this office is in Concord, not Charlotte, just saying...
we must be doing something wrong because it all worked out pretty okay for starting off as poop. my wife called septic blue because the outfit that did the previous pump out and inspection (before we bought the place) no longer exists. we got off to a rough start when they called my wife instead of me to say the tech was on his way - she was out of town for a couple days... got it straightened out and I met Nicholas at the house half an hour later. we located the vault, opened it up, and got rid of the wet and most of the sludge - cold weather really keeps the smell down.
we had a look at the system and discovered there's no effluent filter, the cover for the distribution box is split, the field is not draining correctly (no filter to confine the solids to the vault) and there's a lot of rootage in there as well...
so when it warms up a little next week I get to dig around to get the outflow flowing and maybe avoid a substantial cash outlay. shouldn't be more than about three days of shovel work, half a ton of gravel and maybe 60' of tile, possibly a lot less!
or I could spend a couple five thousand dollars and let someone else have all the fun. Nope..! read more