A "Roto Chem" is when the cesspool or septic company you called either does not own a pump truck or does not want to put one on the road for you and their guy or gal is there at your home and wants to make money and not the right thing. The right thing is to always pump your septic tank or your first cesspool.
What will happen if they can not directly drop Sulfuric Acid directly into a known Cesspool and Cesspool only, They will Jump the house trap with a cable machine ( See our piece on "Jumping a House Trap") Then pour Sulfuric Acid into your Fresh Air Vent, To travel thru your delicate House Trap over time and into your Cesspool.
This is bad on some levels it's sad. Putting a drain cleaning cable down a fresh air vent and thru your house trap makes your house trap weak and then pouring Sulfuric Acid down the fresh air vent is asking for a disaster to happen. If the cable did not break your very expensive to replace House Trap, The Sulfuric Acid may, And if this happens, The Sulfuric Acid will pour out inside your home, Making this clean up a HAZ MAT Clean up that will not be cheap. If you have Insurance, Your Insurance company has the option to cover you and if they have the option to cover you , THEY WILL NOT.
A "Roto Chem" is designed to make fast money for the company you called with absolutely no benefit to the homeowner.
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
The dangers of "Jumping the HouseTrap" by a Drain Cleaning company in Nassau or Suffolk Counties.
"Jumping" The HouseTrap is a very common practice in "Cleaning" a main line. Jumping a HouseTrap is when a "Drain Cleaner" puts a cable thru your round perforated plate on the side of your home. This is what is called a Fresh Air Vent. What the "Drain Cleaner" does not tell you is that if the cable or the cutter on the tip of their cable breaks the HouseTrap, It will cause a massive flood and a very expensive repair bill of replacing the HouseTrap. During the time when the HouseTrap is broken to when it is repaired< YOU CAN NOT USE ANY WATER OR FLUSH A TOILET.
Your "drain Cleaner " will be laughing all the way to the bank as he is most likely paid on commission and will have some extra money in his bank over this.
What is the Homeowner or Property owner to do to not be a victim of this? Have a clean out installed in the Main line leaving your home BEFORE a problem happens.
Please keep in mind that only a Suffolk County Licensed Master Plumber can repair your broken HouseTrap.
How do you tell if the person who comes to your property to replace your HouseTrap? Ask them for their full name and call the Nassau or Suffolk County Department of Consumer Affairs and ask them if the person or people on your property are Licensed Master Plumbers.
This is how a Homeowner or Property owner can protect themselves from being taken advantage of.
Your "drain Cleaner " will be laughing all the way to the bank as he is most likely paid on commission and will have some extra money in his bank over this.
What is the Homeowner or Property owner to do to not be a victim of this? Have a clean out installed in the Main line leaving your home BEFORE a problem happens.
Please keep in mind that only a Suffolk County Licensed Master Plumber can repair your broken HouseTrap.
How do you tell if the person who comes to your property to replace your HouseTrap? Ask them for their full name and call the Nassau or Suffolk County Department of Consumer Affairs and ask them if the person or people on your property are Licensed Master Plumbers.
This is how a Homeowner or Property owner can protect themselves from being taken advantage of.
Monday, May 9, 2016
What a homeowner or landowner MUST DO if the Suffolk or Nassau County Septic,Cesspool company wants to dig on your property.
One thing about Long Island all over is that the ground is "Busy" with all types of "Utilities" from all types of utility companies. There could be Gas, Water , Electric or even Commutation lines that many many homeowners or land owners never knew they where there. If you think it's not easy to hit a utility line on your property, You are very wrong. Another thing is that YOU the owner of the home or land will be responsible to pay for it after the utility company comes out and fixes it for you. Yes you will pay for it and not the cesspool, septic or excavating company. You will pay many thousands of dollars for the repair. Utility company charge backs to the end user are not cheap. They will charge you for everything they d and every person on site and even off site.
How can a Homeowner or Landowner protect themselves from a repair bill from a Utility Company?
If you call a septic, cesspool or excavating company on Long Island, Either Nassau or Suffolk County, You DEMAND a Utility Mark Out performed and demand a "Ticket Number" on what ever company you called, their letterhead or bill head. If they refuse, PROTECT YOURSELF from them and DEMAND they get off your property as they are not professionals. If they do not want to leave, Call the COPS and they will make them leave. Then call your local Code Enforcement and ask them to stop by and tell them that the company you called wanted to dig without a Utility Mark Out.
This will keep you and your home or property safe from them hitting a Utility line that is not known and has not been discovered by a Utility Mark Out.
What could happen if they hit a utility? A gas line can explode, A electric line can KILL them and people around them. A water line can run and erode a giant hole and cut water off for the neighborhood. If this happens this is not good for the homeowner or landowner.
Any tool that probes below the surface can and will do damage to a utility and You get the bill unless you have your "Ducks in a row".
We have been locating underground utilities for many years and have seen first hand what can happen when people do not take our advice.
What we do and have done in the past is do a utility locate for the homeowner or landowner by using advanced locating tools to locate any utility on the property and help protect the homeowner or land owner.
