Entries Tagged Onsite System Installation

I’m going to make a guess about how an important aspect of your onsite system installs has improved dramatically over the past...

A couple in Lakemont, Ga., wanted to build a two-bedroom summer home on a lake lot considered unbuildable. The consulting engineer recommended...

Can I install my own system?This is a question professional installers sometimes hear from homeowners who are faced with a costly system...

The sheer size and complex demolition and build schedule for a system replacement project near Golden Pond, Ky., provided a huge challenge...

Since the 1970s in Minnesota we have been using mound treatment systems to overcome soil limitations and provide separation for treatment of...

With this issue, we complete the series on the “politics of inspections” by focusing on ways that the installer can earn or...

Returning momentarily to part three of this series where we discussed mutual respect as a requirement between the installer and the inspector...

When we talk about the pipes used in onsite systems, we like to break the discussion into three parts because the function...

In this series we’ve examined the relationship between septic system inspectors and installers, noting that the two professions approach a job from...

We don’t often talk about equipment except in the context of performing a specific task. This is because we are not equipment...

As-built drawings are a topic that comes up during any installer training we conduct. Clearly, if there is an engineer or designer...

Were they really the good old days? If you talk to Alfonzo “Al’’ Pavlicek about his long career installing septic systems, you might...

Part two of this series explained the relationships that develop between installers and inspectors and ended with three crucial items, the first being...

Three years ago, during an installer class conducted in cooperation with the California Onsite Wastewater Association, we discussed installation procedures for sewage...