subject: Septic Tank Explained Online [print this page] If you're moving to the country side after living most of your life if not all of it in a built up area or city there will be a few things, which may be different which you'll need to take into consideration. It's quite often the case that people don't realise things can sometimes be different if you life in a small village and they have to find out the hard way once they've moved into a new home, by which point whatever it is you have to put up with. It's worth finding out whether you'll be on central heating via gas or whether your house has an oil tank. Oil tanks can be a bit of a hassle as you need to fill up the tank before you run out and this can be a very costly expense but it does mean you don't have to pay monthly like gas which is always an added bonus.
The other thing you'll need to find out whether you have is a septic tank. A septic tank is generally a tack, which holds between 1,000 and 2,000 gallons of any liquid waste from the house. It's connected to an inlet wastewater pipe and the tank usual has two chambers and both of these have manhole covers. One chamber within the septic tank is for sediment liquids and the other contains surface scum.
What usual happens is that the waste liquid enter through the inlet and the first chamber allows the solids to settle and the scum to float to the surface. The solids from the water, which has entered flows through the dividing wall into the bottom chamber where even more settlement takes place. Once the last amount of settlement takes place the final liquid (which by this point is very clear) then soaks through into a leach field. A leach field is a part of your garden or surrounding grounds or pastures where the clear liquid soaks into so that the septic tank is only filled with solid waste.
I hope this brief description has allowed you to understand what a septic tank is and that you may need to consider sewage collection if you live in the countryside. If you have a tank you should only need to have sewage collection one every four or five years.
Dont forget that cesspits are a completely different thing so its worth making sure you know exactly what your new house has.
by: Joan Smith
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