SEPTIC SYSTEM 101
As I have stated before in previous posts/blogs/articles, so many people don’t really know how their wastewater systems work. Because they don’t know how they work, they don’t understand simple “dos” and “don’ts” of a septic system. I totally get it! Until I got drug into this business I never pondered what happened every time I flushed. I doubt […]
ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS – there’s more than just septic and lagoons!
So, I have written several posts about traditional septic items – how about something septic related but on the side of “new” or “advanced”? (Technically it’s not really new…but it is new to Nebraska!) Did you know technology exists to clean up your wastewater better than ever? For years, the main treatment of septic wastewater […]
PERC TESTS — because we thought boredom needed a new challenge…
If you’re building in the country, something you might not know is you have install a wastewater system – or a place for all your wastewater to go. In town, there is plumbing and city sewers to take care of all that, but if you build in the country you have to provide your own sewer […]
Why Maintenance Programs? Because of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my memory the most…that’s why!
Grandma used to say “my ‘forgetter’ works better than anything else I got!” As I get older, I totally see where Grandma was coming from. Wow…why is it so hard to remember things? The other day I was reading an article (non-septic related – shocker, I know…) about memory loss and a recent study that found […]
MOTHER NATURE and YOUR SEPTIC SYSTEM
Nebraska is one of those fortunate states that gets to experience all four seasons every year. Our springs are typically cool and wet, summers hot and dry, crisp falls, and cold, snowy winters. During any one of these seasons, we can experience extreme weather. For instance, the fall of 2018 was extremely rainy and led into a winter […]
BUILDING A NEW HOME and PLANNING FOR YOUR SEPTIC SYSTEM
You and your spouse just bought some land. Both of you are excited about building and looking at floor plans. You are dreaming about different flooring and bathroom tiles, while your husband is designing his new shop/outbuilding with built in man-cave. You find yourself a builder and that’s it! Right? Well, sort of…. Now I know it isn’t […]
SEPTIC TANK PUMPING….we want to PUMP, YOU OUT!!
I may be showing my age here, but whenever I talk about septic tank pumping I can’t help but think of the old Saturday Night Live skit with Hanz and Franz….they were there to “Pump, YOU UP!” Now here it is some 20 years later and with this post, I feel like I’m writing to […]
LATERALS….know them, love them, but leave them alone
Today I will elaborate on the septic system drainfield and the best way to care for it. In the diagram above, you can see all the components of a septic system. There is a tank and a leachfield/drainfield. When I talk to customers, many of them are confused as to what makes up a septic system. I would […]
TOILET PAPER — friend or foe?
Toilet paper has gotten a lot of press lately with its insane disappearing act from grocery store shelves. Heck, even I have gotten in on the action with all the toilet paper memes! But I do actually have some important tips to share about this necessary substance that we use to wipe the most disgusting […]
WATER USAGE and your SEPTIC SYSTEM
So, if you read my previous ever-so-eloquently-written-wastewater-post from last week…You’ll notice the first thing I mentioned when avoiding septic system “messes” was WATER USAGE. Today, I’m going to elaborate on that. I had written how septic systems are sized according to the number of bedrooms. It is assumed that there is at least one person […]