septic question

[winterh]

Not looking to tear down but may want to improve. Just want to make sure i can kep the rooms and guest house I have if septic fails or not

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by winterh

Not looking to tear down but may want to improve. Just want to make sure i can kep the rooms and guest house I have if septic fails or not

Yes you can keep the rooms! I can't answer your other questions but I do know if you ever wanted to sell the home you could only advertise it based on what your septic capacity is.

I wouldn't worry too much about overloading the system unless you have the guest house and extra bedrooms booked every day. Care should be taken when you do have a full house for a few days, don't do five loads of laundry and 10 showers every day!

We have three bedrooms and a bunkhouse but our septic is rated for two. It's only me and my wife most of the time so what difference does it make having the other bedrooms?? Yes when we have multiple guests we are careful, but simply using those other rooms occasionally certainly is not a problem whatsoever.

Good Luck!

Dan

[songkrai]

Not sure what the rules are today. Best to quietly check up on such.

I did view a "new" home construction on the lake.
But this "new" home was a remodel.
The builder/owner left one 8' (foot) stud section on foundation/concrete. All sheet rock, insulation, siding, etc removed. The whole rest of the house was removed.
Then they built a complete house around this one 8' section of wall.
This is the 3rd house built on this site in my lifetime.
Second septic probably around the 1970's.

Best to read up on the rules.

[DickR]

Another thing to consider is your future planned or possible use of the property. Even if what's there is grandfathered, that won't help if the system fails down the road and you can't replace it with an adequate and legal system. You might want to pay for your own septic assessment/opinion from a system designer, with ultimate replacement in mind.

[Lakegeezer]

The state is willing to work with you if your plan makes sense and is the best for the situation. When we replaced our system, several years before a remodel, seven wavers were required to get something useful and yet environmentally safe. We had to move a culvert away from the field and use double wall pipe from the tank to the field because it went under a seasonal stream. The local septic designers can help you figure out what is best.

In the end, you want to make sure the tank doesn't leak and the field leaches slowly, even in heavy rain. The downside to not doing it right is more aquatic plants and eventually more muck along your shoreline.