DIY Septic Tank Access Riser, Making Concrete Forms and Bending Rebar
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2022
- I had to have my septic tank pumped out and had to dig up the soil to expose the access holes. I decided to make a riser and cover to go around/over the entrance opening before covering it back up so I wouldn't have to dig it up the next time it needs to be pumped. I made the concrete forms and bent/assembled the rebar and poured the concrete.
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Incredible! Outrageously complicated, but bloody brilliant construction.
Thank you!
I've watched a bunch of videos on this and yours was by far the best. Thanks for making a quality product showcasing how to make a quality product.
Thank you!
Great job on the project and the presentation, - thanks for sharing. You're a good thinker!
Thank you!
Very well executed presentation and packed with great ideas.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Lots a skill sets and great tools to go with um! Nothing you can’t do great video enjoyed it.
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
The internal relief idea is good. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Really enjoyed your video! I'm glad to see somebody has a cement mixer that is older than mine!! I I like that bag breaker you made for your mixer too, but I usually mix my own sand gravel and Portland cement for bigger jobs. My tank in in my carport so I'm going to have to go bigger than you on concrete, rebar and may go with 1" thick steel covers, but you gave me some good ideas I can use. THanks!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching!
Great job!
Thanks!
I really enjoyed your video. You got a new subscriber. 👍🏻
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thank you!!
Hey nice job.. I did something similar for my slab lid tank that was 2 feet down in solid clay. I spent 20 years digging the thing up every 2 to 3 years before I got smart and built some risers..:)
Hopefully I won't have to use it much, but if I do, it should be much easier. Thanks for watching!
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You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
amazing that you gorgot a couple of handles for the lid ,anyway that was impressive job
Thank you, but I didn’t forget the handles. I didn’t want anything sticking up that I would hit with the lawnmower. Thanks for watching!
skills to pay the bills!
LOL! I guess it kinda works that way. Thanks for watching!
Awesome video. Thanks.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
@@southerningenuity4458
Yes sir. I wish I had your skills. You’ve been blessed to be able to work with a wide variety of materials. Taking the time to document what you do blesses others. Thanks again.
Thank you sir.
Nice skills, too much overkill, but an excellent job 👍
Thank you sir!
Great video, looks great and everything but this is a lot of work and requires a decent amount of tools. Riser prices are pretty affordable compared to the time and effort this takes. This is one of those good to know how to videos but I will never do it unless the price goes way up.
Yeah, it was probably a little much, but I enjoy doing stuff like that. Wasn’t really intended to be a “How To” video, just for entertainment and to spark ideas in the viewer. But thanks for watching and thanks for the comment.
Can the cover and riser withstand the weight of a zero turn mower?
Great video!
It should be able to handle that, though I haven't tested it to see for sure. Being that the outside dimensions are 30 inches, the mower should be able to straddle the cover with only a little bit of the tires resting on the edges. Thank you, and thanks for watching!
little overboard ? dont you think ? hey, if it makes you happy go for it.
Lol....maybe a little overboard, but thanks for watching!
@@southerningenuity4458 it was my pleasure
Great work. You needed to make two.
one for the inlet and one for the outlet.
Thanks. That’s a good idea. I’ve still got the concrete forms, so I may have to do that soon. Thanks for watching!
@@southerningenuity4458 Two days ago, I had my neglected septic pumped out.
We had to dig for both lids and it cost me $$$$$.
He said he needed to have access to both ends to clean and check the inlet and outlet pipes also.
He showed me how to build risers out of regular 8'' concrete blocks and install a 24'' x 24'' exterior concrete cap.
After he left, I went straight to work on the project and it's turning out nice.
It's going to be way cheaper next time for sure.
He said the next clean-out should be 3 years with 3 adults in the house.
I'm thinking 5 years.
Hope your project turns out good. I'll definitely need to get that other cover done on mine.
@@timgiles9413 Sounds like your guy was a slack jaw. I had mine pumped a couple weeks ago. He probed the ground for a minute or so and then dug up each lid with just a few inches on each side. He told me 5 years on a pump out based on two adults and two children. I'd do the 3 years he told you, and reevaluate periodicity at that point. Much cheaper to pump too often than to replace the leach field.
@@benjaminreinhardt259 I had mine pumped in 2022. I'll have it done again in 2025 (3 years) then every 5 years, 2030, 2035 etc.
how many bags of concrete did you use for the project?
I can't remember for sure now, but maybe about six 80 pound bags. Thanks for watching!
I would say you did a perfect job. However, that's alot of correction for only 6 inches deep. I have one 18 inches deep. Some reason you didnt drill small holes in tank around (original) lid and epoxy rebar to tank????
Thanks! I just figured that once the tar set for a while, it would be act like an adhesive. Plus, the dirt all the way around would help hold it in place. Thanks for watching!
If I had a septic lid that close to the surface, I'd just dig it up and save the money & effort. Nice job though.
That's my plan for the opposite end cause it's even closer to the surface and I won't have to guess it's location. Thanks for watching!
Hey brother! Why did you choose to put no iron on it?
I'm asking because my last 2 lids explode when a car pass through it.
There is rebar in both the side wall and the cover. The tank is right beside my house, so the only thing that should be driving over it is the lawn mower. Thanks for watching!
@@southerningenuity4458 I'm the one Thanking you for answering 🙏
Keep up the good work 💪
This is a cool video to make something. But they make plastic risers that you just shoot tapcon screws into the concrete. The lid has a nice rubber seal. And it cost about $100.
This is true, but buying a riser wouldn’t have been near as much fun. LOL! Thanks for watching!
Plus plastic risers tend to be very expensive.
I've never seen one for 100.
handles
Didn’t want anything sticking up that I would hit with the lawn mower. Hopefully I won’t have to open it that often. Thanks for watching.
excellent video,need to find a less skilled youtuber haha
Lol. Thanks.
test.
It survived the drive over it with the lawn mower test, so it should be good. Thanks for watching!
@@southerningenuity4458 I was testing my ability to post last night every time I posted my comment disappeared. My tank is 3 feet below ground level. I've been dig'n forever.
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 Wow! You may have to make a riser for yours as well. That's a long way to dig. Hope it isn't too much trouble.
@@southerningenuity4458 I'll post a video of it once I'm done. I'm trying to lose 20lbs and digg'n is good hard work..lol. I plan on just getting a 55 gallon poly barrel and cutting it in half and using that as the risers.
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 Cool! Be sure to let me know when you get the video up.
Why the irritating music !!!
Why not just turn the volume down? Thanks for watching!
Why not just buy a 25 dallor riser you must be a politician lol
That would have been too easy. Lol. Thanks for watching!
They're around $300 each!
Please, leave a link for a $25 riser that's not made out out cardboard, nose hair, and toenail clippings 🤣
3:36 why would you think you need that? If you just made a normal box you could easily knock the inner boards inward, then knock the outer boards inward afterwards.
I've done that before with other concrete forms and it was never easy to remove the boards. It always required considerable pounding with a hammer and/or prying with a pry bar and wound up destroying the wood in the process. The concrete on this project was not very thick and I didn't want to risk cracking it while trying to remove the inner form. Thanks for watching!