Septic Tank Installation Part 1

Hi, I'm Tim Carter, AskTheBuilder.com. I want to talk a little bit about septic tank installation

Got a really really good example here. First of all, this is not my job. I'm not building this

home. So if you see things that are wrong, it's not my fault. Secondly, if you discover something

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Nothing about this is hard. Let's get started. What you're looking at is a pad, a leveled pad

where that's got crushed gravel in it, where they're going to put the septic tank for this

particular home. All right, and this was solid granite. And about two, three days ago, a machine

was here and chipped out all of the granite that was here to be able to put this gravel down because they need that to be perfectly level to set the septic tank down

And I will show that to you, hopefully this in the next day or so, they might come and

put it in. But here's what you need to understand. When you see the septic tank come in, it's got a hole in it where the sewage goes into

the tank and then there's another pipe that comes out of the septic tank and it's going to go

this direction. Eventually there will be a pipe that comes through here and this is the leach field

that they installed over the past few days. So there's all the sand for the leach field

and they may still have to put pipes on top of that and add more sand but this is where the leach

field for this septic tank is going to be. All right and up on that hill way up there you might

be able to see that is the sewage pipe that's coming from the home. So it's headed this way

and they also have an electrical conduit coming to it. Can't for the life of me figure out why

they would need electricity in the septic tank. Can't wait to see what that connects to because

typically septic tanks, they don't need any electricity. But you need to understand that

The relationship of this level here is very critical to what the pipe is wherever it comes out of the home So in other words you don want your septic tank sitting too high because then gravity can get the sewage from the

house to the septic tank. Really, really important. At this stage of the job, it's really, really

important for you to understand your takeaway for this should be that when you go to buy a lot and

you know it's going to have a septic tank on it, you need to make sure that you understand

where the septic tank is going to go, how deep it can go into the ground, and can you get the pipe

from the house to the septic tank with enough fall so that the water's not going the wrong way

and heading back towards the house, right? And also, you have to consider from the septic tank

to the leach field, you also have to have fall for that. So in other words, you need to buy a lot

that is not perfectly flat. You want to buy a lot that's got some slope to it, but it has to have

the slope in the correct direction, all right? You got to think all this stuff through. And if you

need help doing it, guess what? I offer that service. In the description of this video is a link

where I'm happy to call you on the phone and show you exactly how to make sure that your septic tank going to work All you have to do is click that link place an order and then I just need to look at your plan or look at the site plan of the lot you thinking about

building. All right, remember if you discovered something new in the video, just click that text

link under the video that says thanks. Click it. Go ahead, maybe buy me a beer, buy me a ice cream

cone, mocha chip is my favorite, or a box of dark chocolate pecandis from Aglomices

in Cincinnati. Oh my gosh, they are so good. Oh my gosh. All right. Anyway, thanks very much for

watching the video. I'm going to do another one on the septic tank. I'm going to watch really closely

each day, and when they deliver that septic tank that night, I'm going to do the second video so

that you can understand the relationship of where the water comes into the septic tank

and where it exits the tank. All right, watch for that video. I'm Tim Carter, askthebuilder.com

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