How can a Homeowner or Landowner protect themselves from a repair bill from a Utility Company?
If you call a septic, cesspool or excavating company on Long Island, Either Nassau or Suffolk County, You DEMAND a Utility Mark Out performed and demand a "Ticket Number" on what ever company you called, their letterhead or bill head. If they refuse, PROTECT YOURSELF from them and DEMAND they get off your property as they are not professionals. If they do not want to leave, Call the COPS and they will make them leave. Then call your local Code Enforcement and ask them to stop by and tell them that the company you called wanted to dig without a Utility Mark Out.
This will keep you and your home or property safe from them hitting a Utility line that is not known and has not been discovered by a Utility Mark Out.
What could happen if they hit a utility? A gas line can explode, A electric line can KILL them and people around them. A water line can run and erode a giant hole and cut water off for the neighborhood. If this happens this is not good for the homeowner or landowner.
Any tool that probes below the surface can and will do damage to a utility and You get the bill unless you have your "Ducks in a row".
We have been locating underground utilities for many years and have seen first hand what can happen when people do not take our advice.
What we do and have done in the past is do a utility locate for the homeowner or landowner by using advanced locating tools to locate any utility on the property and help protect the homeowner or land owner.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
How can a homeowner Aerate their own cesspool in Nassau or Suffolk Counties?
In Nassau or Suffolk County, a homeowner can Aerate their own cesspool with just using a portable air compressor that most homeowners own already. Aerating a cesspool using a portable air compressor will help a cesspool drain.
First things first, If you do not know if you have a block or pre cast cesspool in the ground, I suggest you call a Cesspool installer to find out. A Block Cesspool will cave in without notice. If somebody gets hurt on your property because YOU know YOU have a Block Cesspool and YOU did nothing to install a new septic system YOU WILL BD HELD RESPONSIBLE for all damages and not your homeowners insurance. Many people have died in block cesspools on Long Island. If you have a block cesspool, do not aerate it at all. This will make it unstable and cave in.
Do this at YOUR OWN RISK!
Aerating a cesspool from a Air Compressor is simple to do. You need a Air Compressor with a tank, Air Hose and 3/4inch pipe/ between 15 to 20 feet long. Attach the pipe to the air hose and pit it in the cesspool and turn on your air compressor and let it build up pressure. A valve in the air line would help build up pressure by closing it. When the air compressor shuts down from being full of air, You hang onto the pipe that is in the cesspool and have somebody open up the air valve and try to break up the hard crust on the bottom of the cesspool. Becareful of wastewater flying out! Keep this up till you see the cesspool level drop. Do our best to get it to drop to almost dry. It may happen. A good rule of thumb is if the cesspool looks like it's draining, stop aerating the cesspool and give it a few hours to see what it does. You may have to aerate it again.
Do not ever cover up your cesspool but install a inspection port raised to grade for it to breath. It will not smell at all and it will allow air to circulate into it and dry it out. Put a 6inch irrigation valve box cover over the inspection port and have that raised to grade so it's easy to inspect.
Remember to work on your septic or cesspool system at your own risk!
First things first, If you do not know if you have a block or pre cast cesspool in the ground, I suggest you call a Cesspool installer to find out. A Block Cesspool will cave in without notice. If somebody gets hurt on your property because YOU know YOU have a Block Cesspool and YOU did nothing to install a new septic system YOU WILL BD HELD RESPONSIBLE for all damages and not your homeowners insurance. Many people have died in block cesspools on Long Island. If you have a block cesspool, do not aerate it at all. This will make it unstable and cave in.
Do this at YOUR OWN RISK!
Aerating a cesspool from a Air Compressor is simple to do. You need a Air Compressor with a tank, Air Hose and 3/4inch pipe/ between 15 to 20 feet long. Attach the pipe to the air hose and pit it in the cesspool and turn on your air compressor and let it build up pressure. A valve in the air line would help build up pressure by closing it. When the air compressor shuts down from being full of air, You hang onto the pipe that is in the cesspool and have somebody open up the air valve and try to break up the hard crust on the bottom of the cesspool. Becareful of wastewater flying out! Keep this up till you see the cesspool level drop. Do our best to get it to drop to almost dry. It may happen. A good rule of thumb is if the cesspool looks like it's draining, stop aerating the cesspool and give it a few hours to see what it does. You may have to aerate it again.
Do not ever cover up your cesspool but install a inspection port raised to grade for it to breath. It will not smell at all and it will allow air to circulate into it and dry it out. Put a 6inch irrigation valve box cover over the inspection port and have that raised to grade so it's easy to inspect.
Remember to work on your septic or cesspool system at your own risk!
Monday, April 25, 2016
What is actually happening when a cesspool company aerates a cesspool using their pump truck?
When a cesspool company aerates a cesspool off a pump truck, What is happening 98 % of the time is what they just pumped out of your cesspool or septic tank that is now inside their truck, Is used to break up the bottom of your cesspool and then injected into the ground below your cesspool. Mainly they do this to not take what they just pumped from your septic or cesspool system to a treatment plant and charge you for another service.
