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Rid-X for Septic Systems? Wayne Boatwright 10-02-2006
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Posted by Wayne Boatwright on October 2, 2006, 12:33 am
Nice to use, essential, or unnecessary?

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Wayne Boatwright
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Cats don't correct your stories.


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Posted by Nobody You'd Know on October 2, 2006, 6:03 am
On 2 Oct 2006 06:33:39 +0200, Wayne Boatwright
<wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Nice to use, essential, or unnecessary?

        I've used it or a competetive product for years. Had the tank
pumped for the first time at about 25 yrs of ownership; and the only
reason for problems was an accumulation of cigarette butts plugging
the outlet to the drain field.

        The septic guy said he was amazed at how little sludge there
was in the tank.

        I've since switched to another product from Bio-Safe One in
the NYC area.

                http://www.biosafeone.com/

        My drain field had become "blinded" with grease; and the
Bio-Safe cleared it when Rid-X couldn't.

        Bottom line for me is: "Essential".

Posted by Wayne Boatwright on October 8, 2006, 4:17 am


Oh pshaw, on Mon 02 Oct 2006 03:03:01a, Nobody You'd Know meant to say...

> On 2 Oct 2006 06:33:39 +0200, Wayne Boatwright
> <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Nice to use, essential, or unnecessary?
>
> I've used it or a competetive product for years. Had the tank
> pumped for the first time at about 25 yrs of ownership; and the only
> reason for problems was an accumulation of cigarette butts plugging
> the outlet to the drain field.
>
> The septic guy said he was amazed at how little sludge there
> was in the tank.
>
> I've since switched to another product from Bio-Safe One in
> the NYC area.
>
> http://www.biosafeone.com/
>
> My drain field had become "blinded" with grease; and the
> Bio-Safe cleared it when Rid-X couldn't.
>
> Bottom line for me is: "Essential".

Thanks. I'll also take a look at that product.

--
Wayne Boatwright
__________________________________________________

I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like
the present -- only much longer. --Dan Quisenberry


Posted by Ether Jones on October 11, 2006, 9:39 am



> > The septic guy said he was amazed at how little sludge there
> > was in the tank.

That's because the RIDX kept it in suspension and it all went out into
your drain field.


Posted by HarryS on October 2, 2006, 9:23 am
You can get any answer you'd like on this subject. Some will tell you
they've used it for xxx years without having to pump the tank.

I've had two septic tank installers tell me that it does reduce the amount
of sludge that accumulates in the tank but at the risk of plugging your
drainfield. They claimed that in normal operation, septic effluent is taken
from approximately the center of the vertical height of the tank and goes to
the drainfield. In a properly operating system, the center section of the
tank will deliver the clearest water, which is what you want to go to the
drainfield. The top layer of the tank will have the floating sewage and the
bottom layer will be the denser sewage, along with the mineral matter that
came from the fully digested solids in the sewage. When you have a tank
pumped, what is being removed is primarily the mineral matter that has
accumulated from the digested sewage. The septic installer's explanation as
to why the Rid-X is not good for a septic system is that it causes solids in
the sewage to break into fine particles and that many of these fine
particles are suspended in the center layer and wind up going to the
drainfield. When they get to the drainfield, they create what they call a
'biomat' on the surfaces that are supposed to absorb the liquids into the
soil. Eventually, this can plug the drainfield.

This explanation sort of makes sense to me. I can't imagine how a 1000
gallon septic tank can hold 20 or 30 years of mineral matter accumulation
when you consider that the mineral matter should only be allowed to
accumulate in the bottom portion of the tank (to the bottom of the riser
that delivers effluent to the drainfield). If you let the mineral matter
(plus any solids in the sewage that is denser than water) build up to the
bottom of the riser, you'd either get sewage solids going to the drainfield
up through the riser or the riser would plug, which could allow floating
grease and sewage enter the drainfield line over the top of the riser.
Either situation would lead to plugging of the drainfield.

Harry

"Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> Nice to use, essential, or unnecessary?
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright
> __________________________________________________
>
> Cats don't correct your stories.
>



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