1. The Septic Genie unit: this measure 36 inches high and is 12 inches in diameter. The Genie is installed in your septic tank and stands upright on the floor of your septic tank. If the opening to your septic tank is smaller than 12 inches, please call us; we make customized units at no extra cost.

2. The air pump. The air pump plugs into a standard 110 electrical outlet usually over by your house. You do not need to run electrical power over to your septic tank.

The air pump can be installed in a crawl space, under a deck, on a porch, in a basement, garage or shed…or can be placed outside in a shaded area that’s not prone to flooding.

The air pump is connected to the Genie by half inch PVC pipe that you purchase separately at your local hardware store. You bury this pipe in a shallow trench.

3. Our special blend of bacteria that do a wonderful job of digesting human waste, fats, oils and grease and all the crud that builds up in your drain field and the soil surrounding your drain field.

4. Written installation instructions with photographs that guide you step-by-step through the installation. Installation usually takes an hour or two…it’s designed for you to do yourself or with the help of a handyman…no special tools or equipment are needed.

The only thing you need to pick up is some half-inch PVC piping, some PVC coupling and glue to join the pipe together.

To watch a video of the installation, click on the following link:

http://www.septicgenie.com/installation_video.html

I was out in the field earlier this week checking on some Septic Genie installations I did a while ago.

Take a look at this liquid sample I took from the first septic tank I looked at.

Isn’t that incredible?

Did you ever think you would see liquid this clear coming directly out of a septic tank? It’s just like tap water!

It’s clear enough to drink but still has pathogens (disease causing organisms) in it…so you probably don’t want to drink it!

However, you could use it for water reuse…more of that at another time.
This is result you get after you install a Septic Genie in your tank.

Our special blend of septic bacteria digest 90%+ of the organic solids in your tank leaving the liquid beautifully clear…as you saw in the video.

These same bacteria get suspended in the liquid leaving your septic tank and get carried out to your drain field and the soil surrounding your drain field. When they arrive there, the bacteria do the same job there as they did in the tank; chewing up all the crud that’s built up in the soil over the years until they open up the natural pores of the soil again.

Once they do this, liquid will drain down through the soil like it’s supposed to do and your drain field will dry out and your septic system will return to normal functioning.
And…there’s even better news…your system will not clog again in the future…provided you keep the Genie operating.

So that’s it…install a Septic Genie in your septic tank and any septic problems you’ve been having will be a thing of the past…guaranteed not to return.

I thought I’d share this story with you today…we’re not just here to sell you a Septic Genie…we guarantee to offer you honest sound advice…and as you will see here, with our advice Deanna was able to solve her problem..she didn’t need a Septic Genie.

Here’s her story:
Thank you so very much for your advice and information. What you gave me sure helped me sound like I knew what I was talking about when I confronted the repair man that ripped me off.

I was also able to ask the correct questions and find a man that came down from Elmore today and for just the price of a service call I now have a running septic system, pump, sprinklers and all green lights on my board.

THANK YOU!!!!!  THANK YOU!!!!!!!   GOD BLESS!!
I am being reimbursed from the original repair man for all the service calls and he says he will be shipping me a new board since his crew couldn’t figure out how to silence the alarms they damaged mine and it will not sound anymore.

(I was wondering why all of a sudden he was telling me I had to have a new board and I told him to test the old one first and then this am he called and said “your new board is in…..” Boy, that made me really start to wonder and then when the new guy came out he showed me what had happened and it all made since.

The original repair man said, “well, good help is hard to find.”

This single, working mom and new home owner sure does appreciate you responding to my questions yesterday. Good deeds are returned.

Thanks,
Deanna

Most septic tanks have a liquid depth of 51 inches…meaning there will be 13 inches of liquid above the Genie when it is standing upright on the bottom of the septic tank.

The Genie works fine in a single or two compartment tank; we’ve got thousands of installations in single compartment tanks.

Occasionally, some openings to the tank are smaller than 12 inches; in these instances we customize the unit for our customers so it will fit into the septic tank. We do this for the same price as the standard unit.

The air pump that’s supplied with your Septic Genie is plugged into a standard 110 electrical outlet, usually on the outside of your house. This air pump “draws”, or uses 1.3 amps of electricity per hour or 143 watts. Assuming your cost of electricity per Kilowatt Hour is $0.076, as an average, the cost to run the air pump for a month would be $5.47 or 18 cents per day.

The only other ongoing cost to keep your Genie working properly and keeping your septic system functioning well is the annual replacement of our Genie bacteria blend; the bacteria replacement bag costs $25.00 and costs $3.00 to $5.00 to ship depending where in the US you live. Let’s assume $30.00…once a year. This equates to 8 cents a day!

So…for the grand total of 26 cents per day you can have a trouble-free septic system!

And remember…you probably won’t have to pump your septic tank for 15 to maybe 20 years…our bacteria will digest 90%+ of the organic matter in your tank so there will be nothing left to pump.
To find out more about Septic Genie and how it can help visit our website:

http://www.septicgenie.com/actingup2.html

The earlier you can get started the better…with the warmer weather over spring and summer the liquid temperature in your septic tank is higher than in the fall and winter and our septic bacteria do a much better job.

Ideally, the bacteria would like the temperature in your septic tank to be 80 to 85 degrees to work at their best…however this isn’t likely to happen in your septic tank…unless you heat it!

As the liquid temperature in your septic tank drops the septic bacteria’s performance diminishes; they still work at digesting organic waste, but not with the same efficiency. The lower the temperature of the liquid the less effective they are. Hence over the fall and winter the bacteria are less effective than in the spring and summer.

