I have a septic tank which I'm going to have to have cleaned out as a prerequisite to selling our house sometime in the next 6-12 months.
Before we bought the house, the tank was beneath the dirt floor in the outdoor carport next to the original house. The "genius" we bought the house from remodeled it about 15 years before we bought it, and in the process he poured a concrete slab completely over the entire carport dirt floor and turned the carport into part of a new interior addition to the house! That new room is now our home office! So the opening to my septic tank is now somewhere beneath the carpet inside my office! Not to mention somewhere beneath the concrete floor under the carpet! :furious:
I knew this when I bought the house, and I can see, once I pull back the carpet, where the "genius" had either jack hammered or sledge hammered a hole in the slab to get at the tank before we bought the house. He then repoured concrete and put back the carpet, and declared "mission accomplished". :furious:
So now, to help me prepare for doing it myself, can someone tell me approximately how large an opening is usually put in the top of a septic tank? I'm assuming it'll be some sort of removable plug a foot or so in each direction, with some sort of a handle on it for the tank cleaner-outer guy to grab hold of, etc. Am I on track here?
To make matters worse, the place in the slab where I'll have to cut the hole is in a small alcove of the office, making access for large tools even harder than if it was smack in the center of the room! At least I won't have to completely remove everything in the whole room! Arrrggahhhhhhh........
Thx.
Tom
Before we bought the house, the tank was beneath the dirt floor in the outdoor carport next to the original house. The "genius" we bought the house from remodeled it about 15 years before we bought it, and in the process he poured a concrete slab completely over the entire carport dirt floor and turned the carport into part of a new interior addition to the house! That new room is now our home office! So the opening to my septic tank is now somewhere beneath the carpet inside my office! Not to mention somewhere beneath the concrete floor under the carpet! :furious:
I knew this when I bought the house, and I can see, once I pull back the carpet, where the "genius" had either jack hammered or sledge hammered a hole in the slab to get at the tank before we bought the house. He then repoured concrete and put back the carpet, and declared "mission accomplished". :furious:
So now, to help me prepare for doing it myself, can someone tell me approximately how large an opening is usually put in the top of a septic tank? I'm assuming it'll be some sort of removable plug a foot or so in each direction, with some sort of a handle on it for the tank cleaner-outer guy to grab hold of, etc. Am I on track here?
To make matters worse, the place in the slab where I'll have to cut the hole is in a small alcove of the office, making access for large tools even harder than if it was smack in the center of the room! At least I won't have to completely remove everything in the whole room! Arrrggahhhhhhh........
Thx.
Tom