Occasionally I talk to onsite installing professionals who say they’ve come out from the cab of their trusty earth mover and bought a vacuum truck to pump the septic tanks they’ve installed. I’d say I heard more of that after the bottom dropped out of the real estate market in late 2008.
At the time, with home starts dwindling to a trickle, a number of contractors figured there wouldn’t be much dirt to move so they migrated – at least temporarily – to a septic service model. They knew homeowners would be more apt to stay put in their older homes
