Anyone out there ever install there own septic system? If so, how did it turn out? Thanks
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Put my own in, including poured in place tank. No problems over 33 years. Just read your local regulations and a few phamplets for knowledge needed. Main things to remember - S888 flows downhill, use double compartment, record where everything is exactly for your own good.
Now (Seattle area), you have to pay $200 to take a test (relatively simple) for a license for designer or installer, can't do both here even on your own house unless near perfect soil.
Do a web search for "Infiltrator" I think. It's a plastic leach field system. Joe H
I did, I guess it is ok, why do you ask?
I built a split septic system for my house for about $500, materials and excavating (I did the labor). Kind of unconventional and legality is iffy--kind of a grey area. But then I'm quite rural. It's been about 4 years, no problems, and looks like I should never need to pump the "tank".
Split septics, I believe, are legal in parts of the Southwest and are commonly done with the more granola types of builders. I did it for the cost and because I thought it was a great idea. Still do.
Up where our cottage is, things used to be pretty loose when it came to enforcement. The typical septic tank for a house there was a car. Take your old clunker, cut a hole in one door for the inlet, one for the outlet. Or just roll down the window. Solves two problems at once....
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