How can I identify a bad sewage smell in my living room? [more inside]
posted by metajc on Nov 23, 2008 - 6 answers

How do I clean my paint rollers in a house with a septic system? [more inside]
posted by bDiddy on Apr 23, 2008 - 13 answers

My wife paints with oils. We're buying a house with a septic system. Will cleaning brushes in the sink be a problem? [more inside]
posted by nevercalm on Mar 25, 2008 - 8 answers

I was recently in Guatemala and I know that there and in most of Central America and many other third world countries you can't flush toilet paper because their septic systems can't handle it. What's the difference between our (More Developed Countries) septic systems and theirs (Less Developed Countries) that ours can handle it? Is it a matter of water flow, sanitation processes, etc?
posted by bobdylanforever on Feb 8, 2008 - 10 answers

Is it wise to setup a gray water system when you have a septic tank? [more inside]
posted by TauLepton on Nov 4, 2007 - 8 answers

How do I find my septic tank? [more inside]
posted by MtDewd on Jul 28, 2007 - 20 answers

My husband thinks that the occasional quarter inch of food in the disposal will destroy our septic system. I could appreciate his paranoia, if, perhaps, I were stuffing a ham down the drain or putting a pot of boiling oil. However, this evening, a small scrap of a sole fillet fell into the drain and you would have thought that I had boobytrapped the entire system. Is it possible to ruin one's septic system from the occasional food scrap (and, I mean "scrap", i.e., no more than a nub)?
posted by flyingrock on Jun 1, 2007 - 11 answers

For the second time, I just found a live earthworm in our basement toilet. [more inside]
posted by arielmeadow on Jan 1, 2006 - 9 answers

HomeownerFilter: Do cesspool bacterial treatments do anything? [more inside]
posted by ObscureReferenceMan on Oct 19, 2005 - 6 answers

I'm thinking about buying a house that's out in the country a little bit. It's on a septic system. It's a new construction that the contractor built and is living in while he builds the one next to it. The septic system is reported to be a "Low Pressure Drip System for Residential Sewers" made by Murdon. Is this good/bad/potentially costly? [more inside]
posted by ontic on May 11, 2005 - 4 answers

Where are tour buses, like the kind bands travel around on, supposed to dump their septic tanks? This obviously isn't the proper method, so where?
posted by cmonkey on Aug 29, 2004 - 5 answers