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Category: Septic Drain Field Repair

Contacting Septic Drainer

Posted on by Tim A

Hey Folks, it’s your Septic Drainer friends here. We want to give our customers many ways to contact us, so we can help assist you with all your septic repair needs! Here is some more information on contacting Septic Drainer.

You may fill out this form to send us an email. You can also call us at 518-812-0000.

Or, if you simply go to www.SepticDrainer.com, we also have a live chat that can be utilized any day of the week. You may also send us a message through our Facebook page. We try to give you as many was as possible of contacting Septic Drainer.

However you would like to contact us, our Septic Drainer professionals are ready to help you! Our customers are our number one priority and we’d love to hear from you and learn more about your needs.

Remember, Septic Drainer and our companion product, Bio-Septic Boost, are the ideal overall solution for septic drain field repair and maintenance. You can literally save thousands of dollars in repairs by using our products. Contact us by one of the means listed above and we will explain more about how our products can rejuvenate your septic system, even if it is failing.

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How to Repair Septic Systems Using Septic Drainer

Posted on by Mark Reynolds

Hello, it’s your friends at Septic Drainer here. In this post, we’d like to share information and steps to take that will explain how to repair septic systems using our Septic Drainer line of products.

First, some context. Did you know that according to the U.S. EPA, 90% of septic failures are in the drain field, leach field or seepage pit?

Did you also know that there are many types of septic drainage systems? If you refer to the pages of www.septicdrainer.com you will see many of these types of septic drainage systems illustrated for you, to better understand what system you might have. Your local or county building permit department normally stores your septic system’s design plans. These drawings are usually called “as-builds,” which consist of a hand drawing or a professional drawing of the layout of the system. No we can move on and dig into how to repair septic systems.

The Steps

After locating your important structures you should mark them, like your tank access cover or your distribution box, which makes future locates easy. A great way to mark these important locations is with Septi-Marker. Septi-Markers are low-profile 5-inch wafers that mount above the structures, but at the base of the grass level. Septi-Markers are lawnmower-safe.

Once you’ve located your structures and exposed them, we recommend flushing the drain lines or other structures with a pressure washer or pressure jetting unit, while vacuuming any debris — such as bio-mat or water — and at the same time leaving the structures as clean and dry as possible. Your next step will be adding Septic Drainer, a soil conditioner that opens your soil and allows liquid to drain. It’s best to add Septic Drainer directly into your drainage pipes or structures.

Your final step would be to add Bio-Septic Boost, which will accelerate the growth of aerobic bacteria. It’s this bacteria that will consume a byproduct of hard pan soil, called bio-mat. Bio-Septic Boost should be added to the solid side of your septic tank or any inside house drain.

Remember: Once you restore your system, you should add a gallon of Septic Drainer every six months in any clean-out closets to the drainage structure, or simply in the the toilet. It’s recommended to add 2.5 ounces per month of Bio-Septic Boost in any inside house drain.

Also, be sure to have your tank pumped every two years and repeat the above repair process every five years.

— Mark Reynolds

Mark Reynolds

Spring Septic Care Reminder

Posted on by Mark Reynolds

Hey folks, it’s Mark Reynolds here with an important spring septic care reminder. It’s time to have your septic tank pumped!

Regular septic pumping is an essential preventative maintenance task that often goes ignored by homeowners. That can be a costly mistake, since septic pumping provides a few critical services for your septic system:

1) Septic pumping removes solids from your tank. This helps the process of breaking down waste and ensures your system doesn’t overflow and/or fail.

2) It also enables an inspection opportunity to check your tank for structural failures, including being sure your baffles are intact.

3) Septic pumping also oxygenates the system, which aids the health and grow of beneficial bacteria needed to break down waste in your septic system.

You should also consider a septic treatment, such as adding a bio-stimulant nutrient to feed your bacteria with Bio-Septic Boost. And you should add a soil conditioner to keep your soil percolating, like Septic Drainer. Both products are an important part of our overall care package.

Give your septic professional a call today to assess spring septic care. Ask for a quote on septic pumping and inspection. Remember: You could be saving thousands of dollars tomorrow!

