Rainbow Septic

Rainbow Septic is an Austin, Texas septic services company that has served the Austin area and Travis, Williamson, Bastrop and Hays counties since 1999. Its work is built around real estate transactions: the company says it guides sellers, buyers and their agents through the re-sale inspection process so lender requirements are met, and is set up to move a buyer through a septic inspection during the option period.

A re-sale inspection covers locating and uncovering the tank inspection ports and pumping out the contents to check structural integrity, a water load test to watch flow through the system and identify visible impediments, and inspection of the disposal field for surfacing sewage, vegetation, surface drainage and exposed pipes. All accessible components are inspected for visible defects, operability and setbacks and run in normal mode; the system is pumped down, inside walls are sprayed to wash down effluent and sludge, and the effluent filter is cleaned where applicable. Components that cannot be accessed are not inspected.

For raw land, the company sends a septic designer to the site to discuss proposed improvements — house, guest house, pool, driveway, well, propane tanks — and walk the topography, vegetation, water sources, easements and setbacks before determining whether a system can be permitted and installed. Estimated installation costs are discussed on site, but the company says a turn-key bid cannot be given until profile holes are dug and the exact system is determined. It will also order a property's septic records from the governing authority as a courtesy.

The firm says it has over 38 years of combined experience, works with both older systems and newer technologies, and tracks which neighbourhoods flood or are due for city wastewater service. No prices are published; service is ordered through the site's form or by phone.