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Women use too much frigging water...
- Thread starter DMGun
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That bacteria crap eater stuff does work. The first house I bought had been vacant for a while before we bought it. The suck truck guy showed me the tank and it was 1/3 full of a solid block of Shiff. I asked him what I should do to get rid of it he said don't do anything other that using the bacteria. He did sell me a $100.00 pack of bacteria blocks the size of a baked potato. Once a month for 1yr, then some crap eater from H.D. 2.5yrs later had it pumped again, same guy showed me the tank and once pumped it was completely empty.
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Haha nice!
exactly my point, where did all those solids go?
Do what you like. I think the bacteria churn up the water and help clog up the field lines. Lint from wash water is worse. The solids have to go somewhere in some form. I'd perfer they settle out and pump the tank. I don't see the benefit of no solids in the tank.
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It is common to use a strainer on the outlet from the clothes washing machine to catch all the lint.
Our septic man does not pump tanks. He brings in someone else for that. That may be why he says you shouldn't have to pump your tank. Makes sense to me. I've lived most of my life using septic tanks and never have seen one pumped. Why would they be designed such that you have to dig up your yard ever 2 - 5 years?
Our septic man does not pump tanks. He brings in someone else for that. That may be why he says you shouldn't have to pump your tank. Makes sense to me. I've lived most of my life using septic tanks and never have seen one pumped. Why would they be designed such that you have to dig up your yard ever 2 - 5 years?
The bacteria eats the solids. Have you ever seen a drain field clogged from solids that were never kept in check? Sludge formed on the surface of the water from grease and other items send down the drains, sending the solids into the drain field when toilet flushed, cause it could not settle to the bottom. Its a whole eco system in that tank , and if not managed at some point you will be digging it up if left unchecked.
If you ever owned a boat or RV, check with them about RV clean they use in their tanks to get rid of the solids. We use it in our outhouse at deer camp and the solids are eaten. We can see it first hand when we return each weekend.Just trying to help others out that may not otherwise give a second thought. Sure you can say I never had to do anything to my septic system, but if you live there long enough, it will catch up to you or the next person who buys that house. Why take the chance of having to spend thousand to repair something when you can do preventive maintenance.JMHO
Hey, isn't there a group of people that find it very RUDE to shake with your left hand, and they never eat with their left hand. Now who was that....
been there! They gave us 60page books on what not to do...saw this in there...too funny.
What i am saying is that the solids leave the first chamber because they pass to the second chamber where they enter the field lines.
Why do they enter the second chamber?
Because they either fill up the first chamber from not pumping them out or they are kept in suspension from the bacterial action.
F.O.G float and easily flow over the dividing wall.
Storage tanks in rv's and slit trenches don't work in the same manner. Sure you want bacteria to break down the organics in those.
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