Septic Tank Restriction

[Leona Valley]

Originally Posted by Threerun

Well then offer something of value instead of diatrabe.

Great advice has already been given. Surely you've read them. Relax.

[oldtrader]

As my septic man told me, to speed up bacterial growth, feed them. Go to your grocer and get 2 of those pound packages of baking yeast, and flush the yeast down the toilet.

This will greatly help the bacteria growth until there is enough waste to keep them fed.

[luv4horses]

Since everyone and his uncle wants to respond here I guess I will jump in too. The only admonition I’ve heard about doing laundry has to do with the force and volume of water when the water dumps out. Supposedly that can stir up the gunk in the first chamber if the tank is recently pumped. So a new tank has no liquid layer to cushion that laundry water flush. Sounds like the builder wants the tank to be full of water before you do a laundry dump and stir up the cr*p in the tank. Can’t imagine why but if you gently ran water into the tank for a couple hundred gallons, would that provide the buffer needed?

[Rickcin]

If the builder thinks that, he is totally clueless and has little understanding how the tank or system works!
- Washing machine pumps into the drain line to overcome the height of the machine so the sewer line is not pressurized, it’s gravity flow to the tank.
Even if it was pressurized, like with a sewage ejector pump, it still goes into the waste line and then the tank without issue.

- The tanks baffles are up at the top and that inhibits any flow and it drops the effluent directly down, stirring up not possible.

- And a 4 bedroom sized tank, which is 1250 gallons will be totally full in less than 5 days with 4 people living in the house, so not do laundry for months?