Cesspool & Septic Inspections in Orchidland Estates, HI

Inspections in Orchidland Estates

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 Orchidland Estates

Orchidland Estates sits mauka of Keaau between Highway 130 and Highway 11, a big agricultural subdivision of mostly three-acre lots on rising ground, with Orchidland Drive, Laniuma Drive and Pohaku Drive carrying traffic in from the highways and a web of unpaved roads behind them. It is wetter and greener than HPP, with ohia forest, orchid and anthurium farms, and homes tucked back behind long driveways where a visitor can drive past the house twice. Every one of those homes is on catchment and on its own wastewater system, cesspools on the older places and septic on the newer. The ground is young lava under a thin layer of forest duff that holds water like a sponge, so pits here stay wet, and three acres of trees means roots and lava tubes are both in play when a conversion is designed. Orchidland also has a lot of part-time and off-grid owners, people who are there a few months a year and whose cesspool sits idle and then gets a full house. We pump, inspect, convert and repair in Orchidland regularly. Tell us the road, how to find the driveway, and what the system is doing, and we will come prepared 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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