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Septic service
Licensed and certified for septic tank installation, tank repairs, pump replacements and drainfield service, with 24/7 emergency calls and free estimates.
Wet grass, slow drains and a system you cannot see
A septic system fails out of sight and shows itself in plain sight. The grass over one stretch of the yard stays soggy while the rest dries out. Tubs and sinks drain slowly. A toilet gurgles when the washer runs. After a hard rain there is a smell in the yard that was not there last month. Picture a cross-section of the lot: the tank buried in the ground, the pipe running out of it, and the drainfield spread through the soil below the lawn. Every one of those signs starts down there.
From the kitchen sink, a full tank, a dead pump and a drainfield that has quit taking water all feel the same. They are not the same repair. Peterson looks at what is happening below grade first, so a homeowner in Houma or Thibodaux gets the fix that matches the part that failed. Estimates are free, and emergency calls are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Exterior dig at a brick house foundation with new PVC pipe and a cleanout
What Peterson does under the lawn
Peterson is licensed and certified for four kinds of septic work. Tank installation puts a new tank in the ground where an old one has given out. Tank repair fixes the one you already have. Pump replacement swaps out the pump when it burns out or stops moving water through the system. Drainfield service works on the buried lines and the soil that take the water in the end, which is where a lot of yard problems really sit. Their own list finishes with the words and more, because every lot is a little different.
Mark Peterson, Louisiana Master Plumber #1416, is on every job, and that includes septic work around Kenner, Metairie and out toward Houma. The company has been working under New Orleans area homes since 1979, on slabs, sand and sewer lines, so the ground is familiar. A septic call is the same kind of work as the rest of the trade: dig carefully, find the real problem, fix it, and leave the job site clean.
Why a septic fix is worth doing right the first time
Out where there is no city sewer main, the septic system is the only sewer the house has. When it quits, the wastewater has nowhere else to go. It comes back up into the tubs, or it comes up through the lawn. Either way the family is living on top of the problem, which is why Peterson keeps emergency service running all night and on weekends, every day of the year.
What you want afterward is plain: a yard that dries out, drains that run quiet, and a system nobody has to think about again. Getting there means finding the cause underground instead of treating the symptom on top. That is the whole approach, and it is why the person who looks at your system is the owner, not a stranger who has never seen the ground your house sits on.
Licensed and certified for septic tank installation, tank repair, pump replacement and drainfield service. Owner on every job, emergency calls answered 24/7.