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FallbrookFarmer
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Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?
Thanks to all who participated. My Hypothesis was proved out!
Thanks to all who participated. My Hypothesis was proved out!
tulenutn2o
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Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?
Which was....................................we are all full of POO?:laughing:
Which was....................................we are all full of POO?:laughing:
horsebroke
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Since I'm outside the city limits I'm on a septc system (in Western Colorado). And my last 2 homes (texas and Virginia) were both in the coutntry and on Sepic/Well.
Since I'm outside the city limits I'm on a septc system (in Western Colorado). And my last 2 homes (texas and Virginia) were both in the coutntry and on Sepic/Well.
Patriotic Stabilist
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Septic with Leech field
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Think we may have a new well drilled this summer. They are talking all kinds of surface water usage in our area, its coming. So I want the new well installed before it costs even more. I got an estimate last year for a cased well, concrete time, etc of $10k. Ouch Hubby said we really need to do it this year. Our well is still good, has been the 20 years we are out here but it will eventually sand in at the bottom or pipe rust or something so we want to be ready. I can use the new one to water the garden, yard etc till we need it for the house.
Septic with Leech field
Water well
Think we may have a new well drilled this summer. They are talking all kinds of surface water usage in our area, its coming. So I want the new well installed before it costs even more. I got an estimate last year for a cased well, concrete time, etc of $10k. Ouch Hubby said we really need to do it this year. Our well is still good, has been the 20 years we are out here but it will eventually sand in at the bottom or pipe rust or something so we want to be ready. I can use the new one to water the garden, yard etc till we need it for the house.
tulenutn2o
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Septic with leach field here. Rural water-comes from the city aquafier and costs 3 times as much.
czechsonofagun
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Septic and a field too.
dmccarty
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Grrrr.
Such a system in my area would be $20-30K! Which makes NO sense. I remember years back discussions with Bird and other TBNers about their septic systems. The systems were cheap down there and built with gold up here.
We used to own a lot that would require a Low Pressure Pipe system that I was told would cost $15K. I had a design from an engineer and there just was not much to the system. One did not need a license to install a system and for the prices being quoted I figure I could install one about 3 times before I got to 15K. :confused2:
That lot has is on the market again and the septic rules changed on them so that the old permitted system is no longer valid. :confused2::laughing:
Oh, we are on septic. Conventional that was just pumped after five years for $175ish.
Back up is the woods. Don't need no stink'n Outhouse. Which is still legal as far as I know. The state regulations had the design specs for an Outhouse when I last read them. :laughing:
Later,
Dan
Grrrr.
Such a system in my area would be $20-30K! Which makes NO sense. I remember years back discussions with Bird and other TBNers about their septic systems. The systems were cheap down there and built with gold up here.
We used to own a lot that would require a Low Pressure Pipe system that I was told would cost $15K. I had a design from an engineer and there just was not much to the system. One did not need a license to install a system and for the prices being quoted I figure I could install one about 3 times before I got to 15K. :confused2:
That lot has is on the market again and the septic rules changed on them so that the old permitted system is no longer valid. :confused2::laughing:
Oh, we are on septic.
Conventional that was just pumped after five years for $175ish. Back up is the woods. Don't need no stink'n Outhouse. Which is still legal as far as I know. The state regulations had the design specs for an Outhouse when I last read them. :laughing:
Later,
Dan
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gotrocks
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Since you brought this up here is my post from 2006
Here is my little out house. I just covers the valves to the pipe running to the pond.
Was Googling around and found a site that stated the moon on the door was originally for ladies and the men's had a star. Theory is that ladies took better care of theirs than men did therefore; you just don't see many with stars on the door. (Except in Hollywood):laughing:
Then there was this extended family that decided it was time to move the outhouse. Just so happened the well drillers had been working for a couple of weeks and had gone down 600 feet still no water. So they gave up for the time being. Well the young sons whose job it was to relocate the outhouse decided it would save a lot of diging to just move the old house over the dry well.
Next morning Grandpa was not at the breakfast table. After a considerable time they found him in the outhouse, dead. The coroner said cause of death was Asphyxiation. The family wondered how that could have happened, the outhouse was well ventilated. Then one of the son's remembered, Grandpa always held his breath until he heard the first splash.
Here is my little out house. I just covers the valves to the pipe running to the pond.
