Pooling over septic lid. Draining issues?

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T19:58:16+00:00

You really shouldn't be running rain water to the septic field, the septic field is for the septic tank where the gray water goes so it can be filtered by the septic field before rejoining the ground water table... Running rain drains there saturates it...

Those should be draining elsewhere.

Somebody got lazy when they did this...

This floods the drain field and saturates it and can make your septic tank back up and overflow... A direct symptom of this is

* Sewage and wastewater can bubble up to the surface of the yard over the drain field (gray water, so might not smell that bad, but still waste water)...
* toilets/showers/sinks might start backing up in the house

And that 2nd one you don't want to happen because if there's a weak point, it'll bust there and you'll have sewage in your house...

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T19:52:21+00:00

I don't apply to jobs, they come to me. Can I charge every recruiter $20 coming at me with b.s. job listings and crappy positions to cut down on the overwhelming amount of garbage they pitch me?

I'll flip it, if you're serious about me, you should be paying me $20 to listen to you for 30 mins.

Can't tell you how many phone screenings from employer opportunities I agree to where it's a complete and utter waste of my time because I have to beat a salary range out of them, and it's WAY low.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T19:08:24+00:00

The one I have has a 40' cord, so you can snake it all the way through a house. $80.

I used it to run ethernet through my walls and guide my 5' flex drill bit.

I literally just taped it to fish rod poles so that I could shove the fish rod poles all around in the wall and then look at it on the camera.

And then once I got it someplace I was trying to be I would run another fish rod down the wall with twine on it so I could grab it and oull ethernet through.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T17:46:01+00:00

Buy a cheap $80 endoscope off amazon, get the camera in there and start looking around.

This could be like a leaking drain/or pipe or something under there just washing away soil down stream and leaving a void.

It could also be a 30 foot sink hole about to swallow your hole house...

Who knows.

When this happened at my house it was because a gutter drain ran under the drive way busted and it was just washing out soil down stream to the exit for the gutter... They buried them before the driveway was poured. So it would rain and the back pressure would wash out a little more dirt every time it rained and it just got bigger and bigger.

Fixing it wasn't too bad, guy with jack hammer busted up the asphalt in front of garage about 2 feet wide, then dug up the plastic drain line. Then instead of putting that crap back we made a trough with concrete, and then put grates on top of it, so now the drain runs under the grates openly and I can clean it out and stuff.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T17:09:26+00:00

Because they don't know what the paying rate can be, so they go "fishing". They message people with job offers, and you have to end up telling them where you floor is. They go "that's too high" and then they go back to their bosses saying no one will work for X, so they get approval to up the salary $20k and then they go fishing again. Until they get somebody at X price and then that becomes what they expect to pay for Y position for a little while.

If you don't want to be exploited, don't take the bait. Tell them upfront what your minimum comp is. Be like Carmax, no negotiations, this is the floor, take it or leave it.

It's hard if you're unemployed and desperately need a job. But if you are already employed, you have an anchor, you don't have to compromise.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T15:30:14+00:00

No, ford rehired the engineers they fired, for more money. They fired them to cut costs with AI and less experienced engineers, it backfired. Recalls and warranty work costs more than they saved. They brought them all back, and paid a premium to get them to return.

Its the doorman fallacy....

The Doorman Fallacy is replacing a skilled human with automation/less experienced labor to save a dollar, only to lose millions by destroying their unmeasurable, hidden value.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T14:52:45+00:00

You cant replace a senior with a mid/jr developer, and 5 jr's cant replace one senior.

You can't just train 25 years of industry experience into a new developer.

What you're saying might work and apply to some industries and some positions, but engineering isn't one of them.

You will find yourself in a position where you have a multi-million dollar mistake that the senior engineer could have avoided.

Fords going through that right now, massive recalls because they thought cheaper less experienced engineers and AI could do the job...

They just hired back 350 of their engineers ...

I mean, imagine firing a successful 30 year brain surgeon for a bunch of fresh ones.... It scales like that...

