I’ve heard of people using Yeast in their Septic Tank (flushed in via toilet) anyone doing that? I make a lot of sourdough bread, and there’s much discard in maintaining the starter. Since it’s live cultures, I’m wondering if I should flush my discards?
6 years in I need a new motor on my septic tank. I did notice the wiring is not made for under ground. I am assuming against code when my house was built. If any professionals want to take a look at the yellow wiring.
Anyone know any where to get these motors fairly cheaper, septic company wants about 1 thousand for replacement.
Should I argue that the yellow wiring is not code to be buried? Not sure if that is causing the motor to burn out.
Long time lurker, first-time poster, moved into a home recently that was allegedly pumped prior to moving in. I’ve never had a septic, but want to confirm that’s what it is… oozing green liquid and when you move the sarcophagus it’s a gross black goo.
Guessing it’s not an artisan spring…
Tank pumped in June and is full again, it just rained 3 inches this week.
Should i get this pumped or wait until the water level to go back down?
Hey yall, we have two septic tanks, one for solid, one for liquids and a leach field. This systems age is unknown but so far there are no issues with the tanks (knock on wood). Two or three years ago we noticed a wet spot at the one end of the field and currently we have a full on effluent pond. I hate it. But every professional has said we must replace the entire field at a cost of $20-$50k we don’t have that kind of money floating around so the pond remains. Google said there are ways to fix it but professionals say no. Is this something we can do ourselves?
Edit to Answer a few question:
I’m located in Alberta, Canada. It’s pretty rural so any fix or replacement is going to be extremely costly.
Most companies just chatted with me about this issue, no one actually offered to investigate with a camera or jet the lines.
There is a solids and liquids tank. I believe the liquids is gray water and overflow. There are six lines about 20-25’ long. I haven’t exactly measured. Effluent pond sits at the end of one line.
Edit: After 17 replies... Thank-you thank-you thank-you for the advice and the jokes. Kept me from overreacting...
Original: Septic system is just 4 years old. Tank was pumped out 4 months ago. We've been very diligent about not putting grease down the drain. Recently my son started cooking. The no grease down the drain rule has been reviewed many times but he had a teenager moment and poured about 3 ounces of chicken grease down the drain last night. There are no symptoms that anything is wrong ( it was just last night)... but should we do anything. Should we get an extra pump out to be safe? And... who knows, he's probably sent the occasional tablespoon of oil down the drain with occasional cooking. Am I just overreacting? More about our system: there is an intermediate pump between the tank and the field too. The intermediate tank has to fill before the water gets pumped to the field.
I bought a house two years ago with a 1000 gallon two compartment concrete septic system, first time owning a septic system but had them at previous homes.
I currently have three people in the house, all adult, would it be reasonable to have four people there and pump more frequently? I looked around and most places online said 1250sq foot would be best, any input would be awesome!
I was mowing today and hit and broke a clean out cover at the end of my leach field. I noticed some water in the pipe about 2 feet down. Should these be dry, or is some water normal?