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Rural properties are most of what we do. Equipment sized for the tank, hand digging around the lid, and the tank actually emptied rather than skimmed.
Mon–Fri 7 a.m.–9 p.m.
Mon–Fri 7 a.m.–9 p.m. · Emergency service based on availability
shanerw@comcast.netColliers, WV
Colliers is inland from Weirton, and it is septic country: there is no town sewer to connect to out here, so a system on the property is simply how a house works.
That makes this a part of the route where almost every property is a potential job, and where most people have at least heard of us.
Mon–Fri 7 a.m.–9 p.m. · Emergency service based on availability
In a place with no sewer at all, the tank is not an afterthought — it is the whole of the drainage. It also means the systems vary enormously. Some were put in properly with a riser to the surface; others were dropped in decades ago and buried under what became a lawn.
What they have in common is the need to be emptied. Sludge builds whether or not anyone is paying attention, and once solids start leaving the tank they go to the drainfield. That is the expensive end of a septic system, and pumping is how you keep it out of trouble.
We cover Colliers and the roads around it for pumping, cleaning, locating a buried lid, and looking over the tank and baffles while it is open. Weirton has its own page if you are nearer the city.
What we do
How it works
We locate the access, uncover it by hand, and pump the tank out in full. On a long drive or a back lot we plan the hose run before we arrive rather than working it out on the day.
With the tank open we check its condition and the baffles, then close it up, backfill, and put the ground back the way it was.
Rural properties are most of what we do. Equipment sized for the tank, hand digging around the lid, and the tank actually emptied rather than skimmed.
Locally owned out of Mingo Junction since 2012, licensed and insured in Ohio and West Virginia, and known along these roads by the trucks.
Long drive, buried lid, no records — none of that is unusual out here and none of it stops the job.
Call or text and tell us what you know; we will take it from there.
FAQs
Properties around Colliers run on their own septic systems. That is why pumping on a sensible interval matters more here than in a town where a sewer connection is the fallback.
Usually not. Tell us what it looks like when you call — where the truck can stand, how far to the tank — and we will plan the hose run instead of improvising.
Yes, and out here it is the normal case rather than the exception. Give us whatever you have — which side the drain runs, where the ground dips, what a previous owner told you — and we take it from there, confirming by probe before a spade goes in.
Three to five years for a typical household. Sooner if the house is full, water use is heavy, or the tank was undersized to begin with.
Mon–Fri 7 a.m.–9 p.m. by phone or text. Emergency work outside those hours is based on availability and weather.
Call or text Wetherell at (740) 632-4843.
Get in touch
For the quickest answers and service-related questions, send us a text at (740) 632-4843.