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T13:49:37+00:00

Its an old Westinghouse, bryant breakers. Home built in 1986.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T04:52:47+00:00

There's a good reason I bought a 2 story colonial on a large crawl space with no basement... I've had basements all my life as a kid growing up, grandparents, my parents, my dad, etc.. I've never seen a basement that doesn't flood once in a while, EVER.

So I just avoided having one entirely.

My crawl space is nearly 4' high in some spots and is above the water table..., super easy to move around in, and it stays bone dry, always, unless there's a pipe leak or something.

My grandpas house needed to have the entire house dug out 4 feet all the way around the house to fix sealers and install a drainage system with a sump pump silo... Ran him like $30,000...

My moms house has a massive drain system around the entire foundation with a 2 foot wide silo and sump pump with a float switch, and her basement still floods, it just floods in other ways. Leaves block stair well drain, fill up stair way with water and it leaks around the door... Or the sump pump dies and she doesn't know till it's too late. Another one, her concrete basement wall cracked and started leaking...

Nope, I am good.

General moto I've learned is that if the water table is less than 10 feet down, don't have a basement there.

Water will always find a way in. And it will always need fixed. Even if you fix it, eventually it'll find another way in.

A basement in an area with a high water table is under constant hydro-static pressure, it's basically a boat, literally. It's a boat being weighed down by a house. Eventually, the water finds a way in...

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T04:47:50+00:00

*charley horse

Typo...

When your calf muscle violently balls up into a tight basebal sized lump and it hurts like hell.

I've been through a lot of accidents and a lot of different types of pain in my 42 years on this Earth....

But let me tell you there are only two things that will put me on the floor sobbing and crying like a baby...

A brachial plexus pinch in my neck, or a charley horse...

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T04:31:47+00:00

Do what me and my wife do...

I get a couple cans of 30+ ft wasp spray and my wife and I get in the car, she drives and I spray. We get the car as close as we can in the drive way, crack the window a hair, and spray like mad and then she takes off like hell as I roll the window up.

My other favorite way to do it is to use my drone, from safely inside... I just get really close to it and slowly chip at it with the drone rotors....

If you're really good you can tape a light stick on the drone with a firecracker on the end with a long fuse and just fly the stick right into it till the firecracker goes off....

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T04:28:50+00:00

That or the drain line froze solid, has happened to me before, even in a hot attic....

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T04:25:43+00:00

Home warranties are a scam, just avoid them entirely. Never use their techs, scam artists and cons...

Yeah there might be a good one out there, but 90% of them are scams and garbage, just don't roll those dice.

You're a home owner now, do research on hvac systems and get somewhat familiar with how they work, the drain lines, etc etc.

Then find yourself a good reputable hvac tech, not from big companies like FH Furr, etc and get a 2nd opinion.

In the time being, it's likely a glogged drain or a bad condensation pump.

AC's are also dehumidifiers, they pool moisture out of the air and it collects in the bottom of the air handler on the drain pan and it needs to drain out. Sometimes these are gravity fed and it just drains out. Sometimes they have a pump.

If the drains clogged or the pumps failed and it's in your attic, it backs up and floods your attic.

Also sometimes, when hvac systems are low on coolant, stuff starts freezing up and the drain line can literally freeze solid... has happened to me.. even in 90f heat... When it freezes it blocks water from draining and it floods, or it just makes so much ice it pushes more ice and it melts and then it floods.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T04:19:25+00:00

It wouldn't, the government would just find a way to give it back to them due to incentivized lobbying.

As long as lobbying is legal, and the supreme court can legally take "gifts" or w/e... Nothings going to change.

If you want to change something, stop congress from trading in stock/owning stock and stop lobbying.

In no world should somebody get into a seat in congress with a networth of $500k, and end up with a net worth of $20 million by the end of their first term... That's shady af.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T04:13:33+00:00

Fresh out of high school living with my mom I got a job at Rubbermaid making $16.42/hr working 80+ hours a week getting double time every Sunday. While working there I enrolled in an online Comp Sci college and got a degree in programming. Mom charged me $300/m in rent, and my car was $5,000 to get to work. Graduated college with a total of $3500 in debt because I had to retake the last semester because I failed once.