— Mark Reynolds, your septic guy!

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Septic Treatments – Know The Facts

Posted on by Mark Reynolds

Hey, folks! It’s Mark Reynolds here to talk about septic treatments and their impact on your septic system’s biological and soil health.

Septic systems require biology and permeable soil to function. Adding harsh chemicals from septic treatments harms your system’s biological health. For instance, someone using bleach in your toilet will destroy the active bacteria in the system. An oxygen-deficient system can cause aerobic bacteria to die. Adding too much laundry detergent or household cleaners also causes biological failure. Adding sodium to the system causes failure too, by stopping water drainage and air flow.

Your system has both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Anaerobic bacteria live without oxygen. Think of it this way: Anaerobic bacteria live below the surface of the water, and aerobic bacteria live above the water surfaces. A septic system requires both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria to function properly.

When your system’s soil stops allowing liquid to drain, the oxygen in your system stops flowing as well, which starves aerobic bacteria of oxygen and causes them to die. When aerobic bacteria die off, anaerobic bacteria — bacteria that live without oxygen — take over.

Aerobic bacteria aspirate waste in the air, while anaerobic bacteria secretes its waste organically as a sulfide. (Another term used for this waste is “bio-mat.”) This bio-mat forms over a system’s failure point, which is the layer of soil called “hard pan.”

The septic treatment that best maintains both the aerobic and anaerobic bacteria’s biological health is a product called Bio-Septic Boost, which is a bio-stimulant nutrient. If you add bacteria, you need to add both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, and by adding a bio-stimulant nutrient, you’re enhancing the growth of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, without the risk of adding the wrong type.

Hardpan Soil

When your septic’s soil mixes with sodium, especially in clay soils, it creates Hard pan soil. This sodium comes from our diets, laundry detergent, chlorinated water and of course, water softeners. The septic treatment that corrects and prevents hard pan soil is a soil conditioner called Septic Drainer.

It’s our recommendation to add 2.5 ounces of Bio-Septic Boost per month directly in any toilet or drain for maintenance applications. We also recommend adding one gallon of Septic Drainer every six months directly in an toilet or inside drain. If your system is failing or has failed, we recommend shocking the system with higher dosages of Bio-Septic Boost and Septic Drainer.

Protect one of your second-biggest home investments: your septic system. It only costs an average of $ 0.52 cents per day. Let’s not forget to have your system pumped every two years. Every five years, have your drain field lines flushed and the entire system vacuumed out. Be sure this includes the field lines, the distribution box and the septic tank.

Order Septic Drainer and Bio-Septic Boost at www.septicdrainer.com or by phone at 518-812-0000.

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Drain Field Wet Spots – Signs of Septic Trouble

Posted on by Mark Reynolds

Septic systems fail long before you ever see it or notice anything is wrong. But when you do see drain field wet spots on your lawn, then you really know you’re in trouble.

Septic drain fields come in many shapes and sizes. To better understand the type of system you have, try visiting Septic Drainer for great illustrations on the types of septic drain fields. If you notice wet spots on your lawn, that would be the third or fourth stage out of four in your septic drain field failure level. That’s when you know that it’s crucial to take action.

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Sodium is the real problem. This sodium comes from salt fillers used in laundry detergents, sodium from our diets and last but not least, your water softener. Over time this sodium mixes with the soil, especially clay soils, to form “hard pan soil.” Hard pan is a thin hard layer that sits between the soil and stone or gravel. Hard pan soil prevents liquid waste from draining. Septic Drainer breaks up hard pan soil using a non-toxic, non-hazardous product that can restore or prevent septic drain field failure.

For more information, visit us at www.septicdrainer.com or like us on Facebook.

Fix Hardpan Soil to Repair Your Septic System

Posted on by Mark Reynolds

Fix Hardpan Soil

According to the U.S. EPA, 90% of septic failure happens in the septic system’s drain field. That’s a pretty interesting stat when you consider 99% of the products sold today do very little to solve the largest reason a septic system’s drain field fails: “hardpan soil conditions.” Read on to learn how to fix hardpan soil and save your septic system.

