Types Of Septic Tank Equipment For Your Home

Are you planning to have a septic tank system installed? If so, you need to familiarize yourself with the basic septic tank equipment, like screens, filters, screw conveyors, traps, drains, and vents. Here is a brief look at some of the basics of this type of equipment.

The traps and drains comprise the pipes that lead from the building or the house, and are connected to the septic tank. A venting system may also be placed on top of the septic tank as a mean for the gases to escape. The importance of the drains is to ensure that neutral air pressure is maintained inside the drains to facilitate the flow of the sewage by gravity. In rare cases, sewage cannot flow out through the use of gravity due to the location of the building or the tank, therefore special collection pits can be created along with a pump used to 'eject' the sewage into the drainage field.

The integrity of your traps, drains and vents cannot be maintained without good fittings, which are used to connect tubing's and pipes to each other to make a network of pipes, to adapt to different shapes and directions, and to control the flow of the sewage through the pipe. Fittings add considerable cost to a septic tank installation and may also take a lot of time and tools to install.

Screens and filters are especially useful in decreasing the amount of solids you are dumping in your septic tank everyday. Lint from your clothes, which can quickly clog up the system when they become large enough, can be easily filtered by a screen and removed periodically. This is just some of the basics of septic tank equipment that will help you in gaining a better understanding of the terminology.