Being a homeowner can be a tough thing sometimes. What is even more tough is when you start dealing with septic systems. They plug up, they refused to drain, the tank gets full.... and all sorts of wonderful challenging things happen. We recently went through a stint where our septic wasn't doing well. We decided the tank was full and wanted to have it pumped. This was after my husband had gotten intimately involved with snaking out the line from the house to the tank... then from the tank into what he thought was the house line. At the same time, since we live on a corner property, some jackass had probably gotten drunk, drove through our pasture, right through our drainfield and dukes of hazzard up and over our septic and out our driveway - potentially causing a whole host of issues. So, after not being able to fix it ourselves, we figured we'd call a pro and have them pump it so we could at least see what the issue was.
I asked around to my friends at work (who all live in the boonies and deal with this topic often) and got a recommendation for a company that was local. They came out friday, and wow... I didn't know I was signing up for a college course in poo 101. First off, our tank didn't need to be pumped. That was great news because its horribly expensive. We have, it seems 3-5 years left to leave deposits before it becomes necessary. Secondly, the sneaky thing had three chambers... baffled... off either side of the main tank we weren't aware of. So... in essence, we pulled the drain field side of it, and that was functioning perfectly. We pulled the house side, and whallah... after having problems with it since around July, we found the issue. That baffled chamber was completely stuffed and compacted with material. Everything we were flushing was going into it, or trying, and not being able to get into the main tank itself.
The septic guy, a 31 year old homeboy with an absolute love of septic systems sat there and lectured...
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