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!
Thursday, April 28, 2016
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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