# Septic tanks **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 11, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903 "2006-03-11T19:56:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newchic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newchic/32/5989_2.png) [@newchic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newchic)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/1 "2006-03-11T19:56:14Z")
Does anyone know anything about Septic tanks or know how to fix them when they back up into the basement? 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![eurodad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eurodad/32/5988_2.png) [@eurodad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eurodad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/2 "2006-03-11T19:58:50Z")
we don’t need to know how to fix it, we need to know where it is so we can have it cleaned. ---
**Author:** ![slowcamaro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slowcamaro/32/5975_2.png) [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/3 "2006-03-11T20:07:11Z")
i know there full of shit thats all ---
**Author:** ![VictorSmalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/victorsmalls/32/5944_2.png) [@VictorSmalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/VictorSmalls)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/4 "2006-03-11T20:19:54Z")
All I know is that its not cheap. We had to have ours dug up last year and it was about 2k to get things unclogged. ---
**Author:** ![brokeasskorean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@brokeasskorean](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brokeasskorean)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/5 "2006-03-11T20:22:48Z")
you have a PM ---
**Author:** ![bgblockelcamino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bgblockelcamino/32/5997_2.png) [@bgblockelcamino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bgblockelcamino)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/6 "2006-03-11T22:46:04Z")
shitters full(cousin eddie vacation) ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/7 "2006-03-11T22:48:14Z")
would not be full, if don did not take those huge dumps from the wings:kekegay: ---
**Author:** ![eurodad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eurodad/32/5988_2.png) [@eurodad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eurodad)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/8 "2006-03-12T03:57:41Z")
> [@shaggy](#): > > would not be full, if don did not take those huge dumps from the wings:kekegay: 👼 double flushers ---
**Author:** ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/9 "2006-03-12T05:04:27Z")
You need to find out if there’s an old mine under it and start drilling. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BlkP42E](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blkp42e/32/5938_2.png) [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/10 "2006-03-12T09:16:32Z")
it poop again! ---
**Author:** ![vw16vcabby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vw16vcabby/32/5943_2.png) [@vw16vcabby](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vw16vcabby)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/11 "2006-03-12T09:29:37Z")
stop tossing tampons down the shitter. ---
**Author:** ![eurodad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eurodad/32/5988_2.png) [@eurodad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eurodad)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/12 "2006-03-12T09:44:07Z")
> [@vw16vcabby](#): > > stop tossing tampons down the shitter. she don’t do that,n our house is old, like maybe 100 yrs old. septic has never been touched. no ones knows where it’s at or even if there is one. ---
**Author:** ![newchic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newchic/32/5989_2.png) [@newchic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newchic)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/13 "2006-03-13T13:38:56Z")
Anyone have a bulldozer we could borrow? ---
**Author:** ![Pewter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pewter/32/5936_2.png) [@Pewter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pewter)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/14 "2006-03-13T13:44:20Z")
use ur ass ---
**Author:** ![CavlrZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@CavlrZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/CavlrZ)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/15 "2006-03-13T14:00:50Z")
> [@slowcamaro](#): > > i know there full of shit thats all 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/16 "2006-03-13T14:03:25Z")
> [@5ltr eater](#): > > she don’t do that,n our house is old, like maybe 100 yrs old. septic has never been touched. no ones knows where it’s at or even if there is one. Mine was built in 1891 :booty: ---
**Author:** ![eurodad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eurodad/32/5988_2.png) [@eurodad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eurodad)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/17 "2006-03-13T14:58:29Z")
> [@shaggy](#): > > Mine was built in 1891 :booty: the old woman across the street says when she moved in across the street in the 1920, the house was already here and someone used to sell moon shine out of it. ---
**Author:** ![81Boo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ac8455/32.png) [@81Boo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/81Boo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/18 "2006-03-13T16:18:13Z")
my house was built in 1904 ---
**Author:** ![red04cavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@red04cavy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/red04cavy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/19 "2006-03-13T17:10:38Z")
My parents have a septic tank at their house. Not too long after we moved in there, it backed up into the basement like that. We had to have it pumped out (there is a place in Smithton called Affordable Sanitation that is cheap). Eventually, we had to dig a new leach bed (which is where the tank drains into the ground), which required the use of dirt and gravel. if it has never been pumped out before, that is the first thing you should think about doing though. ---
**Author:** ![munster\_ek](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/munster_ek/32/5977_2.png) [@munster\_ek](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/munster_ek)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903/20 "2006-03-13T18:14:28Z")
If you call a sanitary company they will be able to find the tank by running a camera from the basement into the tank then measure the distance off of the house above ground. Then you’ll be able to uncover the top of the tank and get it pumped. I would get some septic tank risers and lid from a tank company (We have them at the company I work at) that way if you have to dig it up again it’s only a foot or two…not 6’ or more. If that doesn’t solve the problem it’s possible that the line broke due to roots or excessive above ground weight. That would show up in a camera inspection. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/septic-tanks/180903.md?page=2)