Red neck Septic

[momatt]

I put a little pre-made building on my farm. Its 14 by 40 and I've been slowly finishing it inside. It had an old well I got refurbished and I ran electric in. I'm in the middle of no where and decided to do a little redneck engineering and put in a toilet. Got an IBC tote to use as the septic tank, been tripping buckets of gravel up from the creek for the trench backfill. Only putting one toilet to it. Sinks and shower will run to a separate graywater French drain. Next is a tankless water heater and a pot belly stove and its done. I have a sawmill so my plan is to cover the insulation with rough sawn one inch boards with any log I can get on the mill, lot of it will be eastern red cedar. Has two lofts, one little bedroom under one, a bath and a kitchen under the other.

 

[Aaron]

You will have to make your own baffles for the tank. I don’t know if you know how a septic tank works, if you have questions on baffles and inlet/ outlet heights pm me.

 

[Jim K.]

Your title "Red neck Septic" caught my attention so I had to check it out. Nice cabin. Some inside pics when finished would be cool. The reason you title caught my attention is one time we were building a new house on a site that had a house on before and ran into what they had used for a septic tank. They had buried an old car and ran the sewer pipe into it and just let seep out. LOL. You have a much improved version of a Red neck septic!

 

[Bill]

Hey may farm has an “over the hill” system.
The pipe runs out over the hill. Was like that when I bought the place and still Is.

The only bad part is when it’s dry frogs get in the pipe and manage to reach the toilet and die there. True!

 

[Tree Spud]

Any septic is only as good as the drain field. If is don't drain based on flow use, you will have solids overflow which will impact whatever drain field you have.