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Originally Posted by Tiva
Ummmm Why? (Has has tank and pump issues) Cause if your fill beds and pump are working you only need your tank pumped about once a year to clean it out. If your pump isn't working it needs to be replaced first thing. Also. 300 for a pump is crazy! Our pump out was $125 for both the tank and the holding tank.
Talk Septic to me, I actually know shit.
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So the tank is for a 2bd 1 bath house. the previous owners house caught fire and they placed a 3 bd 2 bath modular home.
That is our first problem. BUT because of my mom's previous care of it, she actually never had to have it pumped in over 10 years (ridx every month, no grease or food down the drain, specific septic safe tp ect ect)
WELL WE currently have 7 peoples (5 adults and 2 kids) in the house, which is WAAAAAYYYY more then the septic can handle.
I got pumped before my friend sam came to live with us last year in august. (sam was only there for 4 months, and mostly was elsewhere anyways)
Well last week I started hearing gurgling in the drains, and yesterday morning woke up with poop in my bathtub. Look outside and there is water over the septic tank, and lo and behold every time I flush my toilet the water starts moving. . . . Gross.
SO for the pump, to pay people mom called 3 companies. One quoted us 550 (the one we went with and I payed most of it) another guy quoted her 840, and another 910.
Well, pump guy says "unofficially" he can tell us the biggest fix to our problem will be removing some people from the house, and after a few months the septic will actually fix itself. BUT until we do, we are just going to have the same problem again and again, and it is going to get worse every time.
If I did not want to remove people from the house, my only choice would be to upgrade the septic tank, which the next size up is apparently 15k to 20k in price.
I really don't understand how mom was able to keep it in such nice condition with never having it pumped before, but then again it was only her, my dad and I for most of it, then just her and dad, then just her. 10 of the years was 3 people though.