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!