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"We Need Each Other"
Howardgaf
I need to share with you something the majority of septic companies will not: there are two kinds of people in this reality. Those who think septic systems are just "underground boxes for waste," and those who have had raw sewage erupting into their backyard at the dead of night. I discovered this reality the difficult way in 2005—standing in mud, freezing in a Washington deluge, as my siblings and I aided a weathered installer restore our family's collapsed system. I was 14. My hands were raw. My clothes were destroyed. But that moment, something crystallized: This isn't just manual labor. It's folks' lives that we're protecting.
This is the harsh truth: the majority of septic companies just maintain tanks. They're like temporary salesmen at a demolition convention. But Septic Solutions? These guys are special. It all originated back in the beginning of the 2000s when Art and his siblings—just kids barely tall enough to lift a shovel—aided install their family's septic system alongside a grizzled pro. Picture this: three pre-teens waist-deep in Pennsylvania clay, discovering how soil absorption affects drainage while their friends played Xbox. "We didn't just dig ditches," Art explained to me last winter, steaming coffee cup in hand. "We discovered how ground whispers secrets. A patch of wetland vegetation here? That's Mother Nature screaming 'high water table.'"