Therefore I like to get really aggressive with treatment over the summer in order to unclog the drain field and get liquid flowing through it again before fall and winter set in.

You could say septic bacteria are like you and I; we both prefer warmer temperatures!

Thie moisture on the surface of the worm’s skin allows oxygen from the atmosphere to pass through the worm’s thin skin and enter the blood in its circulatory system.
Worms can survive long periods of time under water, especially if the water has a high oxygen content.

Soooo…earthworms can’t survive in conventional septic tanks…as there is very little oxygen.

However, once you install a Septic Genie in your septic tank it is possible to have earthworms living there!

The Genie produces a wonderful oxygen rich environment in your septic tank, the liquid becomes clear with no odor and a colony of earthworms can happily live there.

Take a look at this picture taken of a septic tank effluent filter. You’ll see fine tree roots wrapped around the filter and in between the roots you’ll see healthy earthworms.

Tough to believe eh?

Now you know…install a Septic Genie and turn your smelly, nasty septic tank dumping raw sewage into the ground and clogging it, into a wonderful container holding clear, odorless, highly treated liquid that flows smoothly through your soil and who knows…you may even have your own colony of earthworms growing there.

The only long term way to accomplish this is to change the bacteria community in the septic tank, dramatically reduce or remove the organic material leaving the septic tank and inoculate bacteria into the effluent leaving the septic tank that will consume the biomat.

The problem is biological, the solution is biological.

To understand how Septic Genie works, you need to understand a little about the bacteria in a septic system. Remember, bacteria do the work of digesting and treating our waste. There are two distinct groups of bacteria, anaerobes that do not use oxygen for energy and aerobes that use oxygen for energy.

There is third group of bacteria that are a bit of both. They are called facultative bacteria. Facultative bacteria can be either anaerobic bacteria that can temporarily change their metabolism to an aerobe (facultative aerobes) or an aerobe that can temporarily change their metabolism to an anaerobe (facultative anaerobes).

You most frequently find facultative aerobes in the intestines of animals with guts. You most frequently find facultative anaerobes in forest leaf litter, humic soils and composting vegetation.

It is the facultative anaerobic bacteria that are important. It is well known by the septic industry that facultative anaerobes will break down the biomat slime and consume solids when deprived of oxygen. A disposal field full of slime and solids has no oxygen. The problem was how to get them into a septic system cheaply and efficiently.

That is where the patented ABG technology of the Septic Genie saved the day. Septic Genie grows them in your septic tank using your organic solids as food. They digest your waste for food thereby removing it from the system; they increase their numbers and leave the septic tank entrained in every cup full of effluent and travel to your drain field.

In the drain field they migrate into the soil, quickly break down the biomat and restore the drain field to full function. With a properly operating Septic Genie in your septic tank your drain field can’t fail again from biomat clogging of the soil.

Anaerobic conventional septic systems have been historically treated as a dumping ground for any type of waste liquid.  This is now fast becoming a problem for the industry.  Basically putting anything into a septic tank that you wouldn’t first put into your mouth, or anything that is fundamentally toxic to bacteria should not be put into a septic tanks.

Obviously, as a culture, we won’t follow that exact rule.  Reasonable amounts of the normal products we use in our homes can go into a septic tank.  The real problem still remains Biomat clogging of soils around drain fields.

The back wash from water softeners is loaded with sodium as rock salt is the medium used for ionic exchange that binds up minerals with the salt.  This sodium in the back wash will stratify in the soils around the leach lines and slow down the movement of liquid through it.

Eventually, with biomat and other organic compounds that infiltrate the soil pores, failure is the outcome.  As failure is designed into and expected for these anaerobic systems within a couple of decades, excessive amounts of any of the materials described merely decreases the time period to failure.

You should try and discharge the back wash to another place and leave the septic system to handle your biological waste from the home.

Installing a separate small drain field to handle the back wash is easy and shouldn’t be expensive.

Your septic system will continue to degrade unless you do something to reverse the process of biomat slime buildup.  Or you can replace the disposal field.  Costly, extremely damaging to your property and the new field will fail again from exactly the same process.

The Septic Genie technology was developed to address just this problem.

Jetting the lines merely cleans out any accumulated solids laying within the disposal pipe.  At times, there can be a plugging effect from these solids.  But jetting the lines does not address the soil clogging issue.  In fact, some the solids in the lines will be washed into the leach lines.  As your tank has refilled, it is apparent that biomat is clogging the soil not solids blocking the outlet holes in the pipe.

This is the ideal time to install a Septic Genie.  There is still capacity in the disposal field so the effluent with the Genie bacteria entrained in it can reach the soil where it is needed to remediate the biomat.  The longer the problem lasts the more time it takes for the Genie bacteria to work at restoring your disposal field.

Septic systems depend on bacteria.  Unfortunately, we have used the wrong bacteria for nearly a century.  Septic systems are a closed system.  In a conventional anaerobic septic system the only bacteria that are “allowed” in are the ones from your intestines.  They normally do not survive outside of your body.

But in an anaerobic septic tank they manage a meager existence.  By adding countless more each day, we develop a large community in the septic tank.  When they leave the septic tank entrained within the effluent, they don’t perish. They again establish a meager existence in the soil pores and over time, they cause 95%+ of failures just like yours by doing what they evolved to do, consume energy, secrete slimes (biomat) and divide.

The Septic Genie provides a better species of bacteria (facultative), kills the vast majority of anaerobic intestinal bacteria we deposit in the septic tank each day, and leave the septic tank and travel through your leach lines to the disposal field and breakdown the biomat slimes.  Everyday, the Septic Genie continues to remediate the soils and keep the system functioning properly.