Septic Tank Cleaning in Columbia, SC

Since 1974, F.J Rabon Construction Company has been serving Kershaw County & Richland County with professional experienced personnel in septic tank sales, service, and installation.  Providing service to Lugoff, Elgin, Camden, Kershaw, Columbia, and the Midlands of South Carolina for all septic tank needs from new installations, line repairs, pumping and septic tank cleaning.  F.J. Rabon Construction Company is a family owned and operated business with over 34 years experience, providing 24 hour emergency service when needed.  We offer free estimates and are fully licensed & bonded.  We also provide grease trap cleaning services to our commercial businesses throughout the area.  With our Honey Bucket Services, we provide portable toilet rentals for construction sites and special events.  If you need handicapped toilets, we have those, too.  We can provide you with holding tanks and hand washing stations for any business or event and offer clean, dependable service.  F.J. Rabon Construction Co. can clear your land and perform grading services, hauling, and pond building and will provide you with a free estimate.

We provide quality septic tank installation at affordable prices.

Septic tank (concrete) manufacturers.  Residential and commercial, 24 hour emergency service.  Septic tank pumping and grease traps cleaned.  Septic tank, sales, service and installation, line repairing and backhoe work.  In business since 1973.  Licensed and insured.  Free estimates.

Honey Bucket Services

Portable toilet rentals for construction sites and special events.  Handicap toilets available, holding tanks, hand washing stations.  Clean dependable service.

The most common domestic wastewater treatment system used in rural areas is the septic tank-soil absorption system.  The septic tank removes settleable and floatable solids from the waste water.  The soil absorption field then filters and treats the clarified septic tank effluent and distributes it through the soil. Removing the solids from the wastewater protects the soil absorption system from clogging and failure.  In addition to removing solids, the septic tank also promotes biological digestion of a portion of the solids and stores the remaining undigested portion.

The first stage of the treatment system, the septic tank, removes solids by holding wastewater in the tank.  This allows the heavier solids to settle as sludge and the lighter particles to form scum at the top.  To accomplish this, wastewater should be held in the tank for at least 24 hours.  Up to 50 percent of the solids retained in the tank decompose; the remainder accumulates in the tank.  Biological and chemical additives are not needed to aid or accelerate decomposition.  The small, collapsing, and totally impacted septic tank shown here was ignored by the property owner for years, leading to total failure of the system.

As septic tank systems are used, sludge continues to accumulate in the bottom of the septic tank.  Properly designed tanks have enough space for up to three years safe accumulation of sludge.  When the sludge level increases beyond this point, sewage has less time to settle before leaving the tank and more solids escape into the absorption area.  If too much sludge accumulates, no settling occurs before the sewage flows to the soil absorption field.  Infiltration of sludge into the soil absorption field can cause system failure.  To prevent this, the tank must be pumped periodically.

Call today when looking for septic tank contractors, septic tank installation, or septic tank repair.

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