| The SEPTIC SYSTEM of any home is certainly an important componant and an expensive one, as well; particulary if it fails!
If you are buying a home with a septic system or private waste disposal system, please consider having it inspected by a professional septic system contractor...NOT your Home Inspector.
A normal Home Inspection does not, and should not, include this type of exam. A typical septic system exam involves specialized, intrusive and technically exhaustive inspection. The contractor will need to dig holes to access underground piping, the distribution box, the septic tank as well as determining the soil absorption of the leach field.
Simply adding a small amount of colored dye to the system and probing around the leach field is not an ample examination of the system. If a Home Inspector offers septic system inspection, ask just what type of exam he intends to perfom. Will he be digging several holes to assure that ALL the componants of the system are intact and working properly and will he be pumping the tank while he is there. By having a septic pumping contracting there during the Home Inspection, you may also wish to have the tank pumped so you start off with an empty tank.
In the long run, you'll probably save money and should be assured that the system will not fail shortly after you've moved in ...a costly repair to say the least!
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