Many Florida homes have septic tanks installed for waste collection. Unfortunately for many of these homes, these septic tanks can often be neglected by their owners due to busy work schedules. Most homeowners pay little attention to their septic tanks until they start to overflow, or start to back up into the home’s toilets and drains. When this happens, it can often be an embarrassing situation to deal with. Getting the problem taken care of quickly may involve more than just a simple septic tank cleaning in Apopka FL. When waste backs up into a home, it can often cause clogs in the septic line. Having a professional contractor take care of the problem for you can not only get the septic tank cleaned out properly, but also get any clogs in the septic line taken care of as well.
Septic tanks are simple systems, since they’re mostly just a hole in the ground that collects waste products and waste water from the home. They have a cement lid across their top, which usually prevents rain water from entering them. Sometimes these lids can leak rain water anyway, making tanks fill up prematurely. This is where field lines come into play for septic tanks, by allowing excess water to leave the tank while keeping solid wastes from getting out as well. Some areas require sprinkler systems to be installed with the field lines, to help spread the water out and saturate the ground for recycling purposes.
Getting septic tank cleaning in Apopka FL is often an easy process, since the contractor uses a vacuum truck to do most of the work. Once the lid is removed, your Florida home’s septic system is easy to clean using a water hose and the truck’s vacuum suction to empty it. A long tube will be led from the truck to the tank, and a vacuum will be turned on to start suction. Waste and waste water will then be sucked into the truck’s storage tank for later disposal. Once the tank is emptied out, the contractor will then flush the tank out with a water hose to ensure it’s empty of solid wastes. Some contractors also add treatments to the tank walls, to help reduce any buildups on the walls and inside the tank as it fills up.
