CountryBumkin
Active Member
I've been thinking for a while about adding a third full-bath to my single story ranch style home. The house is "L" shaped and built on a slab (in FL). I want to add this bathroom at the end of the small-L where there is a second master-sized bedroom.
The problem is that I am on a septic tank system which is in the front yard, and the new bathroom would be at the furthest point from that septic tank and there is a pool in the way.
One on my neighbors had a bathroom/mother-in-law suite added where the builder used a pump to get the waste from the new bath to his septic tank in the back. However he was able to pump in a straight line. My setup would not be so easy.
I have a large lot (3 acres) and its pretty much clear in the backyard behind where the new bathroom would go. I was thinking I could put in a second septic tank just for this one bathroom. My know-it-all neighbor says he was told that if you install a septic tank it has be large enough for all the bathrooms (or maybe it was all the bedrooms) in the house - regardless of how many bathrooms are actually going to be connected to it. This doesn't make sense - which why it is probably true.
Has anyone added a bath with a small one-bath sized septic system?
Is there another way to do this I haven't thought of?
The problem is that I am on a septic tank system which is in the front yard, and the new bathroom would be at the furthest point from that septic tank and there is a pool in the way.
One on my neighbors had a bathroom/mother-in-law suite added where the builder used a pump to get the waste from the new bath to his septic tank in the back. However he was able to pump in a straight line. My setup would not be so easy.
I have a large lot (3 acres) and its pretty much clear in the backyard behind where the new bathroom would go. I was thinking I could put in a second septic tank just for this one bathroom. My know-it-all neighbor says he was told that if you install a septic tank it has be large enough for all the bathrooms (or maybe it was all the bedrooms) in the house - regardless of how many bathrooms are actually going to be connected to it. This doesn't make sense - which why it is probably true.
Has anyone added a bath with a small one-bath sized septic system?
Is there another way to do this I haven't thought of?