Where do you live that 3" PVC can't be found? Regards, Tom[/QUOTE
It not that we could not find it, we could not find any we could afford. My husband and I have both been laid off from work and are struggling to make ends meet. I went from working in hospital to working in fast food. It is honest work, just a lot less pay. We left the other 4 chambers hooked up. We have been told our system work like this: Water fills in tank and runs out to fifth chamber, when it fills with water, the water back up to the fourth chamber, when it fills up the water just keeps moving up the line. When the first line finally fills up the other 4 are susposed to have already percolated into dirt and the whole process repeats itself. Ours does not quite work that well, system was half-assed when it was put in, this was 3 years before we moved into home. When last chamber would fill with water, it would not move up to other chamber, it would just blow out PVC pipe leading into chamber and we would have standing water in backyard. We removed the last chamber, hoping the other 4 would take over,it had collapsed. But alas, this did not happen. The one inch pipe starts almost 45 feet away from the septic tank, and runs the length of almost 75 feet straight downhill from tank to leach pit. We have a family of 5 with a 1500 gallon tank. When we cut into the pipe to hook leach pit pipe to it we have a constant trickle of water. We are going today to get innerds for toilets. I am afraid this is not going to work. My husband and I get out there and dig by hand. This is getting really old. We have dug and dug. It is not fun digging a trench 3 or 4 foot deep and almost 100 feet long in clay. And I do not want to have to dig back up when water backs into house.
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