When we first bought this house, over three years ago, our time-frame was to open the B&B in about three years. Yes, I guess you could say that we've reached that three year deadline. We tend to think that no, we haven't, because it is still, oh, about "three years" until we open.
Three years later also means that it was time to have our septic tank pumped, per township requirements. When the system was installed, the installer told us to flip a switch each year to switch the tanks. We could never figure out how to do this and where the heck the switch was, so we waited until the septic guys came to pump it for an explanation.
Well, there is no switch. There are two septic tanks, but they're designed to overflow into each other, not be switched back and forth. It has left Tim and me shaking our heads about how we both misunderstood that, but clearly we did. No harm done.
The only problem they encountered was that there were big branches in the bottom of the first tank blocking the overflow into the second tank. I would think that would've been something the installers would have picked up on, but they didn't. The upper overflow was not working well because the top of the sewage is mostly solids. So, the first tank was full and the second tank was mostly empty. Still, nothing was over-full and no harm was done there either.
The septic field was just fine, so all-in-all our "new" septic is working just as it should and definitely has the capacity needed for this house and the upcoming B&B.
As much as I hate to say it out loud, something went right. Knock on wood.
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