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Septic tank repair fixes the part that failed and keeps the rest of your system in service. We do septic tank repair out of Piedmont, AL, and across Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia. Most calls start with a slow drain in the house or a smell near the tank. Others start with wet ground over the lid or waste coming back up inside.
Jim Westbrook owns the company and has installed septic systems his whole working life. He holds an Alabama Level II (advanced) onsite wastewater installer license, the level that covers engineered and large commercial systems. We run three crews and own our excavation equipment, so we dig up tanks and lines ourselves. The same crews do septic tank pumping, which lets us empty a tank and repair it on one visit.
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A septic tank usually gives warning before it quits on you. Drains inside the house get slow, and the toilets gurgle for a second after a flush. You may catch a sewage smell in the yard, near the tank lid or out over the field. Soggy ground or a bright green stripe of grass over the tank means waste is escaping.
A cracked or sunken lid is another common reason people call for septic tank repair. Old concrete lids break under mower traffic and truck tires, and the tops of steel tanks rust through. A broken lid is a safety problem first, because a child or a farm animal can fall straight in. Keep everyone off that spot and call us at (256) 453-9003.
Some problems stay hidden until the tank is pumped and open. With the tank pumped down, we can check the walls, the inlet baffle, the outlet tee, and the pipe joints. A tank that backs up while the level is low is telling you something different. That usually points at the field lines instead of the tank itself.
Septic system repair is usually the smaller job, and most septic tanks are worth saving. A concrete tank in sound shape can take a new lid, a riser, new baffles, or an outlet tee. After that it goes back to work, and the yard is left mostly as it was. We look at the tank first and raise replacement only when the tank cannot be saved.
Replacement makes sense when the tank itself has failed. Steel tanks rust from the top down, and the area around the lid gives out before anything else. A tank with collapsed walls or a rotted top cannot be patched and left in the ground. In that case we price a new septic system installation and go over what the county health department will allow.
The size of the household matters too. A tank sized for a small house can fall short after an addition or a second bathroom. Some lots also need engineered septic systems because the soil will not take a standard gravity field. We lay out the repair option and the replacement option, and you decide which one to go with.
The first job is finding the tank and getting the lid uncovered. On older places the lid sits buried with nothing above ground marking the spot. Our crew probes the ground, then opens the top of the tank with our own excavation equipment. Once the lid is off we can see the water level and the condition of the baffles.
What happens next depends on the part that failed. A broken lid gets replaced, and we can set a riser so the next opening takes minutes. A missing or rotted outlet baffle gets a new tee, which keeps solids from washing out into the field lines. A crushed line between the house and the tank gets dug up and replaced.
Some repairs need a permit and some do not. In Alabama the county health department runs the onsite sewage program under ADPH, so check with them on your job. Our service area covers Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia, and we run septic tank repair south through Talladega. Call (256) 453-9003 and tell us what the system is doing.
An estimate on septic tank repair is free. Tell us what you are seeing, how old the house is, and whether the tank has been pumped lately. If you have the septic permit or a sketch of the lot, that saves digging time. We look at the tank in person before we put a quote together.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia.
(256) 453-9003From the first phone call to the final grade, here is exactly how it goes.
Tell us what the system is doing, or what the new build needs. We answer questions on the phone and set a time to come out.
We look at the tank, the field, the soil, and the access. Then you get one price for the whole job before any work starts.
We file the septic permit with the county health office where the job needs one, then dig, set, and plumb the work to what the permit calls for.
The inspector signs off before anything is covered. We backfill, grade the ground smooth, and leave the yard ready to seed.
Common questions about tank repair across Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
Drain field repair puts the buried field lines back to work when your yard stays wet. We repair and replace field lines across Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia.
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We pump and clean septic tanks on a routine schedule, through the main lid so the whole tank empties. Estimates are free, and we cover Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia.
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Some lots cannot take a standard gravity system. We install engineered and alternative septic systems built to an engineer's design, including pump and dosing systems.
View DetailsJim Westbrook has put in septic systems his whole working life. He has dug through the clay, chert, and shallow rock that sit under Northeast Alabama, and that reading of the ground shapes every system we build.
Jim holds an Alabama Level II installer license, the advanced level. That covers conventional gravity systems, engineered systems for lots that fail a perc test, and large commercial jobs like schools.
Septic permits run through the county health department in Alabama and the county environmental health office in Georgia. We file the right paperwork in the right office and never cover a system before the inspector signs off.
Three crews and our own excavation equipment mean your job gets scheduled and finished. Tank, field lines, pumps, and the drainage that protects them all come from the same company.
A new build that needs a septic system, a tank that is overdue for a pump out, or a drain field that will not dry up? Call or send the form and we will look at the job with you and price the whole thing. The estimate is free.
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