There’s the containment aspect. The safety aspect. The technical aspect. And that’s not even taking into consideration the intangibles.
There’s a lot that goes into a typical sewage cleanup job, from containing the affected area so that there’s no cross contamination, to protecting yourself from exposure to fecal matter and blood borne pathogens, to dealing with adjusters who just want to pay you for a Category 1 or 2 loss when you’re unquestionably dealing with a Category 3 loss, (for more on this, see Dave Dybdahl’s story on Pg. 22) to knowing where to dump any sewage you’ve extracted.