Septic Tank In Fairfax County, Va
Have you recently purchased a home in the country that has a septic tank on it? If so, and if you’re accustomed to living in a house that’s connected to a municipal sewage system, you should know that there are a few important differences.
The biggest difference you’re likely to notice is that since you own the septic system, you’re responsible for your own waste management. When you were living in town and tied to the city sewer system, it didn’t really matter what got flushed down the toilet or poured down the sink drain.
Sure, if you pour or flush the wrong thing, it might clog a drain, but the second the clog clears your pipes the problem is solved. Whatever inappropriate material is on its way to the waste treatment plant where someone else will take care of it.
If you have a septic tank on your Fairfax County, VA property though, the buck stops with you. One way or another, everything that winds up in the tank is going to have to come back out.
Most of the time it works like this: You flush or pour something that’s biodegradable down the toilet or drain. It goes into your tank, and the bacteria living there get to work on it. They break it down and in time, it flows from the tank into your drain field where it’s gone forever.
Problems arise though, when you introduce something that isn’t biodegradable into that system. The bacteria can’t do anything with it. They’re unable to break it down, so it sits there, taking up your limited tank real estate and progressively clogging your system.
Introduce enough non-biodegradable stuff into the septic tank on your Fairfax County, VA property and the raw sewage that’s in there with it only has one place to go: Right back into your house.
If you’ve never had to deal with anything like that, count yourself lucky. You never want to. Imagine the most awful thing you can think of, and then multiply that by a factor of six or eight and that will put you in the ballpark of how bad raw sewage inside your house is.
It’s an expensive problem to deal with and it poses a very real health hazard to you and your family.
The good news is that the scenario above can be avoided by giving us a call and having the septic tank on your Fairfax County, VA pumped out and inspected at regular intervals. We recommend every three to five years as a rule of thumb but this will vary from one household to the next. In any case, if you even suspect you’re having a septic issue, just give our office a call and we’ll take care of it for you.