Khan
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Any idea how much it costs to have a septic tank pumped out?
+1It can be very location specific. Laws/regs vary be area, availability of land to dump it on (regs cover how this is handled) versus having to take it to a municipal treatment plant.
I don't think other answers will tell you much about your specific situation.
-ERD50
Wow.27 years and have never had to pump the septic tank so not sure what the cost is.
27 years and have never had to pump the septic tank so not sure what the cost is. I contribute that partly to the fact I do not put garbage into the system via a garbage disposer.
27 years and have never had to pump the septic tank so not sure what the cost is. I contribute that partly to the fact I do not put garbage into the system via a garbage disposer.
We don't but garbage in ours...27 years?
Not 'having' to do something is vastly different from what you 'should be' doing.
Sure, you can get away w/o pumping for a very long time. But you are sending unprocessed 'stuff' into the drain field. When the drain field fails, the cost will be much higher than pumping every 3 years or so (dependent on usage and size of tank).
Some other poster I think, talked about how he doesn't need to pump because he adds some bio-something every month. I posted numerous links of evidence that those likely do more harm than good - I don't think he ever responded.
I wonder if he got his tank pumped?
-ERD50
+1 if you don't pump it out you risk putting solids rather than just effluent into your leach field, plugging the leach field and having to put in either a replacement leach field or possibly a whole new septic system (tank and leach field).
In some situations, you may not have the space to replace the leach field and might need to put in a mound system somewhere else on the property.
IMO it is much better to spend a few hundred every few years to pump the septic tank than risk having to replace a leach field (or worse).
Like that old oil change commercial stated - "pay me now or pay me later". An oil change/engine rebuild is analogous to pumping the tank/replacing the leach field.
We are required by state law to contract with a licensed septic company to have our aerobic system inspected three times a year.Needless to say, I monitor it on a regular basis.