I need to share with you something nearly all septic companies won’t: there are two types of people in this world. Those who think septic systems are just “buried containers for waste,” and those who’ve had raw sewage erupting into their property at midnight. I discovered this difference the difficult way in 2005—standing in mud, trembling in a Washington rainstorm, as my family and I aided a veteran installer repair our family’s failed system. I was 14. My hands blistered. My jeans were destroyed. But that evening, something clicked: This ain’t just dirt work. It’s folks’ lives we’re safeguarding.
Let me share the harsh truth: nearly all septic companies just maintain tanks. They act like band-aid salesmen at a demolition convention. But Septic Solutions? These guys are special. It all originated back in the early 2000s when Art and his family—just kids scarcely tall enough to lift a shovel—assisted install their family’s septic system alongside a grizzled pro. Imagine this: three kids buried in Pennsylvania clay, discovering how soil permeability affects drainage while their buddies played Xbox. “We didn’t just dig ditches,” Art shared with me last winter, steaming coffee cup in hand. “We discovered how ground whispers truths. A patch of wetland vegetation here? That’s Mother Nature screaming ‘high water table.'”
