So Lucky
Many months ago, our neighbors were having their septic tank pumped, which they seem to do regularly. I didn’t understand why. We only had that done a couple of time in our 40 years in Fort Lauderdale. True, they have 4 kids, but so did we, some of whom who took very long showers. Perhaps it’s because up here we have sump pumps to get the outflow to our drain fields. How do non-gravity fed septic tanks work? I toddled nextdoor and asked the worker to come see me when he was done pumping their tank. His take on our situation was that it all looked good, except that the water level alarm for the pump tank was shot, its electric box completely rusted away. And so things stood. Occasionally I’d say we needed to get that looked into. Yep. But we didn’t. However, a few months ago, I decided this needed to be fixed. I didn’t want to come home from vacation or even the store, and find a house full of water or worse. My inclination was to install an alarm that would alert us on our phone. ...