How do you Poo?

[schmism]

Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?

septic with leach feild

 

[FallbrookFarmer]

Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?

Thanks to all who participated. My Hypothesis was proved out!

 

[tulenutn2o]

Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?

Which was....................................we are all full of POO?:laughing:

 

[horsebroke]

Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?

Since I'm outside the city limits I'm on a septc system (in Western Colorado). And my last 2 homes (texas and Virginia) were both in the coutntry and on Sepic/Well.

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?

Septic with Leech field
Water well

Think we may have a new well drilled this summer. They are talking all kinds of surface water usage in our area, its coming. So I want the new well installed before it costs even more. I got an estimate last year for a cased well, concrete time, etc of $10k. Ouch Hubby said we really need to do it this year. Our well is still good, has been the 20 years we are out here but it will eventually sand in at the bottom or pipe rust or something so we want to be ready. I can use the new one to water the garden, yard etc till we need it for the house.

 

[tulenutn2o]

Septic with leach field here. Rural water-comes from the city aquafier and costs 3 times as much.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Septic and a field too.

 

[dmccarty]

Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?

It sprays out as pure water just like the municipal sewer systems. Essentially, those of us on aerobic systems are a municipal sewer system of one. I have two pop-up sprinklers that water my grass. As long as the air pump works to keep the little bacteria bugs happy and well fed, there is no odor at all in the spray except for a slight chlorine smell from the tiny bit of "insurance" chlorine added to the water. The nice thing about aerobic is no leach field problems. The bad thing is the state requires an annual service contract, so it costs me about $225 annually or about $75 per inspection and cleaning every 4 months. My aerator motor runs continually and that is an electric expense just like my well pump. The motors last about 6 to 8 years and have to be replaced because of shot bearings, cost: $400. My initial cost for the system was $5500 back in 2001. I also had to pay an engineer to approve the layout and $400 to the county for an inspection of the installation.

Grrrr.

Such a system in my area would be $20-30K! Which makes NO sense. I remember years back discussions with Bird and other TBNers about their septic systems. The systems were cheap down there and built with gold up here.

We used to own a lot that would require a Low Pressure Pipe system that I was told would cost $15K. I had a design from an engineer and there just was not much to the system. One did not need a license to install a system and for the prices being quoted I figure I could install one about 3 times before I got to 15K. :confused2:

That lot has is on the market again and the septic rules changed on them so that the old permitted system is no longer valid. :confused2::laughing:

Oh, we are on septic. Conventional that was just pumped after five years for $175ish.

Back up is the woods. Don't need no stink'n Outhouse. Which is still legal as far as I know. The state regulations had the design specs for an Outhouse when I last read them. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[gotrocks]

Since you brought this up here is my post from 2006



Here is my little out house. I just covers the valves to the pipe running to the pond.
Was Googling around and found a site that stated the moon on the door was originally for ladies and the men's had a star. Theory is that ladies took better care of theirs than men did therefore; you just don't see many with stars on the door. (Except in Hollywood):laughing:

Then there was this extended family that decided it was time to move the outhouse. Just so happened the well drillers had been working for a couple of weeks and had gone down 600 feet still no water. So they gave up for the time being. Well the young sons whose job it was to relocate the outhouse decided it would save a lot of diging to just move the old house over the dry well.

Next morning Grandpa was not at the breakfast table. After a considerable time they found him in the outhouse, dead. The coroner said cause of death was Asphyxiation. The family wondered how that could have happened, the outhouse was well ventilated. Then one of the son's remembered, Grandpa always held his breath until he heard the first splash.

 

[jinman]

Re: What Kind Of Septic System Do You Have?

Grrrr.

Such a system in my area would be $20-30K! Which makes NO sense. I remember years back discussions with Bird and other TBNers about their septic systems. The systems were cheap down there and built with gold up here.

I remember that Dan. When I first saw your post back then, I thought you had made a typo. What a shocker!:confused2: