Cesspool & Septic Inspections in Hawaiian Acres, HI

Inspections in Hawaiian Acres

Almost every home sale on this side of the island involves a cesspool or a septic system, and almost every buyer, agent and lender now wants it pumped and inspected before closing. We inspect cesspools and septic systems for buyers, sellers and owners across Hilo, Puna and the Hamakua coast. For a cesspool we locate and open the pit, pump it down so we can see the walls and the floor, watch how fast it refills, check the inlet and the cover, and note how close it sits to the catchment tank and the property lines. For a septic system we open the tank, measure sludge and scum, check baffles, lids and risers, run water from the house to see how it handles flow, and walk the leach field or seepage bed for wet ground or odor. You get a plain written summary of what you have, what condition it is in, and what it will need, so a buyer can decide with open eyes, a seller can hand over proof, and nobody is arguing about a wastewater system the week before closing.

Cesspool and septic service in Hawaiian Acres

Hawaiian Acres is one of the big upland Puna subdivisions, a grid of three-acre lots stretching from Highway 11 near Kurtistown back into the ohia and hapuu fern forest toward Mountain View, laid out on numbered and lettered roads that are mostly unpaved and maintained by the people who live on them. It is high, cool and wet, well over a hundred inches of rain a year, and it has a strong off-grid streak: catchment water everywhere, solar on many roofs, and homes that range from plantation-style houses to cabins at the end of a half-mile cinder driveway. Every one is on a cesspool or a septic system of its own. The ground is young lava under forest floor, and the deeper roads see the most rain and the slowest drainage, so a cesspool back on Road 8 behaves differently from one near the highway. Hawaiian Acres also has a lot of newer owners who bought cheap acreage and are now sorting out what a cesspool is, how the state deadline affects them, and whether the pit behind the house will pass an inspection when they sell. We pump, inspect, convert and repair in Hawaiian Acres regularly, and we know the roads. Tell us the road, how to find the lot, and what the system is doing, and we will come ready and quote it straight.

• Inspections for buyers, sellers, agents and owners
• Cesspool pumped and the walls, floor and refill rate checked
• Septic tank opened, sludge and scum measured, baffles and lids checked
• Flow test run from the house to see how the system handles a load
• Leach field or seepage bed walked for wet ground and odor
• Clear written summary for the buyer, the seller and the lender

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