It's helpfully marked in black goo.

ha new term, cool
or a rice paddy

Is that water atop the leach field, where a pipe connects the tank to the leach field, or the pipe that goes from the basement to the tank?

Black goo means texas tea. Ask to purchase the mineral rights.

It is two feet around the pipe in the field. Nothing is in the basement. Yet.

Never said anything about fluids in the basement. A basement reference was about where to look for a pipe (outside) that connects to the tank.

Likely is a clogged or broken pipe that flows into the leach field. Nothing short of digging will find or fix this type of problem.

Your ground perks so well that nothing short of a blocked pipe can result in surface fluids. Management is apparently trying to ignore or avoid the inevitable.

Any signs in your neighborhood that say, "Do not dig. Buckeye Partners."?

http://cellar.org/2013/septic1.jpg

http://cellar.org/2013/septic2.jpg

http://cellar.org/2013/septic3.jpg

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Well the first thing ya know old Toad's a millionaire...

*guffaw*

Maybe start building a fertilizer factory. Raw materials already available.

Cannot say from pictures where the tank is located. Sometimes a tank is so close to the surface that grass above tends to die. So that the field is lower than the tank.

Septic systems typically have no vent. That 'vent' may be a cleanout installed because this has occurred previously. But again, what does the cleanout connect to? Pipe from basement to tank? Or pipe from tank to leach field.

Critical is for vents to exist instead on the roof (ie above bathrooms and kitchen).

Bacteria would not solve anything. A clog of some kind clearly exists. That water would be the daily useage by one person emptying onto sandy (good perking) soil. Virtually all sewage is empyting on the lawn. Nothing less (short of digging it up for inspection/repair) will solve it.

A cheap landlord wants to cut costs - ie bacteria. A landlord who saves money would have called a plumber immediately. With that cleanout, a problem might have been elininated in only one hour.

Rather surprised. In a location that urban, sewers would have long been required by the State of NJ. Your example is why so many towns had to eliminate septic systems. Too many cheatskates wanted to cut costs; refused to fix the actual problem. Caused too many health problems and polluted waterways.

Possible that problem has always existed. That fixing a leach field means he must connect to city sewers. So he just kept sending a guy out with bacteria - to cut costs and ignore an actual defect. To avoid having to connect to city sewers. Do sewers (ie manholes) exist?

Detail, plumber sent out earlier in thread was able to clear complete blockage overnight and establish drainage that lasted 4 months. Previous complete blockage had led to sewage backup into house.

RE company uses several different plumbers of generally low quality.

Female owns RE company, her daughter is the agent I work with.

Prefer to stay at this location, do not want to move again

Any area Dwellars need a roomie?

My credit score is 25. Is that bad?

All I need is a little cottage house in an area where I won't get killed. (And has high speed Internets)





*sigh* There's a good chance I have to bolt, because this place has met its match. It's an ex-dwelling, it has ceased to be livable.

Last summer they cleared up the septic issue that this thread detailed. That was good, because I was going to have to leave. At the same time, there appeared a leak in the roof. I forget if I told y'all that part.

The leak was pretty minor and I knew the owner did not have any money, so I told them, between the two issues, fix the septic first, because it's actually illegal. And in the mean time, I have never used the room where the leak is and don't intend to. I set up a tarp that drained all the leak water into a 5 gallon bucket.

So they never addressed the leak and now, as leaks always always do, it has gotten worse; until now there are multiple leaks, the room is a disaster area, my tarps can no longer hold, and the leaks fill a 5 gallon bucket in 8 hours.

Last week they sent a roofer out to look at the situation and he was appalled. On Tuesday I informed them that the situation had gotten worse with the last rain. They have not gotten back to me. It looks like I will have to move in a hurry, in the middle of winter, to a more expensive place.

This place is a shithole. But I don't want to leave. It's cheap for the area. Moving is a pain in the ass. There is a small chance they will figure out how to get the roof patched soon enough. I hope that happens.

Aw crap, sorry to hear that, if the roof is that bad a heavy snow could spell disaster. Unfortunately that damp location requires dedicated constant maintenance. Not something it's likely to get from a tenant who's passing through, property management company trying to keep costs down, or an absentee landlord.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but if I were the landlord, I'd fix the damn roof. Sister any rotten rafters and nail a new deck down. Shingle over that. Hiring it out would cost a few thousand, but it's money well worth it if he can keep a low maintenance tenant.

If they lose you and then fix the roof so they can rent it out again, they won't be able to find anyone as accommodating who can also pay rent.

I would rather not wait until the disaster to leave -- unless I am going to get a check out of it, in which case, let the damn thing fall, it will be exciting.

Can't afford much else. I should really start moving things into a storage unit but what if they decide to patch?

How long a commute can you stand?