Post by nytrapper23 on Mar 26, 2015 16:59:16 GMT -5
well for those of you that don't know ,when I went on the ice fishing trip to Ohio with cj, and the boys one of my tenants called and said it smelled like sewer in the basement .when I got home and checked it out it seemed the septic was backed up. It was just pumped in oct. 2014 so I didn't think that was the issue, had it pumped again and while pumping grey water was running from the dry well back into the tank , not good , well I finally got to digging today to find out what happened . I took some pics along the way ,
This is what it looked like before I started.
The tank is right in front of that step, and the outlet goes out in front of the shovel back towards the pine trees
This is where I think the dry well should be , along the pine trees somewhere.
This is the machine I rented .$250 for 4hrs and that's the least you can rent it for. Ended up using it for 31/2 hrs.
Starting digging from the tank back. About 1' down hit the drain outlet , it's the old clay tiles , as I went everyone was seeping out at every joint. Got out 23' and there was a 45 in the line headed in the direction I thought the dry well would be,kept digging and from about 12' on the tiles were completely plugged, kept digging and at about the 27' mark ran out of tile hit a bunch of bricks? Dug a big hole looking for the dry well , no go . So I guess it just went out into those bricks and ended.
So with no dry well to be found and knowing the tiles were completely plugged I knew if there was one it was shot anyways , so I just dug about 65' of trench 2' wide and 4' deep filled it to grade with stone and made a new leach line. The first 25' from the tank had been seeping for awhile and the soil was shot so I put solid pipe from there to the 45 then perforated the next 70' . It's all in and shot to grade , just going to keep it open a couple days to make sure I don't have any problems then I will backfill,when I backfill I will put a layer of straw over the pipe then backfill ,the reas.on for this is so you don't fill your perforated holes with dirt,when the straw rots away the dirt should have settled and should be good.
This is from the 45 back about 65'-70'.
Here's my little compact that I moved the stone with and will backfill with,really saves a ton of work.
So hopefully this will save me some time,I do need a new system at this place but the $6000-$8000 estimate I got is not going to happen right now.
This is what it looked like before I started.
The tank is right in front of that step, and the outlet goes out in front of the shovel back towards the pine trees
This is where I think the dry well should be , along the pine trees somewhere.
This is the machine I rented .$250 for 4hrs and that's the least you can rent it for. Ended up using it for 31/2 hrs.
Starting digging from the tank back. About 1' down hit the drain outlet , it's the old clay tiles , as I went everyone was seeping out at every joint. Got out 23' and there was a 45 in the line headed in the direction I thought the dry well would be,kept digging and from about 12' on the tiles were completely plugged, kept digging and at about the 27' mark ran out of tile hit a bunch of bricks? Dug a big hole looking for the dry well , no go . So I guess it just went out into those bricks and ended.
So with no dry well to be found and knowing the tiles were completely plugged I knew if there was one it was shot anyways , so I just dug about 65' of trench 2' wide and 4' deep filled it to grade with stone and made a new leach line. The first 25' from the tank had been seeping for awhile and the soil was shot so I put solid pipe from there to the 45 then perforated the next 70' . It's all in and shot to grade , just going to keep it open a couple days to make sure I don't have any problems then I will backfill,when I backfill I will put a layer of straw over the pipe then backfill ,the reas.on for this is so you don't fill your perforated holes with dirt,when the straw rots away the dirt should have settled and should be good.
This is from the 45 back about 65'-70'.
Here's my little compact that I moved the stone with and will backfill with,really saves a ton of work.
So hopefully this will save me some time,I do need a new system at this place but the $6000-$8000 estimate I got is not going to happen right now.
