Let me share with you something most septic companies will not: there are two kinds of people in this life. Those who believe septic systems are merely “buried containers for waste,” and those that have had raw sewage gurgling into their property at 2 AM. I discovered this difference the difficult way in 2005—knee-deep in muck, shivering in a Washington deluge, as my brothers and I aided a veteran installer restore our family’s broken system. I was a teenager. My hands were raw. My clothes were wrecked. But that evening, something clicked: This is not just dirt work. It’s families’ lives that we’re preserving.
Let me share the harsh truth: the majority of septic companies just maintain tanks. They are like band-aid salesmen at a demolition convention. But Septic Solutions? They are different. It all started back in the beginning of the 2000s when Art and his brothers—just kids hardly tall enough to shoulder a shovel—helped install their family’s septic system alongside a experienced pro. Picture this: three pre-teens knee-deep in Pennsylvania clay, learning how soil porosity affects drainage while their friends played Xbox. “We didn’t just dig trenches,” Art told me last winter, warm coffee cup in hand. “We understood how soil whispers truths. A patch of marsh plants here? That’s Mother Nature yelling ‘high water table.'”