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He was being cheap and/or overly cautious. As the landlord he's responsible for maintaining the septic system. He doesn't want to pump the system out. Paper is one of the slower things to digest in a septic. Most modern TP is designed to break down pretty readily. What you do need to watch out on is excess water use and bleach. Also don't flush cleaning products or grease down the drain. When the wife and I do general cleaning we use vinegar instead of the harsher stuff. When we do break out the industrial stuff we do it in buckets and not the sink and we dump the buckets out in front of our fence (extra weed killer). And a jar of bakers yeast down the banzai hole a month doesn't hurt either.
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Yeast huh?Originally posted by tabwyo View Post
I'm a brewer and produce quite a bit of yeast but as I understand it they only consume sugars - What is the theory behind putting this into the septic system?"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas JeffersonComment
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What a ridiculous concept. I've lived with septic systems in the past and nearly all of my kin folk had them. I've never heard of TP causing a problem.Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.Comment
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Quite a few outfits that clean out septic systems suggest it. Some say you don't need it. I brew on the order of 15 - 20 gallons of beer, wine and/or mead a month and what yeast I don't save to make another starter goes down the drain. It might be an old wives tail. One septic maintainer suggests that the yeast itself doesn't break anything down but it acts as a booster food for some of the bacteria in the system. I can see the merit in that sort of... cuz when I brew a high yeast unfiltered wheat ale I get some wicked gas!!!!!Originally posted by Blowmax10 View Post
PS. The last time we had our tank cleaned out the honey wagon operator said all he sucked out was well digested sludge and that our system was one of the cleanest he'd pumped out in a while. Takes a man with a iron gut to be a judge of something like that.Comment
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A friend in Minnesota lives on his grand parents homestead with a septic tank installed in the late '30s......it has never been pumped! The secret......4 chopped up heads of cabbage every fall!Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.Comment
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NO NO NO!!! Bad bad advice.... do not EVER flush Depends... they swell up!Comment
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LOL! I would never advise flushing Depends or diapers! ;)Originally posted by RememberGoliad View PostComment
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Theres a problem with the system and the landlord doesn't want to pay to fix it. Roots would be my first guess paper creates a clog cause it takes a little while to break down.Comment
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Having been on a Septic tank 45 years I can say the soaps
and chemicals washed through the sink, washing machine
dishwasher and toilet are far worse and cause more problems
than TP. Might check the laws in your area and see if it would
be possible to run a field line for your gray water and use the
Septic tank for just the toilet.Comment
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Looking at getting some propoerty for my retreat, growing up we never bagged our TP. I remember we had to pump it out once after 10 years, but no issues there.
What about separating the graw water out of the septic system?
This way only the toilets would go into the septic tank!Comment
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Learn about local codes befroe you buy the property if you want to do this. I built a house on a steep slope. included a lower valut section of basement (wine cellar/tornado shelter/dial-a-kiloton shelter). Since this is lower than the rest of the basement and surroned on 3-3/4 sides with at least 8 feet of dirt, I wanted to run a gravity drain out of its sump to release down the hillside (onto my several acres, so no neighbor is involved here). This is just water tile drainage, no gray or black water.Originally posted by deijoe View Post
Was told I had to have a sump pump and lft it up and over and down. Still runs directly into nature, except of course it is in danger of flooding in electrical failures.
Builder told me it was code, but maybe he was lying because he forgot to do what i wanted when it was easy.Comment
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