Gale Hawkins wrote: The Dollar General brand works good of us so far. It is the same as Rid-X the best I can tell.
Like Will posted it is good to use when there is little solid matter and mostly water which is the case of RV usage.
Little solid matter in the RV tank? Hmmmm, I dunno, when we camp, we put plenty of 'solid matter' in our black tank. 'Bout same amount as we would put in the septic tank if we were at home.
Do you change your eating habits when camping, enough that the 'solid matter' input into the black tank is less than at home?
Well, I guess if you saved the '#2' jobs for the campground facilities and didnt do such in your RV, yeah, that would be the case...
(hehehehe, this conversation gets better and better...)
Will
I should have explained better. We have onboard water tank and do flush after a '#2' job.
Big Katuna wrote: A septic tank will last without pumping for decades right up to the point where the drain field fills up with non-dissolvables. Fats, fibers from laundry, fibers from vegetables.
..I agree 100% with you, but must add one thing:
..A septic system can also quit working not just when the drain field clogs up, but also when the tank itself gets so clogged with various solids, that water can no longer get out to the drain field.
This is actually the way many systems are designed to work, and is what you'd want it to do. If the tank clogs up and doesnt allow water out to the drain field, waste water will back up into the house, and you are forced to do something immediately (pump out the tank). Good thing is that in that case it saves your drain field, and the only expense is to have the tank itself pumped out, after which the system will work fine (assuming the tank 'caught' most solids and didnt let them into the drain field). A couple hundred $$ to pump out a tank is much, MUCH cheaper and easier than spending thousands to replace a drain field.
Quote: Adding Rid-X is a waste of money but go ahead if it makes you feel better.
Exactly right, as I said in the last post.
Will
Then there are people like the contractor who built my childhood home. Placed the septic tank on the lowest spot on the property, drainfield ran uphill. We ended up putting in a dry well
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Ric Flair wrote: We do like to talk about poo a lot around here
Poop talk's ok with me, just as long as the thread doesn't turn to talk about the campers that don't flush their toilet paper and put it in a basket along side the toilet in the their MH's!
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us".
Bumpyroad wrote: strange, my septic tank has worked just fine for 35 years and I have never added Rid X to it.
bumpy
My uncles reply when I said his septic tank may needed pumped after 40 years was "they never need cleaned" the next year when I visited he had it pumped a week before I arrived.
he was 96 so I never said "I told you so" altho I felt like it.
Bumpy I too never added anything to mine but every 20 years I had the solids removed, I don't think mine was installed correctly the solids would enter the tank's first chamber with such force that it would hit the other side and after years and years of this it would bridge and plug the inlet I'm talking a 18, 20 inch gap.
The only thing rid x will hurt is your pocketbook. Add bugs to help the bacteria? really? we're talking about s*** here you can't get more bacteria then that.
Bumpyroad wrote: strange, my septic tank has worked just fine for 35 years and I have never added Rid X to it.
bumpy
My uncles reply when I said his septic tank may needed pumped after 40 years was "they never need cleaned" the next year when I visited he had it pumped a week before I arrived.
he was 96 so I never said "I told you so" altho I felt like it.
Bumpy I too never added anything to mine but every 20 years I had the solids removed, I don't think mine was installed correctly the solids would enter the tank's first chamber with such force that it would hit the other side and after years and years of this it would bridge and plug the inlet I'm talking a 18, 20 inch gap.
yes over 35 years I believe mine has been pumped twice.
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