Septic drain field failures started to increase after the Clean Air Act of the 1970s, which reduced sulfur omissions. Sulfur allows sodium to build up in soil, creating “hardpan soil.” A byproduct of hard pan soil is a black, slimy substance called bio-mat. Most septic drain field repair products treat bio-mat, without eliminating the reason the bio-mat formed in the first place.

An agent consisting of liquid gypsum and a bio-stimulant reduces or eliminates both hardpan soil conditions and bio-mat. This will fix hardpan soil and restore your system. We strongly recommend using a septic professional to completely flush your system before adding our Septic Drainer and Bio-Septic Boost. These proven products can then take over from there and keep your system running as it should.

Order online at www.septicdrainer.com or call your septic professional today. Tell them you want Septic Drainer and Bio-Septic Boost!

Regular Septic Maintenance With Septic Drainer

Posted on by Mark Reynolds

regular septic maintenance

Hey, it’s Mark Reynolds here to talk about your septic system and the importance of regular septic maintenance.

Don’t end up like your neighbors, having their lawn dug up to replace a failed system, or worse yet, living on a lake and having to install a holding tank to be pumped. There are four things to consider with winter coming:

1. Pump your tank every two years and pump out your tank and drain field every five years. We can’t stress this enough, yet it is a key preventative maintenance task that is frequently ignored by homeowners.

2. Keep your septic system’s drain field or leach field draining at its optimal levels by adding our patented product, Septic Drainer.

3. Maintain the biological and bacterial health of your septic system and drain or leach field by adding another of our great septic system products, Bio-Septic Boost.

4. For easy locating later, mark your septic locations and structures using Septi-Marker.

Septic Drainer and Bio-Septic Boost are essential for regular septic maintenance; they can restore a failed system, as well as keep it from failing. Pick some up at your local hardware store, order from your septic professional or order online at Septic Drainer. Septic Drainer really works!

Septic Repair: How To Choose The Right One For The Job

Posted on by Mark Reynolds

Septic Repair Products

Choosing the right septic repair products for the correct applications is vital. The highest percentage of septic repair products sold today don’t address the underlying septic drain field problem; they are products such as bacteria, that work on a symptom of septic drain field failure called bio-mat. That’s only a partial solution to a much more extensive underlying problem.

When the air flow stops in the soil of the septic drain field, aerobic bacteria turns into anaerobic bacteria, creating Bio-mat. Hardpan soil, created when clay-based soil mixes with salts, causes this drainage problem. The process creates a thin layer of soil that prevents wastewater from draining, causing septic drain field failure. That’s why you need to treat the bio-mat and hardpan soil in order to restore function to your septic system.

Using four gallons of Septic Drainer poured directly in the septic drain field pipes is recommended. Septic Drainer can repair a septic drain field and you can help to maintain that septic drain field by adding a gallon every six months directly in your toilet. It will both save you thousands of dollars in septic drain field repair costs.

Also, be sure to use another of our great products, Bio-Septic Boost!

Wet Spots In The Yard: Prevent Them With Simple Septic System Maintenance

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wet spots in the yard

Ever notice there are wet spots in your yard during or after a heavy rain, or after your septic system has had a lot of use?

Those wet spots are usually because your septic drain field is not draining properly. Over time a layer of soil forms, which is called hard pan. Hard pan is formed from combining sodium and soil, which later causes septic failures. There are a couple things you can do to repair your septic drain field:

One is simple septic system maintenance. Just add Septic Drainer directly in the drain field after pumping and cleaning out your drain field pipes.

The other potential method is spending a lot of money replacing your septic system. Is that the way you want to go?

Septic Drainer is a not a bacteria-based product! It is designed to work on repairing drain field soil conditions and it really works, including taking care of those wet spots in your yard! Order online or give us a call at 518-812-0000!

Also, be sure to check out another of our great products, Bio-Septic Boost! It’s an effective companion to our Septic Drainer product and an important part of our overall septic system care package.

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