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    arielshai Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Oct 16, 2014, 07:41 PM
    How to get water to go uphill
    My septic tank, which was recently installed, has become difficult to hook up to the existing pipes coming from the house. It appears that the pipes coming out of the house are already higher than the inlet on the septic. Thus, gravity takes the waste out of the house, and then can not pass the uphill battle to the septic inlet.
    Ideas?
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    Oct 16, 2014, 07:57 PM
    Get the idiots that recently installed it wrong to come back and do it right... or sue them. Basic law of physics water nuns downhill, not uphill.
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    Oct 16, 2014, 08:56 PM
    "pipes coming out of the house are already higher than the inlet on the septic". They should be. If the pipes are higher, they would flow DOWN to the tank. Did I misinterpret?
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    Oct 17, 2014, 03:23 AM
    Opps... my bad. ma0641, you are correct after going back and reading it again. The house SHOULD be higher than the septic as it apparently is. I misread it last night when I answered.

    Quote Originally Posted by arielshai View Post
    My septic tank, which was recently installed, has become difficult to hook up to the existing pipes coming from the house. It appears that the pipes coming out of the house are already higher than the inlet on the septic..
    Ideas?
    But then they go on to say
    Quote Originally Posted by arielshai View Post
    Thus, gravity takes the waste out of the house, and then can not pass the uphill battle to the septic inlet.
    Ideas?
    WHich conflicts with their original statement? The original poster needs to come back and clarify which statement is correct and which is incorrect.
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    Oct 17, 2014, 07:09 AM
    Confusing to say the least. Can't have it both ways. Care to clear that up? Back to you, Tom
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