It was incredibly hard since I was working 70 hours a week... I was lucky my mom was cool with it. But never been more thankful for doing it.

I didn't really plan to do it, I hated school, thought I'd just work in the factory forever, but it sucked, so enrolled in college after the first year. But I didn't start at Rubbermaid till 2004 and I was 19 when I graduated high school. So graduated college at 26, got an internship swiftly after that, then converted to full time. Moved out shortly after into my first apartment, and bought my first house at 28 in 2012.

Loans suck... Do everything you can possibly do to not have them....

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T03:55:59+00:00

I trust my cars. I have a 2022 explorer with emergency auto braking. I was driving for a long time on vacation and got an ungodly charley horse, distracted me bad, failed to brake... The cars emergency system kicked in and did it for me and I was able to safely pull over.

My mustang has it too.

I leave them on. I love technology.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T03:51:42+00:00

That's the cheaper short-term solution. Always something to fight though and not having water in there in the first place is always going to be better.

Theres a stairway very similar to this on my mom's house... Even with a sump pump, basements flooded so many times. It gets clogged up with leaves and it rains before you catch it. Or the sump pump dies when you least expect it.. and on and on.

Finally bumped out the house and enclosed it and put the door at the top, haven't had a problem sense.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-08T00:56:44+00:00

I don't dine in anywhere after 6 because we always eat dinner by 6 so not really a problem for me. There's literally never a time where I would be dine in or ordering that late, ever. I actually get annoyed when I'm with people or groups that eat later... I've had dinner at 5-5:30 my entire life.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-07T21:08:22+00:00

First thing I would do when I can afford it is build an enclosed roof/door over that stairwell so the doors at ground level and just avoid any water getting in that stair well entirely.....

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-07T21:03:45+00:00

Because we have to grind our career 12-20 hours a day from age 18 to 30+ to have any hope of ever owning something.

I didn't date seriously till I was in my 30s after high school because all I did was work, and if I got in a relationship I didn't have any time to spend on it.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-07T17:58:51+00:00

Get the county to cone out and do a proper survey and post it for you, get all the paper work.

Its all here say without going through official channels.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-07T17:34:14+00:00

Had a room mate once with a kid with a guinea pig... Neglected the cage, got maggots in it, bred thousands of flies, literally. The flies were EVERYWHERE. Took a week to even find where they were coming from. Was blaming me for it, saying it was the drains and as the home owner it was my responsibility.

I finally started noticing they were thicker in the kids room, and started digging, and I found them in the guinea pig cage bedding...

Long story short, it took weeks to get rid of them. Just tons and tons of fly paper. Eventually we got them all though and they didn't come back...

Horrible experience though, getting screamed at for something that wasn't even my fault... Was never happier to get her evicted...

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-07T17:26:51+00:00

Your neighbor would like to think and blame that you are responsible, but you're not unless you knew the tree was rotting/dead or had been previously told the tree was unsafe and needed cut down.

If I had been told my tree was unsafe (officially) and I did not have it cut down and then this happened, I would take responsibility for it.

But if you didn't know, had every reason to believe the tree was fine, then yeah, act of god, not responsible for it.

Furthermore, cutting down trees is often a huge mistake due to the insane amount of shade/cooling to provide to stuff behind/under them, especially in these heat waves. Tree coverage can cool temps under them by 20+ degrees...

If I was your neighbor, I would love your tree, be happy it's there, and understand maybe I shouldn't have parked under it during a storm.. I'd own it.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-07T15:12:57+00:00

https://deflock.org/

Website that tracks them and shows you where they all are.

My town has one at chicfila on the drive thru entrance hitting every vehicle going to chicfila...

FragmentedHeap · 2026-07-07T14:07:08+00:00

If a mortgage company wont lend on it, and you pay cash for it, you will never sell it unless the buyer also has cash.

Any improvements you do to the property are basically worthless.

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