br />The whole downstairs the house was decimated including the bathroom, the hallway, the kitchen and the living room.<br /><br />The mum-of-five estimates that it could cost up to £30K to replace what she lost and complete the repairs needed.<br /><br />She said: "I think the damage would come to something like £30K if you include everything I've lost and the work that will need to be done.<br /><br />"I spent so long doing that house up and it is just heartbreaking watching it get completely ruined."<br /><br />The toilet first overflooded on March 17, completely destroying skirting boards, flooring and the family's brand new kitchen.<br /><br />Plumbers spent most of the day pumping the sewage out of the home and clearing the blockages inside the mains sewage pipe.<br /><br />But the next day, sewage overflooded from the toilet again, causing further damage. <br /><br />She said: "It was a mains sewage pipe that runs under my house that had clogged.<br /><br />"My property is at the lowest point so when the pressure built up. It all just came flooding out.<br /><br />"I just remember shouting to the kids to get towels to do whatever we could to stop it but there was too much.<br /><br />"I just got the kids out and waited for the plumbers. There wasn't anything we could do."<br /><br />The damage was such that the family had to evacuate and they have been staying at their grandmother's since.<br /><br />The woman was told that the root cause of the blockages appeared to be people flushing non-flushable wet wipes down their toilets.<br /><br />She was also warned that the sewage could even flood out of her kitchen sink if the blockages kept happening.<br /><br />The water company have since said they will fit a non-return valve in the sewage pipe to prevent this from happening again, although this is yet to happen.<br /><br />"I know the local council have sent letters to people to tell them about the dangers of flushing these wet wipes but they don't listen.<br /><br />"They've even had people go knocking on doors too and they still haven't listened- you can't educate people like that."<br /><br />The mum-of-five is now waiting for her insurance to see if they'll be able to cover the cost.
