I need to tell you something most septic companies will not: there are two kinds of people in this life. Those who think septic systems are simply “buried containers for waste,” and those that have had raw sewage erupting into their property at midnight. I understood this reality the hard way in 2005—waist-deep in mud, freezing in a Washington rainstorm, as my brothers and I aided a weathered installer repair our family’s broken system. I was fourteen. My hands blistered. My pants were wrecked. But that night, something changed: This ain’t just dirt work. It’s people’s lives we are protecting.
This is the harsh truth: most septic companies just pump tanks. They are like band-aid salesmen at a chainsaw convention. But Septic Solutions? These guys are unique. It all began back in the early 2000s when Art and his siblings—just kids hardly tall enough to carry a shovel—helped install their family’s septic system alongside a experienced pro. Imagine this: three pre-teens waist-deep in Pennsylvania clay, learning how soil absorption affects drainage while their peers played Xbox. “We never just dig ditches,” Art told me last winter, hot coffee cup in hand. “We understood how soil whispers secrets. A patch of cattails here? That’s Mother Nature yelling ‘high water table.'”