Septic waste is a Haz Mat waste and must go to a treatment plant. If your septic waste is not going to a treatment plant, The cesspool company made extra money. Keep in mind that you are still responsible for the waste in their pump truck just because. So if they go and dump it illegally somewhere, You are responsible for it including any Haz Mat clean up that the EPA or DEC wants.
Why am I telling you this? If your cesspool pumping company goes and picks up a "Hot load" and does not take it to a Treatment plant and they aerate your cesspool aka inject Haz Mat waste into your cesspool and it leaches away and gets picked up in a local water authority well and they trace it back to you, You are responsible for the clean up that the EPA or DEC wants and not the septic or cesspool company.
Bottom line, If you do call a septic or cesspool company to pump your system NEVER aerate off a pump truck. I do not care what BS sales pitch the commissioned salesman gives you, Never aerate a cesspool off a pump truck.
Read my blog on how you can aerate your own cesspool and save thousands.
Septic waste is a Haz Mat waste and must go to a treatment plant. If your septic waste is not going to a treatment plant, The cesspool company made extra money. Keep in mind that you are still responsible for the waste in their pump truck just because. So if they go and dump it illegally somewhere, You are responsible for it including any Haz Mat clean up that the EPA or DEC wants.
Why am I telling you this? If your cesspool pumping company goes and picks up a "Hot load" and does not take it to a Treatment plant and they aerate your cesspool aka inject Haz Mat waste into your cesspool and it leaches away and gets picked up in a local water authority well and they trace it back to you, You are responsible for the clean up that the EPA or DEC wants and not the septic or cesspool company.
Bottom line, If you do call a septic or cesspool company to pump your system NEVER aerate off a pump truck. I do not care what BS sales pitch the commissioned salesman gives you, Never aerate a cesspool off a pump truck.
Read my blog on how you can aerate your own cesspool and save thousands.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
What can a Nassau Suffolk County Homeowner do to fix a backed up or full septic or cesspool system and not call a Cesspool pumping company?
This is one of the questions we always get from people in the Long Island NY area. There is no great mystery on a septic tank or cesspool system. If you do not give it enough time to drain out, Your septic or cesspool system will back up. You can at that point stop using water until your cesspool drains dry or you can do one of two things to a cesspool that will save you money and you can do it everytime your system backs up.
What's a Homeowner to do?
As a homeowner , You must know what type of system you have and how it is made. If you have a block cesspool you must have a new septic system installed to avoid somebody getting killed in your septic system. Block cesspools have caved in on Long Island and have killed in the past and will kill in the future.
If you have a pre cast system you are in luck and can take care of your septic system yourself and save thousands doing it!
You can take a air compressor and a 15 to 20 foot piece of pipe and attach it to the compressor hose and put it in the cesspool and turn on the air compressor. When it builds up pressure you can try to break up the hard crust on the bottom and get the system to drain. I tell every homeowner to do this till you see the cesspool start to drop.
If you do the above and your cesspools do not drain, You can use what is called a gas powered trash pump and hoses and a long 2 inch pipe. A gas trash pump works the best. You will need a pump hose with a check valve to keep the pump primed and a discharge hose that you can hook up to the 2 inch pipe. With the pipe in the cesspool, Start the trash pump and wait till it starts to pump then start to break up the crust of the cesspool and go as deep as you can with the pipe to try to get your cesspool gray water to pump into the ground. Try to get as much gray water out of it and below the pipe coming into it. When you are done, Let the system rest for days by using very little water. You can use a case of HD PRO Septic Tank Bacteria that can be found at SepticTankBacteria.com.
That's it! Now tell your neighbors in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties how easy it is to take care of your septic system!
What's a Homeowner to do?
As a homeowner , You must know what type of system you have and how it is made. If you have a block cesspool you must have a new septic system installed to avoid somebody getting killed in your septic system. Block cesspools have caved in on Long Island and have killed in the past and will kill in the future.
If you have a pre cast system you are in luck and can take care of your septic system yourself and save thousands doing it!
You can take a air compressor and a 15 to 20 foot piece of pipe and attach it to the compressor hose and put it in the cesspool and turn on the air compressor. When it builds up pressure you can try to break up the hard crust on the bottom and get the system to drain. I tell every homeowner to do this till you see the cesspool start to drop.
If you do the above and your cesspools do not drain, You can use what is called a gas powered trash pump and hoses and a long 2 inch pipe. A gas trash pump works the best. You will need a pump hose with a check valve to keep the pump primed and a discharge hose that you can hook up to the 2 inch pipe. With the pipe in the cesspool, Start the trash pump and wait till it starts to pump then start to break up the crust of the cesspool and go as deep as you can with the pipe to try to get your cesspool gray water to pump into the ground. Try to get as much gray water out of it and below the pipe coming into it. When you are done, Let the system rest for days by using very little water. You can use a case of HD PRO Septic Tank Bacteria that can be found at SepticTankBacteria.com.
That's it! Now tell your neighbors in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties how easy it is to take care of your septic system!
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