Here’s another story for the “I cannot make this stuff up file.” Let’s talk fees for a second. Our “Service Call Fee” is $125.00. That fee get’s our truck on site and starts working for emergencies. But then we go by the hour plus parts until we are done. There are other guys out there that’ll do a $75.00 service call. We lose some work to this problem over the phone. One needs to understand the difference….
Yesterday, Christopher Gross and I spent 6 hours on one job. Yikes. Now the good news. My competitor wrote it up as a complete system failure. BTW, my competitor installs septic systems. Slight conflict of interest. I was called for a second opinion. Now the system was busted up, hence 6 hour repair. 1 hour was me spent inside the septic tank patching it. Good times, btw, but at least I was out of the rain. ha ha. So back to the good…
Here is an update from the “competitor wrote up system failure.” You can see in the picture that the water levels are at the appropriate levels in the septic tank. The discharge line to the drainfield is on the left. The water level is on the lower side of the outlet pipe. This is the static level of this septic tank. This is where it should always be. It has not been functioning for over a week since the drainfield…
A septic owner called us to see if there was anything we could do to fix this riser installation our competitor performed. This owner was tired of having the riser stick up out of the deck, and was tripping over it. The other two risers were all tilted and not vertical. I just had to take pictures. See these risers are able to be cut at any length. We cut them to grade and replaced the wooden deck with…