Watertown, Tennessee · Wilson County
Septic tank pumping, inspection and repair.
Tanks emptied and cleaned, systems inspected, drain fields and lines repaired, and new systems installed. If something is backing up right now, the phone is faster than anything on this page.
(615) 237-3888Pumping, inspection, repair and installationBased in Watertown, Tennessee
What we do
Three categories, twelve jobs.
Grouped by the work rather than by the machine that does it: what gets emptied, what gets found out, and what gets repaired or put in. If you only know the symptom, the list further down starts from that instead.
Pumping & Cleaning
- Septic Tank Pumping
- Tank Cleaning & Filters
- Pumping on a Schedule
- Backups & Overflows
Inspections & Problems
- Finding and Uncovering the Tank
- System Inspections
- Drain Field Checks
- Slow Drains & Blockages
Repairs & Installation
- Drain Field Repair & Replacement
- Line Repair & Replacement
- New System Installation
- Excavation & Backhoe Work
Why pumping matters
The cheap job and the expensive job are the same job.
A septic tank separates what arrives from the house. Solids sink, grease floats, and only the liquid in the middle is supposed to go out to the drain field. The field is stone and perforated pipe in the ground, and its one job is letting water soak away into the soil.
When the tank is not emptied, the sludge builds up until solids start leaving with the water. The field can filter water and it cannot filter solids, so the stone clogs from the inside and the ground underneath stops accepting anything.
That is the whole of it. Pumping a tank is a truck visit. Replacing a drain field is excavation, new stone, new pipe and sometimes a new field in a new place, and it is the largest job a residential septic system has. They are the same problem caught at two different times.
Start here
What is it doing?
Most people arrive here with a symptom rather than a service in mind. None of these tells you what is wrong, because nothing short of opening the lid can. They point at the page that explains what usually comes next.
- Sewage is coming back up a drainBackups & Overflows
- The ground over the tank is wet or softDrain Field Checks
- Every drain in the house is slow at onceSlow Drains & Blockages
- It all stopped working at once, with no warningTank Cleaning & Filters
- Nobody knows when it was last pumpedPumping on a Schedule
- Nobody knows where the tank isFinding and Uncovering the Tank
- You are buying or selling the houseSystem Inspections
- The tank fills up again within days of pumpingDrain Field Repair & Replacement
Photographs
There are no pictures here yet.
Nothing on this site is a stock photograph of somebody else’s truck, and nothing on it was generated. These are the six frames worth taking first, each one a shot that happens on a normal working day.
- Photograph wantedThe truck on a job, with the suction hose run across the grass to an open tank
- Photograph wantedAn effluent filter out of its housing, dirty, before it is rinsed
- Photograph wantedA wet, sunken patch of grass over a tank or a drain field
- Photograph wantedLooking down into a full tank before anything is pumped, with the crust on top and the inlet visible
- Photograph wantedAn open trench in a failed field, showing the black greasy layer in the gravel
- Photograph wantedA new concrete tank being set into an excavation by the machine, mid-lift
Your system
Most people have never seen theirs.
It is buried, it has no moving parts and it gets no attention until it stops. One page, drawn rather than described: what the parts are, which one actually fails, how to find your lid, and what should never go down a drain.
- The tank, the baffles and the filter, drawn in section
- Why the drain field is the part that fails
- How to find your lid without digging up the lawn
- What should never go down a drain on a septic system
Where we work
Out of Watertown.
Taylor’s Septic Tank Service works out of Watertown, Tennessee, in Wilson County, on septic tank pumping and cleaning, system inspections, drain field and line repair, new installations and the excavation that goes with them.
If you are outside town, call and ask. Whether a job is worth the drive depends on the job as much as the distance, and it is a thirty-second conversation.
Get it looked at
Tell us what it is doing.
A tank that is due, a drain that has stopped, or a system nobody has looked at since the house was bought.