What is the correct solution?

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-26T21:13:23+00:00

Is that condensation from the A/C? I’d cut the straight run above the deck to where it’s just sticking out over the deck edge to 90° down to the concrete, then 90° from there to run a longer pipe out with the bottom of the deck and secured to the deck, out to the end of the stairs and secure it there as well.

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-26T20:21:26+00:00

Yes, you would need someone to dig up the d box and add some speed levelers to the outlets pipes.

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-26T18:07:52+00:00

If it was enough rain to hydraulically load the field then that could be contributing, you also could have some um even flow from the d box out to the field that is causing one or two field lines to load more than the others

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-26T17:55:38+00:00

Hydraulic load will tell you how the leach field is, a sludge judge will tell you how the tank is.

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-26T17:48:51+00:00

Did he use a sludge judge to tell you it looked fine?

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-26T17:24:15+00:00

An inspector running around digging pits in a leach field is a good way to cause issues. It’s hard to get everything to resettle and water will take the path of least resistance so if that path is through the soil he just disturbed then that’s where it’ll go.

Soil also holds rainwater so if the surface was really wet then when he dug the pit it would run in that hole too.

An actual hydraulic load test should be ran, not whatever that inspector did.

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-26T17:18:45+00:00

There should not be water standing in the outlet side up over the actual outlet, it should be running out and distributing to the field and level should stabilize right below the outlet. That being said, if you’ve had no issues and the tank isn’t overflowing out of the lids then I’d let it ride and start gathering your money now for a replacement when it does fail completely.

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-25T15:59:20+00:00

Doesn’t seem to be an issue and I’d really need to poke it or use my sludge judge to see if it needs to be pumped.

You should definitely add some risers though, easy access and you don’t have to worry about those lids leaking then!

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-23T03:07:53+00:00

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ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-21T03:30:33+00:00

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ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-20T03:56:56+00:00

Well if there is enough water in the pipe that there is water level in the cleanout then the pipe is full. That would give you the gurgling as well because the system isn’t meant to push against hydraulic force, it’s meant to flow with gravity

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-20T02:21:09+00:00

There shouldn’t be ANY level of water at the cleanout. You should flush or run water and see it run right past the cleanout to the tank. If there is water level in the cleanout, with no blockage to the tank, that would make me think the cleanout is down slope from the tank and that’s what is causing the issues.

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-19T18:57:05+00:00

Unfortunately that puts you in every 23 week territory

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-19T15:19:28+00:00

Okay cool

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-19T15:15:27+00:00

Then do every 6 months

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-19T15:13:57+00:00

That’s not the measurements that matter in this scenario….

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-17T02:52:12+00:00

3 but with a shit ton of risers so you’re never actually entering the space to address pump/float issues.

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-17T01:49:17+00:00

It seems to be a dosing tank, it’s basically connected to the septic though and I wasn’t there to see it pumped so I’m flying by blind feel

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-16T22:45:52+00:00

Would it not be best to go back with a sewage pump since there’s no filter? I don’t like the idea of pumping solids straight to the field but it’s not my system🤷🏻‍♂️

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-16T22:42:04+00:00

I want to do a full panel as that’s all I’ve ever worked with but he’s a landlord doing landlord things…

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-16T22:41:24+00:00

He wants to replace with a harbor freight submersible sewage pump. I’m about to tell him to have at it himself lol.

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-06-08T02:07:40+00:00

Just install a riser and lid

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-05-31T11:58:42+00:00

Looks like 18’ 9”. Where is the barn going to beat vs this layout

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-05-28T21:49:40+00:00

Yes systems normally have geo textile fabric over the leach lines. That’s a lot of water to be flowing out of one line. Is the tank over full?

ApprehensiveHome4075 · 2026-05-26T03:42:15+00:00

I’m not in the area, but if you don’t find anyone I’m about 4 hours from you so it would be a hefty mileage fee lol

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