THE THREAD!!!

[RangerJoe]

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Not going at all. I am sitting down. [:)]

That is good. Laying down with something that is nice and comfortable is better though. [;)]

And yet, that doesn't look comfortable.

She does not look comfortable? [&:]

[RangerJoe]

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H all,

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Hi Leo, yes it's a brand new street and development. Was farm land a little over a year ago. All the utilities that we will have are already installed along the road, electricity, gas, cable, and phone. There won't be any municipal water supply or sewage, which is very common in less urban areas here. Instead, we have our well and the septic tank system.

RGR!

Do you have to have special filter for the water from the well?

Also, how often you have to empty the septic tank? Would you have to use it sparingly and not, for example, shower that often?

My aunt had this in her summer house on the Adriatic Coast (island of Krk) and she always reminded me to shower in the garden and not in the bathroom in the summer (i.e. water in the garden would go to ground and water in the bathroom would go to septic tank which had definite capacity and had to be emptied and that had to be paid for)...


Leo "Apollo11"



Leo "Apolo11"

My brother, while in the air force, was stationed on Crete....GP

Septic tanks settle out the solids while the liquids either have a drain field or a mound system to get rid of the liquids. Depending upon the usage and the size of the tank, it may be pumped out more than once a year or every few years. The tanks are usually between 500 and 1000 US gallons in size.

It sounds like someone just had a holding tank and not a septic system.

Crete is part of NATO an so is the US. So American military personnel may have been stationed on Crete and may still be stationed there. If they go native and stay there, then they would be Cretans. [;)]

[RangerJoe]

Good morning!

Time to make a beverage from roasted berry seeds! [:D]

[RangerJoe]

INP!!!

[USSAmerica]

Good morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

[RangerJoe]

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Good morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

H all,

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Mike, so this is brand new street with all those new build houses?

All utilities present?

Hi Leo, yes it's a brand new street and development. Was farm land a little over a year ago. All the utilities that we will have are already installed along the road, electricity, gas, cable, and phone. There won't be any municipal water supply or sewage, which is very common in less urban areas here. Instead, we have our well and the septic tank system.

RGR!

Do you have to have special filter for the water from the well?

Also, how often you have to empty the septic tank? Would you have to use it sparingly and not, for example, shower that often?

My aunt had this in her summer house on the Adriatic Coast (island of Krk) and she always reminded me to shower in the garden and not in the bathroom in the summer (i.e. water in the garden would go to ground and water in the bathroom would go to septic tank which had definite capacity and had to be emptied and that had to be paid for)...


Leo "Apollo11"



Leo "Apolo11"

Hi Leo,

We're fortunate that the ground/well water in our area is pretty good quality. We won't need a water softener or anything like that to remove excess minerals from the water. We will be sure to get the water tested independently after we move in to make sure there is zero contamination, but the county will also be doing that.

As for the septic system, as RJ mentioned earlier, the tank is just to catch the solids and contains bacteria and enzymes that will break the solids down. Liquids will flow out of the tank and be spread in a dispersal field which is several pipes with little drain holes, all buried a few feet underground in an area where it will drain well into the soil. Part of the reason our lot is so large is that the only area with acceptable soil consistency and depth for the drain field is in the back half of the property.

The tank likely won't need to have the solids pumped out more frequently than every 3-5 years, especially since only two of us will be living in the house. The systems design capacity is for 4 bedrooms and 8 people, so we won't be taxing even a little bit. The bottom line is that as long as we are careful about keeping solids from going down the sink drains (grease, food debris, etc) we shouldn't even have to think about how much we are using the water and drain systems. [:)]

[USSAmerica]

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Good morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

That is a good start to a day, even though I've never been so fortunate on my bike rides. [:D]

[btd64]

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

Good morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

That is a good start to a day, even though I've never been so fortunate on my bike rides. [:D]

Had a similar experience back in my college days [;)]. It was interesting....GP

[RangerJoe]

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H all,

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Hi Leo, yes it's a brand new street and development. Was farm land a little over a year ago. All the utilities that we will have are already installed along the road, electricity, gas, cable, and phone. There won't be any municipal water supply or sewage, which is very common in less urban areas here. Instead, we have our well and the septic tank system.

RGR!

Do you have to have special filter for the water from the well?

Also, how often you have to empty the septic tank? Would you have to use it sparingly and not, for example, shower that often?

