A Tacoma homeowner called us out after the septic alarm on the side of their house went off. The job we were asked to do was troubleshooting rather than pumping: when an alarm sounds, the first thing to establish is what set it off.
In this case the alarm was doing exactly what it was built to do. There was nothing wrong with the alarm itself — it had correctly detected that the tank was full. That turned the visit into a straightforward one, and we pumped the tank out.
It is worth saying plainly, because an alarm going off usually reads as a breakdown: sometimes the alarm is the system working. It is there to tell you the tank needs attention, and on this job that is precisely what it did. If yours is sounding, it is worth having someone find out why rather than simply resetting it.
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