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Working From Home–The Impact On Septic Tanks

More people are working from home now than ever before. There are a lot of things that change in your home when you work from that space instead of in an outside office. For example, you might notice that your energy bills are higher because you want the heat and air to be at a comfortable level throughout the day. Plus, you are using your computer, printer, and other electrical devices. You might also notice that you need septic tank pumping Petaluma, CA more often than you did in the past.

It makes sense that more people are working from home these days and your family might be spending a lot more time at home in between other schedules. Those items are going to have an impact on the septic system as a whole. Here are a few reasons why that is the case and what you can do about it.

Further Water Use

When everyone is away from the house eight or more hours a day, the septic system isn’t working on transferring water. When you are at home, however, you are sing the restroom, preparing meals, washing dishes, showering, flushing, and doing other such things. You can use dozens if not hundreds of more gallows of fresh water a day through simply being home and living every day life. That means your septic tank will have to process more water than perhaps it did in the past.

Less Septic Rest

Your septic system perhaps was used to processing water and waste during the evening hours and even overnight. But during the day, it gets a break when you and your family are away from the house. It can catch up on processing anything that is needs to and it can eat away at the waste in the tank through the bacteria that is always working hard. But when you start working at home, the septic tank and the system as a whole doesn’t get the break it is used to having. IT has to work harder, which can cause further issues at times.

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More Chances For Something To Go Wrong

You might be very careful about what you place down the drains, but everyone is using hand sanitizer these days and you might buy other products with anti bacterial in them and that can kill off some of the bacteria that is trying to work for you in the septic tank. There are other mistakes you can make with our septic systems and you are more likely to make those mistakes if you are home more often.

The more you use the septic system, the faster the tank will fill up and you are going to have to have septic tank pumping Petaluma, CA done more often than you did in the past. That may feel like a small price to pay for being allowed to work at home. The professionals at American Sanitation Inc can advise you as to how often you need to have that process done.