I need to tell you something nearly all septic companies refuse to: there are two categories of people in this world. Those who think septic systems are just “subterranean tanks for waste,” and those who’ve had raw sewage erupting into their yard at midnight. I understood this reality the tough way in 2005βwaist-deep in muck, freezing in a Washington deluge, as my brothers and I helped a grizzled installer restore our family’s broken system. I was a teenager. My hands blistered. My pants were wrecked. But that night, something crystallized: This is not just dirt work. It’s folks’ lives we are safeguarding.
This is the ugly truth: the majority of septic companies just pump tanks. They act like quick-fix salesmen at a demolition convention. But Septic Solutions? They are unique. It all began back in the beginning of the 2000s when Art and his brothersβjust kids hardly tall enough to shoulder a shovelβhelped install their family’s septic system alongside a grizzled pro. Imagine this: three kids knee-deep in Pennsylvania clay, discovering how soil permeability affects drainage while their buddies played Xbox. “We did not just dig trenches,” Art told me last winter, hot coffee cup in hand. “We learned how ground whispers mysteries. A patch of marsh plants here? That’s Mother Nature yelling ‘high water table.'”
Can I extend the life of my drain field?