Septic System Repairs in Clover & York County, SC

Keith’s work runs from the tank to the drain field. He fixes what is broken and tells you plainly when a part is fine. Here is what each failure looks like from inside the house.

Keith pumped a tank for a homeowner near his own house in Clover. While the tank was open he saw that the outlet baffle was failing, and he told the owner.

“I’d told him a year before that the outlet baffle was on its way out.”
Keith Morehead

A year later the owner was selling the house and called Keith back for the pre-sale inspection. Keith replaced the outlet baffle. Then he checked the next thing downstream, the distribution box that splits the flow across the drain field, and found it was “like mush.”

Both problems came to light before the sale, not after it. The baffle is why Keith looks at the outlet side of every tank he pumps. A baffle caught early is a small repair. One that is missed sends solids into the drain field.

It comes down to the outlet pipe.

• If the pipe is still level, Keith knocks off the crumbling baffle and fits a new one. That takes minutes.
• If the pipe has sunk, a new baffle alone won’t fix the flow. Keith digs out five or six feet beyond the tank to bring the pipe back to level, and the job is bigger.

He can tell which one you have once the tank is open, and he quotes the repair by the job before he starts. How Keith prices his work is explained on the septic pumping cost page.

Keith repairs leach fields and drain fields, including the distribution box that feeds them. Call when you see any of these:

• Wet, soggy ground or standing water over the field.
• Bright green grass over the field when the rest of the yard is not.
• Drains that slow down again soon after the tank was pumped.

When a tank itself has failed, Keith installs new and replacement septic tanks. If you are not sure whether the problem is the tank, the field, or the pipe from the house, start with a diagnosis on the septic tank inspections page.

A Rock Hill homeowner had been told by another company that the septic system was finished and had to be replaced. A full replacement was more than the owner could afford.

Keith offered something else to try first: a professional-grade bacterial treatment sold under the Morehead name, which is not available in stores. He was clear that he could not promise it would work.

It worked. That will not be true for every failing system, and Keith will tell you so before you spend anything. But it is the reason he looks for a way to save a system before he talks about replacing one.