School me on septic systems

[TJC44]

Twice per year, go to the hardware store and buy a bottle of the poop-eating bacteria. Flush the toilet bugs down the toilet furthest from the septic tank and you should be good to go. Beyond that, just don't drive a cement truck over the top of the septic tank.

Or a fire truck. Yes, it's happened. No, I was not driving.

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[Deebo]

In NM we call the fields leach lines.
A septic tank inspection only checks the integrity of tank, any property sale in NM, the land seller is responsible for a "county code compliant" tank, meaning, that the dwelling must have X amount of gallons for X amount of bathrooms and house occupants. ( A damn rip Off when you own land).
As a buyer, if its not to late, have them run a camera down your leach lines, to check for smashed or broken pipes, and root damage. It should only be another 100 or so on the inspection.
And, as stated, nothing goes in that isn't poop or pee, and if you can, run your grey water off.
NO cigarette butts, condoms, tampons, wet wipes or the damn plastic applicator deals from tampons..
Only pump out if neccessary, because like stated, you loose all the good bacteria.
My new house has an "Above ground tank" and I still haven't figured it out.
Good luck with that shower hair..
Get those little screens, and be sure to get the little plastic ziptie things that grab hair and yank them from the traps.

[Sparkyprep]

Looks like everything I was going to say has already been said.

[Innkeeper]

I have been in my house 5 years now and have not had to pump or (knock on wood) any problems. I have had a maple pop up in the middle of my drain field which I cut down right away to protect my septic. Luckily it is just me and the dogs with an occasional visitor so not a tin going in like many in my family. I also am happy not to be on city water and sewer and not close enough to worry in my lifetime.


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[Sasquatch]

Thank you gents. You are all a wealth of information and I will put it to good use along this new journey. I'll be dusting off this thread in the future if I have question because I know you all have the answers.

[Dwight55]

I have been in my house 5 years now and have not had to pump or (knock on wood) any problems. I have had a maple pop up in the middle of my drain field which I cut down right away to protect my septic. Luckily it is just me and the dogs with an occasional visitor so not a tin going in like many in my family. I also am happy not to be on city water and sewer and not close enough to worry in my lifetime.


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Actually, . . . there is a big difference of opinion about your treatment of that maple, . . . and what the effect really is.

If that maple is not putting a tap root big enough to totally block the entire line and the gravel bed (3 ft tall, . . . 12 inches wide), . . . then you did more harm cutting it than leaving it.

Leaving it, . . . it would have put out enough roots to have sucked up 3 or 4 times the output of your septic every day, . . . once it matured, . . . and would never have put enough roots down there to obstruct anything.

Roots only obstruct when they get into the pipe leading from the house to the tank, . . . after the tank, . . . they are more beneficial than they are a detriment.

Got that from the guys that do poopy pipes for a living.

May God bless,
Dwight

[Inor]

Or a fire truck. Yes, it's happened. No, I was not driving.

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That's a BAD day! First your house burns down then the Fire Department comes along and crushes your septic tank! I hope you don't tell us the next chapter in this is the cops came along and shot his dog for barking at them?!?

[BucketBack]

My 2nd tile field is 10 years old and has been pumped 3 times, with all the wimmen that were here.

Now by myself, it'll be a minute before it gets pumped out again.

The 1st tile field is 40 years old and I have a switch to change between the two each year. There is also a filter in the 40 year old tank to satisfy new code.

[TJC44]

That's a BAD day! First your house burns down then the Fire Department comes along and crushes your septic tank! I hope you don't tell us the next chapter in this is the cops came along and shot his dog for barking at them?!?

No, but it was interesting watching the HD wrecker trying to pull the truck out. It was winter.

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