Are you wondering how septic inspections work? If you are looking to buy a home with this type of wastewater treatment system, a septic tank inspection is vital. Septic inspections make sure that the system is operating as it should so that you and your family don’t get sick thanks to a leak or other problems.
Septic systems treat and disperse relatively small volumes of wastewater from individual or small numbers of homes and commercial buildings. As a homeowner, you are responsible for maintaining your septic system. Proper septic system inspection and maintenance will help keep your system from failing and will help maintain your investment in your home.
Since the septic system is a water treatment system located underground, it is a type of inspection that is easily overlooked. However, if something goes wrong, you will regret not having had septic inspectors check your system regularly.
It isn’t only when you are looking to buy a home that septic inspections are needed. A septic tank inspection should be done throughout the time you own the home. Otherwise, you could find an expensive repair bill waiting for you for this vital system in your home.
The three main components of a working septic system are as follows:
Without anyone of these components of a septic system functioning properly, you could have issues. Some of them can be fairly minor to correct such as a cracked cover on a septic tank. Where big money comes in is when you have to replace a leach field. When a leach field fails you’ll be looking at big bucks to fix it.
To make sure your septic system is functioning perfectly, you should have it inspected every 3 to 5 years. 
This is about the same schedule that you will need to keep when having the tank pumped as well. If you stick to a plan like this, your septic tank should continue to work well for the life of the system. If you have a large family, you may want to consider it slightly more often.
Unfortunately, many homeowners don’t stick to a schedule like this. Missing septic inspections and not having the tank pumped as frequently as it should be. The result tends to be that something goes wrong with the system, and only then the homeowner calls the septic inspector.
