Install
Septic System Installation in Florence, MS
New builds and replacements, from the excavation through to the risers set flush at grade and the fill dirt put back. If an old tank has failed, we'll talk you through what a treatment plant changes before anything comes out of the ground.
What goes into the ground, in order
Every install starts with the excavator, not the tank. The ground gets opened to the depth and grade the tank or treatment unit actually needs, with a level bed underneath it so the unit sits flat rather than settling crooked later. The tank or treatment plant goes in next, plumbed to the house on one side and to the distribution line or drain field on the other. On a treatment plant install there's more to place: the aeration chamber, the pump or gravity outlet, and the wiring or venting that unit needs to run. Once everything's connected and tested, the risers go on. Those are the lids you'll actually see once the job's done, set to finish flush at grade rather than proud of the lawn or buried where nobody can find them again.
What's left when the crew pulls out
The visible part of a good install is almost nothing: a few green lids sitting flush in the grass, and ground that looks close to how it did before the excavator arrived. That's fill dirt doing its job. Freshly backfilled ground settles as it compacts over the following weeks, so it's normal to see a shallow low spot form over the trench line and need a bit more dirt to level out. We tell you what to expect on your specific yard before we leave, not after you've called wondering why the ground moved.
Seal Digging, Authorized Consolidated Treatment Systems dealer. Call (601) 845-0484.
On the job
Four stages, same crew, start to finish.
01
Excavate to grade
Our own tracked excavator opens the ground to the depth and fall the system needs, with a level bed for the tank or unit to sit on.
02
Set and plumb
Tank or treatment unit goes in, plumbed to the house and to the distribution line or field, then tested before anything gets covered.
03
Risers to grade
Access lids get set flush with the finished lawn, not proud of it and not buried, so the next pump-out doesn't start with a shovel.
04
Backfill and restore
Fill dirt goes back in and the yard gets put back together as close to how it looked as the job allows.
What one install actually looked like
“Last fall we had a large tree limb fell during a thunderstorm destroying the lid on our 40 year old metal septic tank... One of their employees suggested that I check with my homeowner's policy because we do not have access to public sewer service. I did and the insurance company paid for the install and landscaping (fill dirt). Everyone that we have dealt with demonstrated their knowledge and abilities to make what could have been a disaster palatable.”
June Wilsonvia Google
We're also an authorized dealer and service provider for Consolidated Treatment Systems, fitting and maintaining the Multi-Flo, Nayadic and Sybr-AER lines. It matters most on an install: the crew putting a unit in the ground is the same one that comes back to service it years later.
Already have a system in
An install is the start. Keeping it working is the rest of it.
Once a tank or treatment plant is in the ground, it needs pumping on a schedule and the odd repair along the way. Our septic tank pumping page covers how that side of the work runs. For grease traps, lift stations and treatment plant service, see the full services list. Charlie, our longest-serving crew member, has been setting these systems into Rankin County ground since 1998.