Home Improvement Today?

This thread is giving me smell-o-vision.

 

O my bad. It sounded like you had the same sort of system I had with the pumps and crap. Worh yours being mound..,,well nevermind.

Least you maybe dont have to pay the yearly fee to the county?

 

I always LOVE popping those lids. Imagine a day or three after Thanksgiving.

 

No fees.

It's funny though, this does clearly demonstrate why mounds are pretty much required for new construction. They are a darn good thing with a high water table. When we were looking at the place...I was like "this mound is stupid"

 

green plastic riser ? They should have o ring that seals riser to tank and riser to any additional riser

 

yes exactly!

Riser to riser joint is pissing like me on my 7th beer......water just blowing in.

 

o ring must be either missing , torn or screws that connect the riser sections are not tight enough . They are intended to be waterproof so you don't get ground or surface water into the effluent or pump chambers

 

Lucky. It was $50 to the county yearly for who knows what. I paid $150 to a company who "inspected" it every year. The fully they did the county paperwork too, and the 150 extra included any other service call fees

More than paid for itself one year when. I had a problem with so e airator thingy and she came out like four times






Glad I have a standard gravity drain system now

 

Gonna be a bitch to get after. May do some digging tomorrow

 

whatever you do , don't pump the tanks out past about 1/4 full , with high ground water levels , the tank can become buoyant and actually float . On the flip side , you don't want the water to be too high either , by your description it sounds like you have a solids / effluent tank and separate pump tank . The normal solids / effluent tanks are 2 chamber with a wall in the middle . Majority of the solids are supposed to remain in the first chamber with whatever gets over the wall settling in the second chamber . Its supposed to only be solids-free effluent making it to the pump chamber to then be discharged to the field . Pumping solids to the field can lead to clogging and premature field failure . If your water level remains above the baffle between the solids chambers , they can pass to the pump chamber and will be pumped to the field

 

Yes separate pump tank, with only a piss hole size inlet. No idea what is happening at this exact moment but no solids were blowing in there past the cylindrical plastic sieve filter (in the secondary settling tank) when I had the lids off.

Finally stopped raining. Just drain baby, drain!!

 

Throw a tarp over the riser. May help keep some rain away from it until this monsoon season ends, if ever it ends.

 

I thought about that. Really won't help as all the soil is supersaturated

Good news - this AM dry and windy.

 

Just depends how much moulding corners you have to do i guess. Might be able to make one

 

If it produces a stellar finish and professional looking end result sure why not you can spend $150 on worse things in life.....

 

I have an older, plastic version of this - I probably paid $20 bucks for it.

It works fine - you need the patience to set up the stock in the jig correctly, and the patience to run the saw slooooowly to make the cut.

I like the clamp on this one - I may modify mine.

 

Well, the back patio is being epoxied today.....

 

No. Grinder or Collins coping jig on a jig saw.