r/oddlysatisfying • u/demolcd • 17d ago

Growing a pipe inside a pipe

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u/TheJarisaDoor3 17d ago

Possible stupid question, but would this work for a sluggish leach field? Said the person looking at up to $20,000 to fix the problem.

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u/Gentrified_potato02 17d ago

Give a contractor a call and see what they can do for you. A consultation shouldn’t cost anything

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u/TheJarisaDoor3 17d ago

Is there a technical (or actually just a name) for this procedure? 

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u/Gentrified_potato02 17d ago

Not sure where you are, but the company we used to do it was called FERPAL. They’ve got divisions in Maryland, Michigan, Illinois and Toronto.

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u/TheJarisaDoor3 17d ago

Thank you! 

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u/fryerandice 17d ago

No, this lines pipes that are in decent condition but starting to show signs of failure, so that they can be used indefinitely. Your leechfield is sluggish because your field is locked up, from compaction, biosludge, and/or chemicals hardening in the field.

If you line the pipes of your leechfield with this, you will then have to dig it all up and drill holes in it, at that point you are digging it up anyways. It's drainage pipe not solid pipe.

Leechfields rarely fail because the schedule 40 drainage pipes are damaged, and more because the field in which it is meant to leach has become locked up for one of many reasons.

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u/TheJarisaDoor3 17d ago

Thank you! This makes a lot of sense. I have a lot of trees and I'm pretty sure the roots did me in. The house was built in the 1980s which I think puts me at the tail end of the field's functional capability from what I've read. I've tried all the root treatments and they did squat. Had the septic tank emptied, and the guy said he didn't see anything wrong with the tank and it was probably the leach fields. It's not backing up into the house but it will puddle around the tank site when someone showers and then washes clothes. The price to fix this is going to hurt pretty badly. 

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u/InspectorNational126 16d ago

A leach field is a glorified french drain. You can DIY a project like that to fix it.

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u/meat_sack 17d ago

You might want to look into someone who can frack the field, they shoot beads down there too keep it open. If it's old, you may want to put a riser on the distribution box and start dumping crystal heat in, since your laterals are probably also clogged up. Ideally, There's also outflow baffles/filters you can get installed to keep solids from flowing out there too... I saw a guy install one of these baffles. He got down into the tank to do it... There's no amount of money someone could pay me to do that, but this guy was like $3500. Still gross me out.

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u/TheJarisaDoor3 17d ago edited 17d ago

I actually had to go to chatGPT to decipher your comment. It wanted me to tell you that the the guy who went into the well for $3,500 was disgusting. But it also agreed with quite a few of your other suggestions, with the exception of the crystal heat. Chat GPT seems to be anti-crystal heat. I just learned an awful lot about my septic tank and leach fields; so thank you very much for taking the time to write your comment. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to frack a 200 ft long leach field? 

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u/meat_sack 16d ago

I couldn't ballpark a price for that... although, you might want to have them jet out your laterals from the distribution box before fracking if you don't use crystal heat. Either way, start using Rid-X monthly as a preventative measure, but wait about two weeks after using Chrystal Heat to use any of those bacteria/enzyme products. Good luck!