Septic Tank Service

[Zee09]

Prices really went up like everything else. My old guy retired so I got a new company. $220 to clean out a 1500 gallon tank. He was 3 hrs late but I wasn't overly annoyed. The price was right.

He took $20 off for the wait.
I had others quote $350.

I clean mine out every other year.
What are the prices in your area?
This was in Maryland

 

[RhondaHonda]

Seems pretty reasonable to haul a bunch of crap. I pay $65/month for sewer service if that helps make it easier to swallow.

 

[k1xv]

I always like the catchy humorous slogans on the trucks. Such as

"We're Number One in Number Two"

"Our business stinks"

"Yesterday's Meals on Wheels"

 

[Zee09]

Seems pretty reasonable to haul a bunch of crap. I pay $65/month for sewer service if that helps make it easier to swallow.

I don't like how you used crap and swallow in the same paragraph.

 

[walterjay]

I think I paid $320.00 last year. I normally pump out every two years. But with price increases and us being down to two people I will pump only as necessary. I will check the solids layer yearly. Should be able to do 4 years.
BTW I used to be a state certified septic system inspector. I quit that for obvious reasons.

 

[vwmaniaman]

Here in Western Kentucky I paid $500 4 years ago. I hate to think what it will be this time. Need it done this spring.

 

[SevenBizzos]

It's been a bit, but I seem to remember a 1000G pump being around $250. If I extrapolate that with 50% more volume and inflation, it looks like you paid a good price. I used to be like @walterjay, but moved more indoors for current work duties.....

 

[ls1mike]

I get mine done every 3 years. Last year I put risers in, so I don't have to dig it up.
Just to pump it was $350.00. That is in the Seattle area. I have a 1500-gallon tank.

 

[Ausfahrt]

I paid $15000 for a new drainfield at our old house a year before we sold it so I don't mind $350 a year to pump my sump.

 

[supton]

I need to get a riser or a better area to mark mine, put it off an extra year, so I really need to have it pumped this year. My fear though is all the trees that aren't mine that are stupid close to my field. Very pretty trees, but... fingers crossed. My old house I had the same sized tank (1,500 gallon) and would do every other year or so. No sink disposal, keep paper going down the drain to a min. Some day I should get a bidet and then maybe the tank won't need flushing but every decade?

$350 sounds about what I paid pre-pandemic, so I'm sure it's closer to $500 now.

 

[Pablo]

Mine was $500

But the girl was not ugly (that was very............unsettling)

Plus she pumped anything out of the bottom of my final tank. Pretty sweet really. Mostly they never bother.

 

[loneryder]

Prices really went up like everything else. My old guy retired so I got a new company. $220 to clean out a 1500 gallon tank. He was 3 hrs late but I wasn't overly annoyed. The price was right.

He took $20 off for the wait.
I had others quote $350.

I clean mine out every other year.
What are the prices in your area?
This was in Maryland

Don’t you have leach lines?

 

[loneryder]

I always like the catchy humorous slogans on the trucks. Such as

"We're Number One in Number Two"

"Our business stinks"

"Yesterday's Meals on Wheels"

Politicians promises inside.

 

[JTK]

I've got a 50yr/old system. 1000g concrete tank. I get it pumped every 2-3yrs. I paid $280 2-3yrs ago.

 

[walterjay]

A few years ago my local septic pumper had his daughter out pumping tanks. She was a real doll.

 

[k1xv]

I understand its a business flush with profits.

 

[benjamming]

Why are y'all pumping the tank so often? Ours has not needed it in 17 years. Installed 2006. Field lines with filter prior.

 

[97prizm]

I always like the catchy humorous slogans on the trucks. Such as

"We're Number One in Number Two"

"Our business stinks"

"Yesterday's Meals on Wheels"

Yeah there was a character on the Red Green Show with "Rothschilds sewage septic sucking services." Apparently on early episodes it included a phone number and people actually called it.

 

[Zee09]

Why are y'all pumping the tank so often? Ours has not needed it in 17 years. Installed 2006. Field lines with filter prior.

I don't need to. Most likely every 5 years. They said mine looked new at 25 years old.
Go to sell a house here they want all the records and after 30 years they basically force a new tank on you..the typical scam these days.

They reduce the price of the sale but nobody forces the buyer to actually get a new system..neat..

 

[Pablo]

Previous clowns flushed all manner of plastic