And if you somehow disagree with flushing it down if it is brown, I suppose I would like to hear about that as well.

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    Septic tanks should be emptied every two years, the tank might look great, it’s your drain field that will be ruined way more quickly. People not draining their tank often enough is the reason why municipalities have started just adding it to their taxes and taking care of it themselves instead of letting people contaminate their lot.

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      yeah that was probably true 30-40 years ago when small tanks without baffles and straight outlet pipes were common. if you have an old property that hasn’t had the tank replaced, do that. but these days bigger tanks have baffle separators between settling compartments, an output baffle, and a strainer on the output. you almost never get any solids going out to the leech field unless the strainer collapses and the input will clog long before that is likely to happen.

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        8 months ago

        If you have to throw your toilet paper in the trash instead of flushing it in order to not have issues then yeah, you’re not emptying it often enough.

        But hey, you do you and you deal with the issues, I mean, what’s a new septic system when you can save the equivalent of 100$ a year, right?

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          We don’t put tp in the trash at our family home and have no problems.
          The rental unit has to because of the smaller tank (it has a ~900gal one or something) and it normally gets emptied on a 3 year cycle- as it had been for about 10 years without issue before this tenant moved in and problems arose because of their copious TP usage.

          Thanks for the advice though 👍