Sewers

Does a septic system need to get pumped out? What other types of sewer systems are there and which is best?

Typically, I clean (snake) my sewer once a year. There are 3 of us living in the house. Does anyone have any alternative advice or suggestions of th...

I recently bought a house with its own personal sewer system. My toilet started backing up and bubbling when I run water out of the tub. I now noticed...

how much would the tank of a sanitary sewer system cost if it holds 31,000 gallons? i mean septic, lol. yes eptic tank and made of concrete.

Seems most of the homes have the sewer system back up located in the home, is this normal?

I am looking at a log house and it has a greenhouse on the property, 17 acres and a detached garage with an extra barn for storage. It has well water...

I bought a house 7 months ago that contains terracotta sewer pipes. Recently I have been experiencing some backup due to the main sewer line being cl...

This weekend I have a backhoe guy coming and will run a a new sewer line from my house to the main sewer because the clay pipe has collapsed. iI only ...

I have a house that was built in the '60s and would like to have a new sewer line tied into the main for my washing machine. There is a cap on th...

My sewer line drains really slow but it does drain. The problem is when I do laundry and then have a huge influx of water when the washer drains. If ...

I have read information about rock salt helping to keep roots from growing in sewer sewer line, or copper sulfate which is also a salt. Would installi...

Home to main sewer line.

And how do you tell which one you've got? From what I have read, it seems like they are exactly the same thing. They both can pump clean water a...

my sewer pump pushes the waste up from my basement to the sanitary sewer.when the wind is blowing from a certain direction, the house smells of sewer ...

There are no phone numbers or information on the alarm or the sewer pump, and I can't find any info online. Help!?! If I could get away with fixin...

We have septic and are hooking up to the new sewer lines they are putting in. My question is who will be responsible if there is ever a problem with t...

My main sewerline is 5ft above ground and a 15ft sewer pipe going to it

I recently bought a house with its own personal sewer system. My toilet started backing up and bubbling when I run water out of the tub. I now noticed...

I am not sure what it is but my bathroom smells like sewer gas, is this smell bad for us (and our children). What can we do to fix this horrible smell...

We have been having sewer gas come into the house . We do not have a basement but we have a building where a floor drain is connected to the house dr...

Massive amounts of electricity can be generated from sewer gas which is a byproduct of sewage treatment. The odd explosion and the dumping gas into th...

in my basement utility room i smell sewer gas (methane) only when cloths washer drains.. all traps have water in them and there are no open pipes anyw...

I have lived in Toronto, Canada for most of my life, and I have gotten to the point where the sewer gas smells (particularly, near the humber treatmen...

I smell sewer gas in the sink drain.It looks as though the sink waste pipe has not been vented it just drains.could this be the reason.The trap has wa...

We are having an argument that toilet paper is bad for the sewer lines. Do you know of any research on this topic?

I have purchased sulfuric acid clog remover. Before I use it i would like to know if it harms the drain pipes. Also if it works good on clogs.

Basement toilet fills with water but doesn't flush. Last flush caused a foul sewer smell under the stairs where the pump is. The alarm didn't go off...

The sewer line is clogged on city (Pasadena, CA) property and is backing up into our house. We have all been getting sick the last couple of months! T...

There's a cement square on my back patio that water was coming out of. I lifted it up and see that it's a big sewer pipe about as wide as a typical b...

What can i use to stop the tree roots from clogging the sewer line other than getting rid of the tree?