Drain backing up

[sapper83]

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the water coming out of your water softener does not have much "salt" , is has traded ions with the water and now has calcium chloride in it.. very good for your lawn..

Im not a chemist but that makes me feel better. I knew it traded ions and what not but in my thick skull i knew i dumped 4 bags of salt in then it was 4 bags of salt out lol

 

[HoughMade]

Oh the fun of septic problems. I had..."waste water" coming up in my lawn last fall down the length of one of my laterals. Turns out the D-Box was clogged and and was sending everything down that one lateral. I had the D-box dug up, cleaned out and the laterals all jetted. Then they did a treatment of the drain field as described in the video below. Different company, but the same treatment. Not cheap, but less expensive than a new drain field.

So far, so good.

 

[sapper83]

Oh the fun of septic problems. I had..."waste water" coming up in my lawn last fall down the length of one of my laterals. Turns out the D-Box was clogged and and was sending everything down that one lateral. I had the D-box dug up, cleaned out and the laterals all jetted. Then they did a treatment of the drain field as described in the video below. Different company, but the same treatment. Not cheap, but less expensive than a new drain field.

So far, so good.

This is what i had done, and i think this was the exact video i came across. It was about $1500

 

[INP8riot]

Did you guys put the tuners in the D box so you can send the same amount of effluent down each pipe?

 

[ditcherman]

Did you guys put the tuners in the D box so you can send the same amount of effluent down each pipe?

If the d box sits level they should all flow the same.

 

[Cameramonkey]

All this talk about D boxes makes me reminisce about all the shooters that have gone before us. LOL

/threadjack

 

[INP8riot]

If the d box sits level they should all flow the same.

I installed the D box myself, so I accounted for error/settling. lol Just to be safe I put them in.

 

[xwing]

Very informative thread! I recently had a similar experience to the OP. I suspected my septic because it looked full "to me". The septic company informed me that it's 90% full all the time and normal. Ended up being a clog in my main drain under my house that my manual cable snake couldn't clear. I had a plumber come and power-root it, which solved the issue.