We’ve had toilet trouble for awhile now. Thursday was one of those “ITYS” days for Frank.
Cloggy toilets are no fun to live with. We have five people living here, all who use the plumbing. That makes for some busy rooms throughout the day. And since one of those people is not yet Three years old [Sept 13, 2003!] there’s a tendancy for more than what’s supposed to go into a toilet, to actually go into a toilet.
So the last month to two months, the plunger and snake have been employed often. Bad days, decent days, bad days, flooding days. It’s been no fun. All along I’ve said that the septic tank needed emptied. We’ve been here since Nov 1997. So, finally, with a toilet uninstalled yesterday, Frank saw that it wasn’t going to be solved with any kind of snake … and called a septic company.
So we now have a basement toilet that flushes just fine. And it doesn’t bubble when the hall upstairs toilet is flushed, or the washing machine starts to drain. That’s the simplistic description, to spare gory details.
Well, it was an educational day for the youngun’s. They saw it all. If that’s all a septic tank is for … to educate young minds as to how things work, it’s a good thing. Well, it’s more than that. It’s useful for homes, no monthly sewage costs from the city or county. And then to get get it pumped out every 3-5 years … if it’s done proactively, it’s not expensve.
To be on the other end of it, it’s a lucrative business. Just look around when out and about, what kind of slogans are on septic tanks, bumper stickers of septic business owners? It’s cute, in a dirty way. Hey, we all understand it though. It’s part of being an organic being.