The all things SEPTIC thread.

[Creedmoor]

Kitchen sink been bubbling for a year or 2 when the washer evacuates. This is the exact smell. This is just my grey

It was letting you know, bad moon rising.

 

[CTC B4Z]

I just don't know if I should continue to try to find a pit and possibly rehab it.

 

[dudley0]

Just curious as I am not in this trade, but do you have a disposal in the kitchen?

Just looks like a lot of solids for merely grey. We had a disposal in our first house. Wife would force stuff down there. Plugged the drain. I cut the pipe in the basement, gave her a coat hanger and she never used the disposal again. Haven't had one in any of our other houses. When I get one in a rental I remove it.

Still following the thread because I am curious now. Especially with the corrugated pipe. Smooth inside I could see, but the other seems to be a mess waiting to happen.

 

[Shadow01]

If you are having these issues every 2 years or so, I would call in a professional and have a new leach field tied into your tank. Have the gray water dump straight into the new field. Any replacement you do is going to have to meet code. Might as well have the pros do it right.

 

[Jaybird1980]

I just don't know if I should continue to try to find a pit and possibly rehab it.

Good chance it doesn't have a pit. Putting a grease trap in will help keep it from building back up in the future.

I might have missed it but how long was that piece of corrugated?

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

I have a sewer auger, like the picture below, if you want to try and clear some of that pipe. I was going to offer up earlier but I saw you had already went past 50' (which is the length of this one) with a snake. Now that you've found this area, it might help. I will say the old soap line at my house was just perforated corrugated pipe with no pit, just like what you have found, so you may not have anything else.

 

[CTC B4Z]

Good chance it doesn't have a pit. Putting a grease trap in will help keep it from building back up in the future.

I might have missed it but how long was that piece of corrugated?

Right now I'm designing in my head. But yes I want a grease pit about 40 feet from the house, so that brings us just passed the driveway. Then I want another 30 ft if pipe and then I want either a pit or to install a t with perforated pipe laid in rock that goes 100 ft.

I am also betting there is no pit. There is a creek about another 75 feet but there is no way they made it through all those trees.

I will draw a diagram later.

 

[CTC B4Z]

I have a sewer auger, like the picture below, if you want to try and clear some of that pipe. I was going to offer up earlier but I saw you had already went past 50' (which is the length of this one) with a snake. Now that you've found this area, it might help. I will say the old soap line at my house was just perforated corrugated pipe with no pit, just like what you have found, so you may not have anything else.

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I've got a 100 ft just like that if you ever need.

Thank you

 

[CTC B4Z]

I knew this was going to all come ahead soon. The prior owners probably ran their dishwasher 1x a month an dmaybe washed clothes once a week.

We are typical millennial and dishwasher runs 3-5x a week and wash clothes and linen every other day.

This was totally expected. We are totally spoiled by city living.

 

[CTC B4Z]

 

[CTC B4Z]

Parallel to the tree line is where I want to run 50-100 ft of leg. The T portion of you will. I don't think I need a pit especially if I install a solid/grease pit early on.

 

[CTC B4Z]

By moving on with PVC combined with the clothes washer water dispersal rate, that pipe will never have an issue. It'll basically get blasted clean every run.

 

[Jaybird1980]

Parallel to the tree line is where I want to run 50-100 ft of leg. The T portion of you will. I don't think I need a pit especially if I install a solid/grease pit early on.

Don't make it a T, make it a square at the end. And remember tree roots travel a long ways so don't get to close to the tree line.