Was Googling around and found a site that stated the moon on the door was originally for ladies and the men's had a star. Theory is that ladies took better care of theirs than men did therefore; you just don't see many with stars on the door. (Except in Hollywood)
:laughing:Then there was this extended family that decided it was time to move the outhouse. Just so happened the well drillers had been working for a couple of weeks and had gone down 600 feet still no water. So they gave up for the time being. Well the young sons whose job it was to relocate the outhouse decided it would save a lot of diging to just move the old house over the dry well.
Next morning Grandpa was not at the breakfast table. After a considerable time they found him in the outhouse, dead. The coroner said cause of death was Asphyxiation. The family wondered how that could have happened, the outhouse was well ventilated. Then one of the son's remembered, Grandpa always held his breath until he heard the first splash.
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Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?
I remember that Dan. When I first saw your post back then, I thought you had made a typo. What a shocker!:confused2:
Grrrr.
Such a system in my area would be $20-30K! Which makes NO sense. I remember years back discussions with Bird and other TBNers about their septic systems. The systems were cheap down there and built with gold up here.
I remember that Dan. When I first saw your post back then, I thought you had made a typo. What a shocker!:confused2:
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My house in the Rockies where I live most of the time is on Septic with a Gravity Leech Field and I have a Private Well with great tasting water. My house in Calif is City Sewer and City Water. My house in Chile is City Sewer and City Water.
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tulenutn2o
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There's a joke lurking in there about the house in Chile'. I'll let it be.
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There's a joke lurking in there about the house in Chile'. I'll let it be.
Actually not. My wife left for a relaxing 3 months in Chile just before the 8.8 quake hit. Over 380 earthquakes later she is ready to come back to CA.
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Neither, we are on genuine cesspool. A nice round 6 ft diameter hole about 14+ ft deep with a nice concrete cap with a cleanout.
What a scam. The county/state require each one to be designed by an engineer. Basically they all use the same drawing and collect around $300 for their professional stamp
Note for the curious - cesspools aren't legal everywhere, smaller properties/other locations require septic. Very little municipal sewer here.
David
What a scam. The county/state require each one to be designed by an engineer. Basically they all use the same drawing and collect around $300 for their professional stamp
Note for the curious - cesspools aren't legal everywhere, smaller properties/other locations require septic. Very little municipal sewer here.
David
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Glad to hear the Mrs. is OK. 380? Are you serious? Wow!
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Aerobic for us. Works well. so far. 3 months since installation. $3.00/month for chlorine and whatever the pump uses for electricity. 2 year warranty/maintenance contract came with the deal.
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Septic here.
Am I the only one man enough to admit that I peeked in after reading the title of the thread to see what the answers were?
Am I the only one man enough to admit that I peeked in after reading the title of the thread to see what the answers were?
mostly_gas
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20 years on septic, now on muni sewer what a racket, they charge me for the privilege of processing my poo:confused2:
what a racket, they charge me for the privilege of processing my poo:confused2:
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Lacal
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Septic and am in the process of upgrading to a new system since my wife decided to add an additional bathroom. The current one is 1,000 gals and one leach field. The new one will be 1500 gals and three fields. Estimated cost will be 5K.
As an aside. I couldn't be happier since I fled a small Massachusetts city where my sewer bill was almost 1K per year.
Also, now have private well so no more paying for city water that is treated and laced with floride.
As an aside. I couldn't be happier since I fled a small Massachusetts city where my sewer bill was almost 1K per year.
Also, now have private well so no more paying for city water that is treated and laced with floride.
niemeyjt
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Here we have to dig a test hole and unless water drains in a set amount of time, a septic tank is not allowed. We are on clay, so all new systems that go in are aerobic (Klargester), as they do not make the timescales. The Klargester we had at previous house needed an annual service and 6 monthly emptying of solids from solid tank. It did discharge clean water to the ditch though.
At current house we have three tanks in series that then drain via weeper drains under the field, two take solids, the third tends to catch any water that flows back in from the weeper drains.
We have only emptied tanks once when moved in - so 9 years ago. Since then it just seems to disolve itself and breakdown. We would not now be allowed this system on a new build.
My personal thinking is the best system would be a combination of the two - septic tanks to catch and disolve the solids (to eliminate 6 monthly empty) feeding an aerobic (Klargester) system to purify the water.
J
At current house we have three tanks in series that then drain via weeper drains under the field, two take solids, the third tends to catch any water that flows back in from the weeper drains.
We have only emptied tanks once when moved in - so 9 years ago. Since then it just seems to disolve itself and breakdown. We would not now be allowed this system on a new build.
My personal thinking is the best system would be a combination of the two - septic tanks to catch and disolve the solids (to eliminate 6 monthly empty) feeding an aerobic (Klargester) system to purify the water.
J
