We’ve stood in a lot of North Fulton backyards with homeowners who just got bad news about their drain field. Almost every one of them asks the same thing: “Could I have stopped this?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A lot of the time, the honest answer is yes. And the thing that would have stopped it is the least exciting service we offer: a routine pumping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A pumping visit is quick. We find the lid, pump out the sludge and scum, look at the baffles and the effluent filter, and tell you how the tank looks. Your yard looks the same when we leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A drain field replacement is a different animal. That’s excavating, a backhoe in the yard, new lines, sometimes a soil evaluation and county permitting before any of it starts. Your lawn takes a season to come back. It’s one of the biggest repair bills a homeowner on septic can face, many times what a pumping runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The EPA says the same thing in plainer government language: a failing system is expensive to repair or replace, and poor maintenance is often the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your tank’s job is to hold solids back so only liquid flows out to the field. Every year, the sludge layer on the bottom gets thicker. When nobody pumps it, there’s less and less room for solids to settle, and they start riding out with the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those solids clog the gravel and the soil around your drain lines. Once the soil seals up, the water has nowhere to go. That’s when you see the soggy patch, smell the odor or get a backup in the lowest drain in the house. In our tight Georgia clay, it doesn’t take much to seal things off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pumping can’t bring a clogged field back to life. It can only keep the field from getting clogged in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The EPA’s general guidance is to have a household system inspected at least every three years and pumped every three to five years. Your number depends on tank size, how many people live there and how hard you use it. Here’s what we tell families from Alpharetta to Johns Creek:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not sure where you stand? Our guide to how often to pump in Alpharetta<\/a> walks through it, and what happens during a pumping appointment<\/a> shows you what to expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re already seeing wet spots or smelling sewage, don’t panic and don’t assume the worst. Some fields can be repaired instead of replaced, depending on what we find. The sooner we look, the more options you usually have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pricing depends on your tank, your access and your site, so we quote each job after we know what we’re working with. Matt Banta has been doing this in Roswell, Milton, Sandy Springs and the rest of North Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he’ll tell you straight whether you need a pumping or something bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Call Action Septic Tank Service at 770-922-1434<\/a> or visit actionseptictankservice.com<\/a> to schedule service.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A routine septic pumping costs far less than a new drain field. Learn how regular service protects your North Fulton yard. Call 770-922-1434.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[421,446,267,433,436,443,429,627,623,434,423,469,441,471,440,431,322,473,628,621,472,424,476,465,426,626,624,467,622,430,420,428,381,438,444,439,240,432,239,427,464,422,435,470,244,442,475,625,425,437,466],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-septic-digest","tag-770-922-1434","tag-action-septic-digest","tag-action-septic-tank-service","tag-alpharetta-georgia-septic-experts","tag-clogged-septic-tank-alpharetta","tag-drain-field-problems-alpharetta","tag-drain-field-repair-alpharetta","tag-drain-field-replacement-alpharetta","tag-drain-field-replacement-cost","tag-emergency-septic-near-me","tag-emergency-septic-service-alpharetta","tag-family-septic-system-care","tag-fast-septic-service-alpharetta","tag-heavy-rain-septic-issues","tag-licensed-septic-technician-alpharetta","tag-local-septic-company-alpharetta","tag-north-fulton-septic-service","tag-north-georgia-clay-septic","tag-preventive-septic-maintenance","tag-pumping-vs-drain-field-replacement","tag-restaurant-grease-trap-service","tag-septic-backup-alpharetta","tag-septic-bacteria-care","tag-septic-drain-field-repair","tag-septic-inspection-alpharetta","tag-septic-inspection-schedule","tag-septic-maintenance-saves-money","tag-septic-odor-removal","tag-septic-pumping-cost-alpharetta","tag-septic-pumping-near-me","tag-septic-repair-alpharetta","tag-septic-repair-near-me","tag-septic-service-alpharetta","tag-septic-service-johns-creek","tag-septic-service-roswell-ga","tag-septic-smell-in-house-alpharetta","tag-septic-system-maintenance","tag-septic-system-maintenance-alpharetta","tag-septic-tank-cleaning-alpharetta","tag-septic-tank-failure-alpharetta","tag-septic-tank-full","tag-septic-tank-odor-alpharetta","tag-septic-tank-overflowing-alpharetta","tag-septic-tank-problems","tag-septic-tank-pumping-alpharetta","tag-septic-tank-pumping-milton-ga","tag-septic-tank-sludge","tag-septic-tank-solids-drain-field","tag-septic-tank-troubleshooting-alpharetta","tag-sewage-backup-alpharetta","tag-slow-drains-septic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionseptictankservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Already Seeing Trouble?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n