Mr. Kobi,
In my basement, it is fully finished, complete with a FULL bathroom. No septic system. Fully plumbed (running water, sewer, etc). My chit goes into the sewer like the rest of the toilets. And no sump pump either. We've never had any problems with leaks in both of the houses I've lived in. When you do buy a house out here, make sure it has a basement.

 

My parents have a full bath in the basement and they do not have a waste pump. They've lived there 12 years, they moved in just as I turned 19, basement was were mine and my brothers bedrooms were so the bathroom was ours when I was there. We used that bathroom hard and it never failed. They still owned this palce so I stayed here part of it too, then after a few months I moved back to this house, then got married and bought it from them. My borother continued ot use tha tbathroom for several years, and I swear there is something wrong with him. If it can handel him and not back up it's a good system.

I wouldnt exclude a house just because thier is a bathroom in the basement, and if your looking inside the city limits they have a sewer system, you don't have to worry about septic. Someplaces have Natural gas, most have to have propane tank if you choose that. I am 100% electric and heat with wood. I would like to add a propane stove (best way to cook IMO) and a propane water heater for cost and incase power goes out again.

 

That reminds me. Kobi, every drain pipe in our house runs straight down to the basement, where they all collect in one big 4 - 6" diameter pipe. From there, the pipe goes straight down to the basement floor and out into the sewer system (somehow).

 

Kobi, septic tanks are nothing to be afraid of. We live to far away from city sewer and have a septic, no big deal. My folks have lived in their house for 45 years with a septic and never had any problems with it.

 

LMFAO!

Kobi, you need to take a week off and fly to MN. I'd love to take you through the Boundary waters in northern MN and see how you do. You won't have to worry about **** coming back to haunt you from your septic, but rather if a bear will get you will you're taking your ****.

I mean forget septic, there are cabins up there that haven't reached that stage yet. They're still working with an out house. Try running to take a leak in a -40 degree snow storm.

If you don't get a house with a basement or one with a bathroom in the basement then you'll have a really hard time trying to resell it.

If it's a house with a sewer connection then you have nothing to worry about. If it has a septic connection then you just pay someone to inspect it all before you buy. Then you protect yourself against any failures. Our problem was a bad pump that was never inspected.

 

HAHA, where we go camping, most the toilets are outhose sistern (sp?) systems. I'm fairly country but I have a hard time taking a dump. I'd rather sqwat next to a tree. I can pee anywhere but on the rare occasions I cant make it up to the flushable toilets to crap, the entire time I sit there I have thoughts of sci-fi horor movies and some nasty monster is down there and it's going to come up and pull me by my bare butt cheeks down there with it.

 

You need to quit watching horror movies!!!

 

Only on f150online can discussion turn from Midwestern Plains basements to poo. I love it!

There is something to be said about traveling back roads when the urge really hits you and there's no holding back.

 

Which brings up the question......

What do you use first?

Me look for leaves.
Next: my socks
Next: My underwear
Next: rip off a shirt sleeve
Next: my shirt
After that, if' I'm that far, I'm out of options, screw it! I'll throw the pants away when I get home.

 

I am a civil engineer and my co-workers in the waste water group have the following saying:

"Your chit is our bread and butter."

 

Oh . . . dude . . . come on, man . . . it's getting close to lunch time! Uncool.

Actually, can we get this thread back on track, or at least talk about something else. I really don't want to read/think about "poo".

 

I always have kleenex and baby wipes in my truck.

 

When we're out pheasant hunting I make damn sure there is a roll of TP in every truck.

The one time I had an emergency stop, it was dark out and about 4" of snow on the ground. Since we had our 1 yr-old with us, we had baby wipes, clean and comforting...that's how I roll.

 

Sorry kobi, if you want this native Wheat State boy's advice, don't worry about sewer, septic, or any of that nonsense. The first mod you need on that Denali is this bad boy:

 

It'd be really funny if his wife started driving off when Kobi was sitting on that thing.

Duke