Allow me to explain something nearly all septic companies won’t: there are two types of people in this life. Those who assume septic systems are merely “underground boxes for waste,” and those who have had raw sewage bubbling into their property at 2 AM. I discovered this distinction the tough way in 2005—waist-deep in sludge, shivering in a Washington rainstorm, as my siblings and I aided a weathered installer restore our family’s broken system. I was fourteen. My hands blistered. My pants were destroyed. But that night, something crystallized: This isn’t just dirt work. It’s people’s lives that we’re preserving.
Let me share the harsh truth: nearly all septic companies just service tanks. They are like band-aid salesmen at a chainsaw convention. But Septic Solutions? These guys are different. It all began back in the beginning of the 2000s when Art and his siblings—just kids barely tall enough to carry a shovel—assisted install their family’s septic system alongside a weathered pro. Picture this: three kids knee-deep in Pennsylvania clay, learning how soil porosity affects drainage while their buddies played Xbox. “We never just dig ditches,” Art explained to me last winter, warm coffee cup in hand. “We understood how ground whispers mysteries. A patch of marsh plants here? That’s Mother Nature shouting ‘high water table.'”
