No, not really a rainy season. I mean, mid summer we get downpours and thunderstorms where things stay muggy and the ground is wet for a week - yet septic runs fine.
I should mention something else. The guys who emptied my tank were snakeoil salesman. They did say my tank was perfect, and my filter was perfect, so the drain fields were likely perfect. I looked at it all myself, and everything looked good to me as well.
However, the previous owner installed a patio over the main drain line that comes out of the basement slab and under the patio horizontally then into the tank. The washout is right in the patio cement.
Anyway, the septic guys said they believe that main line (seemed to be 8 inch PVC) where it's under the patio had sunk or been pushed down. Therefore, it was no longer on a steep enough angle for the waste to freely flow from gravity into the tank. Across that run of drain line, the waste would thus have a tendancy to get a little caught up there.
It wasn't like an uphill though, just that the a portion of the main drain line's bottom might be 1/2 inch lower than the bottom of that same line where it enter the tank.
They said I needed to tear up the patio and have it fixed and put at a greater angle. Then they asked if I was moving, because if so, I could just let the next guy deal with it. Then they said I'd probably be OK and if I ever had an issue, I could double flush, run some water in the house, etc. That weight and flow would sort of push/blast out anything lingering in that section of drain line.
Or worst case, I could use a hose in the washout in the patio to manuaully clear it. I've never had to do that.
So I'm wondering if the weather is having some effect on the waste in that section of drain line
I should mention something else. The guys who emptied my tank were snakeoil salesman. They did say my tank was perfect, and my filter was perfect, so the drain fields were likely perfect. I looked at it all myself, and everything looked good to me as well.
However, the previous owner installed a patio over the main drain line that comes out of the basement slab and under the patio horizontally then into the tank. The washout is right in the patio cement.
Anyway, the septic guys said they believe that main line (seemed to be 8 inch PVC) where it's under the patio had sunk or been pushed down. Therefore, it was no longer on a steep enough angle for the waste to freely flow from gravity into the tank. Across that run of drain line, the waste would thus have a tendancy to get a little caught up there.
It wasn't like an uphill though, just that the a portion of the main drain line's bottom might be 1/2 inch lower than the bottom of that same line where it enter the tank.
They said I needed to tear up the patio and have it fixed and put at a greater angle. Then they asked if I was moving, because if so, I could just let the next guy deal with it. Then they said I'd probably be OK and if I ever had an issue, I could double flush, run some water in the house, etc. That weight and flow would sort of push/blast out anything lingering in that section of drain line.
Or worst case, I could use a hose in the washout in the patio to manuaully clear it. I've never had to do that.
So I'm wondering if the weather is having some effect on the waste in that section of drain line
