Well now you know.
We had to get ours cleaned today, so I snapped a photo after the lid was opened and before the cleaning actually began.
If you’re curious, the tank is split up into two sections. The first section, which is closer to the bottom of the photo, is the filter section. All the garbage gets piled up in that section (like lint from clothing and other items that manage to get thrown into the washing machine and make it down the drain).
Although you can’t really tell from the photo, because only the top part is showing, the divider is actually like a sifter that holds the garbage on the closer side and lets the water through to the other side.
Once the water makes it to the other side, it should be relatively free from debris, which at that point, it gets drained out through the regular sewage system.
I would estimate that the tank, when emptied, is approximately five feet (1.5 meters) in depth.
A consequence of septic tank cleaning is that the entire laundromat begins to smell like moldy sewage. To try and mitigate this, I opened up all the windows, propped the front door open, and opened the side doors to the hallway of the building.
Opening the doors to the outside didn’t really do much, apparently, because the smell still lingered; but, opening the door to the hallway did do fantastic work in the sense that the entire building started smelling like sewage.
Our neighbors were extraordinarily delighted about that, and by delighted, I mean irritated.
Have you ever wondered what a septic tank at a laundromat looks like?
Well now you know.
We had to get ours cleaned today, so I snapped a photo after the lid was opened and before the cleaning actually began.
If you’re curious, the tank is split up into two sections. The first section, which is closer to the bottom of the photo, is the filter section. All the garbage gets piled up in that section (like lint from clothing and other items that manage to get thrown into the washing machine and make it down the drain).
Although you can’t really tell from the photo, because only the top part is showing, the divider is actually like a sifter that holds the garbage on the closer side and lets the water through to the other side.
Once the water makes it to the other side, it should be relatively free from debris, which at that point, it gets drained out through the regular sewage system.
I would estimate that the tank, when emptied, is approximately five feet (1.5 meters) in depth.
A consequence of septic tank cleaning is that the entire laundromat begins to smell like moldy sewage. To try and mitigate this, I opened up all the windows, propped the front door open, and opened the side doors to the hallway of the building.
Opening the doors to the outside didn’t really do much, apparently, because the smell still lingered; but, opening the door to the hallway did do fantastic work in the sense that the entire building started smelling like sewage.
Our neighbors were extraordinarily delighted about that, and by delighted, I mean irritated.