My aunt had this in her summer house on the Adriatic Coast (island of Krk) and she always reminded me to shower in the garden and not in the bathroom in the summer (i.e. water in the garden would go to ground and water in the bathroom would go to septic tank which had definite capacity and had to be emptied and that had to be paid for)...


Leo "Apollo11"



Leo "Apolo11"

Hi Leo,

We're fortunate that the ground/well water in our area is pretty good quality. We won't need a water softener or anything like that to remove excess minerals from the water. We will be sure to get the water tested independently after we move in to make sure there is zero contamination, but the county will also be doing that.

As for the septic system, as RJ mentioned earlier, the tank is just to catch the solids and contains bacteria and enzymes that will break the solids down. Liquids will flow out of the tank and be spread in a dispersal field which is several pipes with little drain holes, all buried a few feet underground in an area where it will drain well into the soil. Part of the reason our lot is so large is that the only area with acceptable soil consistency and depth for the drain field is in the back half of the property.

The tank likely won't need to have the solids pumped out more frequently than every 3-5 years, especially since only two of us will be living in the house. The systems design capacity is for 4 bedrooms and 8 people, so we won't be taxing even a little bit. The bottom line is that as long as we are careful about keeping solids from going down the sink drains (grease, food debris, etc) we shouldn't even have to think about how much we are using the water and drain systems. [:)]

My stepmother's brother-in-law in a California desert community pumped out the septic system into the yard then planted grass. It stank for awhile but the grass grew very well.

So I guess that you won't have a garbage disposal unit under the sink to grind up food scraps and send them on their way. Just start a compost pile which will help your plants out.

[USSAmerica]

Indeed, garbage disposals are out. A compost pile is very likely with the room we are going to have.

I do NOT plan to pump out the septic tank into the yard! [:D]

[BBfanboy]

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Indeed, garbage disposals are out. A compost pile is very likely with the room we are going to have.

I do NOT plan to pump out the septic tank into the yard! [:D]

Maybe you could convince the neighbour that it is good for his yard if you pump the sewage there. Think of the saving on pick-up fees for the waste! [:D]

[RangerJoe]

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ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

Indeed, garbage disposals are out. A compost pile is very likely with the room we are going to have.

I do NOT plan to pump out the septic tank into the yard! [:D]

Maybe you could convince the neighbour that it is good for his yard if you pump the sewage there. Think of the saving on pick-up fees for the waste! [:D]

Or pump it across the road onto the pasture . . . [;)]

[Orm]

Good morning Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Crete is part of NATO an so is the US. So American military personnel may have been stationed on Crete and may still be stationed there. If they go native and stay there, then they would be Cretans. [;)]

Greece is part of NATO, and Crete is part of Greece. [;)]

Crete has an important NATO naval base that has a lot of US military personnel. I seem to recall that the Cretans referred to Souda Naval Base as a US base. I suspect that the high number of US sailors was the reason for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete_Naval_Base

And a picture of a beauty making a stop on Crete.


USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) arrives for a logistics stop on the Greek island of Crete.jpg

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: USSAmerica



Hi Leo, yes it's a brand new street and development. Was farm land a little over a year ago. All the utilities that we will have are already installed along the road, electricity, gas, cable, and phone. There won't be any municipal water supply or sewage, which is very common in less urban areas here. Instead, we have our well and the septic tank system.

RGR!

Do you have to have special filter for the water from the well?

Also, how often you have to empty the septic tank? Would you have to use it sparingly and not, for example, shower that often?

My aunt had this in her summer house on the Adriatic Coast (island of Krk) and she always reminded me to shower in the garden and not in the bathroom in the summer (i.e. water in the garden would go to ground and water in the bathroom would go to septic tank which had definite capacity and had to be emptied and that had to be paid for)...

Hi Leo,

We're fortunate that the ground/well water in our area is pretty good quality. We won't need a water softener or anything like that to remove excess minerals from the water. We will be sure to get the water tested independently after we move in to make sure there is zero contamination, but the county will also be doing that.

As for the septic system, as RJ mentioned earlier, the tank is just to catch the solids and contains bacteria and enzymes that will break the solids down. Liquids will flow out of the tank and be spread in a dispersal field which is several pipes with little drain holes, all buried a few feet underground in an area where it will drain well into the soil. Part of the reason our lot is so large is that the only area with acceptable soil consistency and depth for the drain field is in the back half of the property.

