The house is a 3000 sq foot house with 2 bathrooms and only 2 people living in it. 90 year old granfather and a caregiver that is
there 24 hours a day. Complaints about water backing up and gurgling noises kept coming and septic water was on the ground above the septic tank. The septic was pumped out a year ago and the company said that the drainfield needed to be replaced.
I did some research on the internet and found an advertisement for Aero-Stream. I did some searches and found nothing but good things about the company. I told my family what I was going to do to fix the septic issue. Everybody thought I was crazy, my mom, my friends, my inlaws all thought this.
They would humor me and tell me "if this works then you need to do this at my house". I bought the Remediator LT since only 2 people lived in the house I figured that they can't be using that much water. I received the unit and called the septic company to come pump out the tank. They came at 4pm on Thursday 7/5/12 and the plan was to install the Remediator early on Saturday 7/7/12. I dug up the cleanout and found that the septic tank was completely full. The instructions tell you to do this on an empty tank and in two days the
tank wasn't supposed to be full. I installed the unit anyway and knew the the process would just take a little bit longer to remediate the system since it was full.
The installation took no more than 30 minutes. It took me longer to dig the dirt away and lift the cleanout cover. I took a picture every week and corresponded via email with Aero-Stream and they gave me great advice. The odor was still present the entire time and the water would be above the clean out and then below. The water would just not go down and stay down. One advice I got
from Aero-Steam was to install low flow shower heads, the next was to check the toilets and install a leak sentry unit in each toilet. I checked the toilets and both were leaking but I never installed the low flow heads or replaced the guts of the toilet.
THEN, me, my wife, and 2 kids moved in to this house (the plan all along) and the grandfather and caregiver moved to my in laws. We moved in on 10/6/2012, I installed the low flow heads 1.25gpm, and fixed the leaks in the
toilets. ALL of a sudden the water went below the cleanout cover and stayed down. Every Sunday is laundry day so I ran the diswasher, 3 loads of laundry, kids took a bath (5 yr and 3 yr) and wife and I took a shower each. I went outside and the water never came up over the lid. I knew at that time the septic system was fixed. I covered up the cleanout with dirt and it's been 2 weeks and no issues at all.
This system saved me at least $10k and some dead trees. The area around the septic has tree roots all over and I was told this would probably kill some trees if they put in a new drainfiled due to them having to cut out all the roots. The joke is on everybody now. They all come to me now for advice on items they are about to buy since they know I'll research it. Thanks Aero-Stream, your product and customer services is top notch.
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