Is it possible to use a garden hose in a septic tank to help draining the water out? We had ours pumped yesterday and with leech field problems and a lot of rain - it is full again today. I need to find a way to get the water out without spending the whole day filling up a bucket. Hubby says using a garden hose won't work.

It will work but you will need to get the entire hose below the water level in the Septic tank. Are you saying you filled your septic tank in 1 day? Sounds like you may have a crack in it letting ground water in.

If you keep it, in the "water" also small pumps will work. I have done it in the past.

Why are you doing this? If you have leach field problems you should address them, not be trying to manually empty the septic tank. What are you doing with the gray water you are taking out. If you are just dumping it on the ground you may as well just cut the drainage line and let it flow out by itself.

Septic tanks are always full, they don't begin to work until they are full. The purpose of pumping a septic tank is to get out the stuff that doesn't dissolve and settles to the bottom, not to empty the tank.

Agree with Brian, depending on the size of the tank and how much water you use, you may have a cracked tank. If you are not properly disposing of what you are bucketing out, you are creating a health hazard.