The tank likely won't need to have the solids pumped out more frequently than every 3-5 years, especially since only two of us will be living in the house. The systems design capacity is for 4 bedrooms and 8 people, so we won't be taxing even a little bit. The bottom line is that as long as we are careful about keeping solids from going down the sink drains (grease, food debris, etc) we shouldn't even have to think about how much we are using the water and drain systems. [:)]

OK... I see... [:)]

My aunt had bedrock and the septic tank was solid concrete box with finite capacity and contained both solids and liquids... all had to be pumped out once every month if I recall...



Leo "Apollo11"

[btd64]

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

H all,

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica



Hi Leo, yes it's a brand new street and development. Was farm land a little over a year ago. All the utilities that we will have are already installed along the road, electricity, gas, cable, and phone. There won't be any municipal water supply or sewage, which is very common in less urban areas here. Instead, we have our well and the septic tank system.

RGR!

Do you have to have special filter for the water from the well?

Also, how often you have to empty the septic tank? Would you have to use it sparingly and not, for example, shower that often?

My aunt had this in her summer house on the Adriatic Coast (island of Krk) and she always reminded me to shower in the garden and not in the bathroom in the summer (i.e. water in the garden would go to ground and water in the bathroom would go to septic tank which had definite capacity and had to be emptied and that had to be paid for)...


Leo "Apollo11"



Leo "Apolo11"

Hi Leo,

We're fortunate that the ground/well water in our area is pretty good quality. We won't need a water softener or anything like that to remove excess minerals from the water. We will be sure to get the water tested independently after we move in to make sure there is zero contamination, but the county will also be doing that.

As for the septic system, as RJ mentioned earlier, the tank is just to catch the solids and contains bacteria and enzymes that will break the solids down. Liquids will flow out of the tank and be spread in a dispersal field which is several pipes with little drain holes, all buried a few feet underground in an area where it will drain well into the soil. Part of the reason our lot is so large is that the only area with acceptable soil consistency and depth for the drain field is in the back half of the property.

The tank likely won't need to have the solids pumped out more frequently than every 3-5 years, especially since only two of us will be living in the house. The systems design capacity is for 4 bedrooms and 8 people, so we won't be taxing even a little bit. The bottom line is that as long as we are careful about keeping solids from going down the sink drains (grease, food debris, etc) we shouldn't even have to think about how much we are using the water and drain systems. [:)]

Make sure that you have the leaching field and all of your underground pipes and equipment marked out when you put in the pool. When I lived in Massachusetts and worked for an architect, one of our clients was putting in a pool after we did an addition to the house and the guys drove heavy equipment over the leaching field and destroyed it. Now maybe they do something different these days but just be careful....GP

[btd64]

Good morning everyone....GP

[fcooke]

Also mark out any wellheads, buried propane tanks, or oil tanks (cannot bury those here anymore but that vary by state). When they came to shoot the gunnite for our pool one of the cement trucks drove over and had parked on one of wellheads. I didn't realize it until I went to the basement and heard strange creaking noises coming from the room where the well water comes into the house and the softener and UV equipment is. That's when I went outside and saw the truck - with the heavy sitting directly on the well. Got the truck moved and thankfully the creaking went away and we had no long term damage. Though they did their best to try and break it later in the day. The cement truck carrying dry cement, so they hooked up to a few outdoor spigots so they mix it in a machine attached to a large pressured hose and they could 'fire' the fresh mix into the form of the pool (pretty cool actually). But the process uses a LOT of water and they ran the well dry. If they had kept trying to pull on a dry well for too long they would likely have burned out the pump motor. Thankfully they stopped. So I thought they were done for the day while the well refilled. Not so! They run a large hose down to our pond, connected to a large pump and used that to finish. I'm thinking to myself - couldn't you have done it that way from the beginning? But did not say anything. A previous pool story was we started to dig it out we found the septic right smack in the middle of the pool, so now need a new septic, since it was not possible to move the pool. So call one of the engineering firms and talk to the owner there, tell him what has happened. He's on about incapable engineering companies and what idiots they are. We set up a meeting and he comes out and asks for the site plan. We unroll it and I hadn't done it before but I checked the plan to see what 'idiot' engineering had messed up. It was his! And then the backtracking began. If it was old he would not have known where it was. So why did you guess? Instead of just saying 'not found'? I should have sued him. True story. The other 'fun' part was his plans did have a provision for placement of a new field, but now needed to see if it was legal. He have a fair bit of property, and our well and house are very close to the road. 100 foot setbacks from roads neighbor's property line, the pond, pool etc. The house and well are grandfathered from the 100' thing. With a little movement of his proposed location, we made it work without going into pumps etc. Sorry for the long post, but I thought a story worth sharing.