The owner came out looking quite nasty. He looked at the system depth and, without giving consideration to the age of the system just said out of hand that the tank didn't meet the current standard because it was too deep and too close to the house by 2 feet. Never a word in the report that this might have been ok when the system was installed. Next, he said that the tank was too deep and because of that the tank couldn't be working right. Our neighbor's tank was 7 times deeper than ours and their inspection report was great! All that was needed was a tube between the surface and the top of the tank as needed. This guy never mentioned this. He also said that the fluid level was below what it should have been even though he knew that the tank had been partially pumped the day before. No, instead he said that the tank was bad because the level of fluids wasn't high enough.
He also claimed that the lines were ABOVE the tank in a place where the dirt was pulled from to fill in a pool. Had that been the case, two things would have happened: 1, since water runs downhill, no drain fluids could have gotten to the field in the first place. Drain fields have to be below the tank for just this reason and 2, when you remove dirt from over a septic field, the field is exposed which it wasn't. Removing dirt to put somewhere else does not cause more dirt to go over the field.
When I spoke to him about his report he said that he was just telling a he saw it. Well, gravity laws were working against the report. The tank has never been any problem and yet he recommended that a soil scientist and an environmental expert be called to determine repairs.
What repairs?? The tank has never failed, the problems he legitimately found were easy fixes and of no real consequence to the function of the tank and he was backward on how water flows (not uphill), and taking soil from an area does not make that area have more dirt in it.
Don't hire the company unless you want a groundless negative inspection that defies the laws of gravity. read more