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Flushable wipes in a septic system- yes or no?
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:21 am
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:21 am
Researched on Google and seems like the consensus is no. But lots of those stories are old. Have the manufacturers like Cottenelle and Equate developed more septic tank friendly products? I don’t want the shitter backing up, but I don’t want these things in a bathroom garbage can either.
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Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:23 am to tigerinthebueche
No. Get a bidet.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:25 am to tigerinthebueche
Nooooooooooooooooooooo
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:32 am to tigerinthebueche
flushable wipes aren't even good for public sewer systems let alone septic systems. I'm surprised there haven't been more areas outlaw them.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:33 am to tigerinthebueche
Tell your girls if they want to use wipes, they need to save for the inevitable plumbing service on the horizon.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:34 am to tigerinthebueche
NO NO NO
dont do it
wipe and dispose in a trash can
i make a good living in facility maintenance on sewer clog cleanout calls. its 99% wipes
dont do it
wipe and dispose in a trash can
i make a good living in facility maintenance on sewer clog cleanout calls. its 99% wipes
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:43 am to cgrand
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wipe and dispose in a trash can
i make a good living in facility maintenance on sewer clog cleanout calls. its 99% wipes
If you flush one wipe at a time, how are the clogging so much? I wipe is smaller than a clump of toilet paper.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:44 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
flush and find out 
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:49 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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If you flush one wipe at a time, how are the clogging so much? I wipe is smaller than a clump of toilet paper.
For many buildings, a flush doesn't get completely out of the structure. They collect in spots without significant flow. So if you aren't running water for a few minutes after each time a wipe is flushed they can and do accumulate.
In an ideal house, every toilet would share a waste pipe with a bathtub so that once a week or so you could fill the tub and drain it blasting everything out of the house into the main sewer pipes.
But even then, wipes wreak havoc with sewer treatment plants because they don't breakdown. They are terrible.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 9:50 am to tigerinthebueche
Anything that fits down the drain is "flushable". Doesn't mean it should be flushed. That term has no meaning.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 10:24 am to leftovergumbo
don't pick a semantics argument with me! I didn't name these things, just using the words by which they are called.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 10:33 am to cgrand
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i make a good living in facility maintenance on sewer clog cleanout calls. its 99% wipes
so the only person using these things in my home is the wife. As a professional, would you recommend I get the septic pumped out just to be safe, or should I not worry about it and just quit flushing them? I don't want to spend money on something that isnt a problem, but I don't want to come home one weekend to backed up toilets (or worse).
Posted on 5/10/22 at 10:39 am to tigerinthebueche
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Flushable wipes in a septic system- yes or no?
not just no but hell no
if its stronger then toilet paper then you dont flush it no matter what it says.
yes it breaks down, after months not hours, and during that time it can cause all sorts of issues
Posted on 5/10/22 at 10:57 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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If you flush one wipe at a time, how are the clogging so much? I wipe is smaller than a clump of toilet paper.
My now late mother-in-law could not be talked out of using wipes and just using toilet paper. Her place flooded twice with backed up sewerage in a 2 year period due to clogged drain pipes.
My wife uses them to remove makeup and tosses them in the trash can in the bathroom as I've made it VERY clear they don't go in the toilet to be flushed.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 11:53 am to cgrand
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flush around and find out
Posted on 5/10/22 at 12:56 pm to TDsngumbo
Septic tank pump guy came to my house told me if he comes across a septic tank full of wipes he won’t pump it.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 1:15 pm to tigerinthebueche
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would you recommend I get the septic pumped out just to be safe, or should I not worry about it and just quit flushing them?
if there is a grinder pump in your treatment plant/tank, then definitely get them out. if its just a tank, they should be down in the bottom now with the rest of the solids you've flushed, below the downstream discharge pipe
if it were me i'd get them out anyway
Posted on 5/10/22 at 1:47 pm to cgrand
thanks.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 1:55 pm to tigerinthebueche
I pump my septic every three years. $300ish bucks buys a lot of peace of mind.
Big household
Big household
Posted on 5/10/22 at 2:07 pm to cgrand
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flush and find out
Been doing it for years.
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