To save homeowners the cost of hiring a professional septic designer and excavator, you can build a septic tank system yourself. The installation of new septic systems is expensive even if you build your own septic tank and drainage systems by hand. But still you could save money by installing a septic tank system yourself.

Often people e-mail me to ask me where they can find the septic tank cover for a septic tank, the manhole or how to find a septic tank itself. To which the answer is always: "I don't know". In this Plumbing How To we will show you that a septic tank and septic covers are never located in the same place, making the septic tank lid hard to find, even for the experts.