Septic Inspection When Buying or Selling Property in Saline County KS
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...