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Leach Field Cleaner treats Bio Mat And Hard Pan

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The Best Leach Field Clearner must solve your underlying causes of Leach Field failure to be effective. Many products solve the symptoms of Leach Field Problems such as excessive organinc overloading or the formation of Bio-Mat but does not solve the reason your system does not drain. Does the product or products your looking to purchase solve both Hard Pan Soil issues such as Organic Material or Bio-Mat issues?

Here is a link to help you under stand what causes Septic Leach Field Failures

https://www.septicdrainer.com/why-drain-fields-fail/

Here is a short Video that will give you a better understanding of how your septic system works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVpkf6mZcAw

Visit us at https://www.septicdrainer.com for more information.

David Stewart (VT Soil Scientest) of Dominion Septic Inc in Virginia 

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Are Self-Dispensing Toilet Cleaners Safe for Septic Systems?

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Hey Folks, it’s Mark Reynolds here, with a little advice on whether to use self-dispensing toilet cleaners or not. We live in a time where people want easy solutions to routine tasks, so these products are increasing in popularity.

However, we do not recommend using any self-dispensing toilet cleaners, because of the frequency of use.

These cleaners have harsh chemicals that affect your system’s biological health. They may contain sulfates, sodium hydroxide, sodium hypochlorite (bleach) and phosphoric acid. These highly toxic chemicals trigger asthma attacks, irritate lungs and burn eyes, skin and internal organs. Imagine what they will do to the fragile bacteria in your septic system.

Using toilet cleaners on an occasional basis gives your system’s bacteria enough time to recover. However when you use a self-dispensing cleaner, the bacteria can’t do their job once the frequency that these chemicals are sent down the pipes increases. The bacteria can’t keep up with the extra amount of chemicals being flushed.

Try looking into using green cleaning products or at bare minimum, non-automatic toilet cleaners. Whatever your choice of cleaner may be, add a biological stimulant — like our Bio-Septic Boost — to increase the activity of both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, further protecting your system’s biological health.

Learn more at www.biosepticboost.com or www.septicdrainer.com

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Septic Maintenance Tips: Our Top 3

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It’s Mark Reynolds here, with a little advice on taking care of your septic system. Don’t let the prospect of septic care overwhelm you. If you focus on a few core preventative maintenance tasks, you’ll save thousands of dollars in repair costs down the road.

During my many years in the septic business, I have learned much about what works. Here are my top three recommended septic maintenance tips to keep your septic system working smoothly:

  1. If there’s one thing you should do, it’s to have your system pumped and inspected every two years. I can’t stress this enough. It’s essential.
  2. The second best thing you can do is add both a soil conditioner and bio-stimulant nutrient. This keeps your system’s bacteria healthy and your septic drain field soil draining properly. Healthy bacteria are essential for a healthy septic system.
  3. The third thing you can do is hydro-flush your drain field pipes and vacuum your entire system. Always leave a small amount of material in your tank.

Be sure to read the Septic Drainer blog regularly for more useful information on how to keep your septic system running smoothly. You can also learn more septic maintenance tips at our sites, Bio-Septic Boost and www.septicdrainer.com.

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How to Repair Septic Systems Using Septic Drainer

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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

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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

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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.

RCS II, Inc

Winter Septic Treatments: Recommended Schedule

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Hey folks, it’s Mark Reynolds from Septic Drainer here, to talk about winter septic treatments.

The internet at times is a great resource for information. It’s like a 24/7 “how’s it made show,” and for us information junkies, it’s pretty cool. So with that in mind, we’re proud to be a source of information on all things related to septic systems.

Your septic system remains at an average temperature of 55 degrees year round. The temperature is dependent on the depth of the system, as well. In Alaska, the average depth of a system is 20 feet, while our upstate New York depth is just 4 feet.

It’s just as important to maintain both the drain field soil and the biological heath your system in the winter. My recommendation for winter septic treatments is to add a gallon of Septic Drainer (soil conditioner) every six months and add 2.5 ounces of Bio-Septic Boost (biological health septic treatment) once per month. If you’re adding bacteria, that’s great, but by combining Bio-Septic Boost, it enhances the effectiveness of that bacteria by millions-fold.

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Happy Holidays!

Regular Septic Maintenance With Septic Drainer

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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!

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