Septic system filter plugs often

[mikester]

Whenever you put something into your tank, an equal amount of something has to come out.

If you have a 1,000 gallon tank, when you flush 3 gallons into it, 3 gallons go out.
If you have a 10,000 gallon tank, when you flush 3 gallons into it, 3 gallons go out.

1. Get your tanks pumped
2. Get a measure of solids and grease in your tank
3. Assess what you are putting into the tank. Seriously, pay attention to what EVERYONE in the household is putting into your septic system. This is YOUR sewage treatment system, not a bottomless black hole waste disposal system aka city sewage system. Condoms, tampons, and bacon grease don't magically disappear.

Remember the term "garbage in, garbage out"?

All a bigger tank will do is let you wait longer between problems.

 

[oosik]

As I previously said - get somebody out there that knows what they are doing. All the speculation in the world will not resolve this situation.

 

[herm0016]

Whenever you put something into your tank, an equal amount of something has to come out.

If you have a 1,000 gallon tank, when you flush 3 gallons into it, 3 gallons go out.
If you have a 10,000 gallon tank, when you flush 3 gallons into it, 3 gallons go out.

1. Get your tanks pumped
2. Get a measure of solids and grease in your tank
3. Assess what you are putting into the tank. Seriously, pay attention to what EVERYONE in the household is putting into your septic system. This is YOUR sewage treatment system, not a bottomless black hole waste disposal system aka city sewage system. Condoms, tampons, and bacon grease don't magically disappear.

Remember the term "garbage in, garbage out"?

All a bigger tank will do is let you wait longer between problems.

while true, the larger tank will turn less often and give each gallon of waste more time to digest/settle out. the gallon you put in is not the same gallon that is exiting at that time.

 

[the old grind]

Let's not leave out liquid fabric softeners as time bombs like the micro balloons & fibers. (use wool balls in dryer instead).

I would never send softener brine into a septic system. Salts & resin are sure to precipitate out in the worst places. (filters, fields) Drain to sump, or pipe out to dry well or to mineral lick for game watching.

I don't discharge laundry water to my septic either. Best laundry filter I've seen is dub'l layer pantyhose or similar. I've seen laundry discharged to sumps in areas where pumps run only briefly in Spring. I guess that keeps 'em running the rest of the year.

 

[oosik]

As long as laundry water is not, simply, discharged to the surface of the ground. It's a well known fact - laundry water contains the highest levels of bacterial and viral loading. FAR in excess of any other waste water generated from a household.

Reference: The Sanitarians Handbook - 4th Ed. Out of print but available in your local library.

 

[BigBlue1]

No laundry softener used.

 

[stonebriar126]

I think I would have a DIFFERENT septic company come look for the issue.

 

[Deere Dude]

I think I would have a DIFFERENT septic company come look for the issue.

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Pumpers always tell me after a good pumping and cleaning to throw some yeast down the toilet and as it goes into the tank it will cause a action that breaks stuff in the tank down.