Mike's Services LLC — Central Kansas Contractor Blog

You have found a place outside Salina, the inspection came back clean, and then somebody asks about the septic. Nobody knows how old it is. Nobody knows where the lateral field runs. The seller thinks it was pumped a few years ago. Here is what a septic inspection actually involves on a Saline County acreage, and why it is worth doing before money changes hands rather than after. Almost every property outside Salina city limits is on its own septic system. Saline, Ottawa, Lincoln, Dickinson, Ellsworth and Cloud counties are full of houses that have been treating their own wastewater for thirty or forty years without anyone thinking much about it. That works fine right up until the place changes hands. Then the septic becomes the one major system on the property that nobody has any paperwork for — and the one that costs the most to be wrong about. Why the septic is the biggest unknown on a rural property A home inspector will tell you about the roof, the furnace, the panel a...

If you're out in Lincoln County and you've been told your property is too rocky for a standard septic system — or you're buying land near Minneapolis, Sylvan Grove, or Lincoln and trying to figure out what a septic install is actually going to take — this post is for you. Post Rock limestone country is beautiful, but it does not give up ground easily, and the wrong system design will cost you far more than doing it right the first time. Lincoln County sits right in the heart of Post Rock country. That stone fence post limestone that runs through the Smoky Hills isn't just a scenic feature — it's what's under your feet when you're trying to install a septic system. Designing a system on rocky ground here is a different conversation than installing one in the river bottom clay of Ottawa County or the sandy loam closer to Salina. This guide covers what that actually means for rural homeowners, what system types hold up best through Kansas freeze-thaw cycle...