YA BUT, people with septic tanks SHOULD NOT use the garbage disposal.
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YA BUT, people with septic tanks SHOULD NOT use the garbage disposal.
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ya, but, did you flush it?
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Rediculous. Millions of people prove you wrong every day. Stick to the proper pumping schedule and there's no problem. The same applies to people without garbage disposals.
and millions of people have septic problems.
case closed.
on 10/1/2007 4:49 PM SteveB said the following:
The less you put in a septic system, the longer the time between cleanings. Do you have a septic system? Do you know what pumping a septic system costs? Where I live, it is $400, and last time, I had the dry well pumped at the same time for a grand total of $800.
Learn from folks who deal with septic systems for a living (Control+F the page for garbage):
I apologize. It's been a long day, and the brain surgery didn't go that well.
I must have gotten my wires crossed. I thought the person inferred that it was okay to flush tampons. I guess too many no's not's and whatever in the same sentence. Maybe it's these glasses.
Didn't Frank Zappa have a song that had a line in it about flushing "tampoons"?
Steve, who doesn't think it's a good idea to put anything but sewage into a septic tank.
As an aside, at our mountain cabin, we have two trash cans in the bathroom. We have a sign that asks guests to please put TP in the flip up lid trash can. Then it says, "But, if it's REALLY brown, send it down."
Steve
I totally agree. Once I asked a septic guy about that, and he said, "It's partially digested food, isn't it? It's the same as crap."
Maybe so, and I DO have a garbage disposal on a septic tank, but I still don't send a lot down it. Hardly anything. We now have a compost pile, so that makes it a little easier. Trash guy comes once a week here in the country, and stuff can get real skanky in a week. The compost pile is going to help.
Steve
What kind of problems? You send it down, no problem. You're supposed to have it pumped? I've heard of people with 75 year old systems that have NEVER been pumped. What kind of problems could anyone have with something so simple as a septic system?
Steve ( It's a joke, son. Ahhhh joke Ahhh said. - Foghorn Leghorn)
Wow! Here in upstate NY boonie-ville it has never cost more than $225, and I've been here 25 years. I've have it pumped about 5 times, and it's never been more than half to three-quarters full.
Yes, I have a septic tank, and it is about $400.
Steve
Best way to stop this practice, is to tell the females in the house that the septic tank pump operator will see them floating on top the the liquid in the tank. Most women want them to disappear and not to have anyone to see them, which doesn't happen with septic tanks.
Do you dry it out and re-use it?
No, just toss it into the trash. What else would we do with it?
Steve
Well, on airplanes, they used to provide a little stack of waxed-paper bags to containerize things like sanitary products and used diapers- probably at the behest of the ground crew that gets to empty the trash chute in the cans. I imagine those bags are available somewhere to civilians.
I worked one semester in college as a night shift janitor on campus. The ladies bathrooms were always the nastiest rooms on the list for the night.
aem sends...
Agreed, putting any type of solids into a septic system, especially nice fine clumpy stuff, just is not a good practice.
Apparently he has never heard of the tank cleaners cussing out the "white sewer rats" they have to deal with.
Harry K
I worked as a "Corrections Officer" (read Jailer or Turnkey, there is no "Corrections" involved in that job). Female Work Release had a neat little 'Sanitary Napkins" box on the wall. It disappeared the first time I had to empty it.
Harry K
And millions of people have traffic accidents. That millions of people do something does not make it right.
Harry K
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