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I need to explain to you something you aren't going to hear from nearly all septic companies: I've actually been waist-deep in raw sewage since I was a preteen years old. Sounds appealing, right? Back in the summer of '98, my family and I thought our folks had gone and lost their minds. Instead of signing up for little league like typical kids, we were excavating trenches for our family's new septic system under the scorching Washington sun. We had no idea those wounds would transform into our blueprint.

Here's the dirty truth most companies refuse to admit: Septic work isn't just about pipes and pumps. It's about understanding what occurs underground after the backhoe leaves. Nearly all folks start in this business through service vehicles. We? We started with implements in our hands and mud up to our knees.

I'll never forget the day our installer, old Gus Petrovich, threw me a level and barked, "Boy, if you are unable to lay pipe straight, you will drown somebody's lawn in sewage by Tuesday." He was not wrong. We spent three days that July battling with a difficult clay bed near Redmond—shoveling, measuring, swearing, repeat. But this is the twist: Gus kept taking us to jobs all over Snohomish County. By 15, I could recognize a dying drain field from 50 yards.

That is the DNA of Septic Solutions LLC. While rivals were busy buying fancy trucks, we were learning why systems really fail. Like that disaster project in '03 where we witnessed a "expert" crew install a tank with no regard for soil percolation. Three months later? Property looked like a swamp. We vowed then: No shortcuts. Never.

Jump to 2009. My brother Art (you're going to see his name all over our permits) nearly bankrupted us insisting on thoroughly testing every perc test. "Think about the swamp house," he used to growl. We ate instant noodles for six months. But when the recession hit? Our systems kept functioning while others broke down. Overnight, "Nikolin boys" was a thing shared between contractors.

Here's where we are different: We create systems like we're going to have to service them ourselves. Because guess what? We typically do. Last Thanksgiving, Mrs. Callahan in Woodinville phoned freaking out about a holiday overflow. Art rushed out in his dinner-soiled shirt. As it happened her "no-service" system installed in 2015 had a filter no one told her about. We did not just fix it—we instructed her grandson how to clean it.

You believe that is standard? Think again. The majority of companies want you on a $200/month service plan. We rather you know your system. Like that time we drew drainage diagrams on Dave Miller's kitchen table in Everett while his children added crayon clouds. Why? Because when Dave's willow tree roots invaded his leach field last spring, he caught the waterlogged grass before it turned into a disaster.

Our secret sauce? It's not secret at all. It's in the blisters. In the way Art still answers the phone at (425) 553-3422 himself. In the Instagram reel where my nephew groans at a DIYer's "gravel-free drain field masterpiece" (@septic_solutionsllc—subscribe for laughs and solid tips). It is in the YouTube video where we time-lapsed a 72-hour install in relentless Kirkland rain (@septicsolutionsllc).

But let me share the real magic: We've turned every mistake into your advantage. That green disaster in Bothell? Showed us to add root barriers by default. The "phantom flush" mystery in Sammamish? Now we install effluent filters on all job. Even our tanks are special—we spec heavier concrete after observing how Pacific Northwest winters crack cheaper models.

Please don't just take my testimony for it. Ask the ex- Boeing engineer who tested us to manage his sloping lot in Duvall. "Can't be done," said three companies. We built him a pressurized system that has outlasted two of his cars. Or the young family in Monroe whose developer installed an inadequate tank—we redesigned their whole layout during a snowstorm without busting their budget.

This is not corporate fluff. It's 25 years of frostbitten fingers, confusing soil reports, and stubborn pride in doing it right. We have cried over failed trenches in January storms. Cheered when our sand-filter system saved a historic Carnation farmhouse. Even laid to rest our favorite shovel (RIP #3) with Viking funeral honors after it broke during an legendary granite battle.

So if you're scrolling through septic companies wondering who isn't going to vanish after the check clears? Consider the boys who still know their first lesson from Gus: "A decent system hides. A great system works while hiding." We never just establish this business—we grew it from the ground up, homepage one honest hole at a time.

Your turn. Tell me what your system hiding?