Can a Septic System Be Installed AFTER Moving a Mobile Home to Our Property?
We bought a mobile home cash and now we’re buying the land to put it on, but the land does not have septic installed yet and it will be our responsibility to install it. We could wait until we install the system, but the mobile home is being stored at a day storage fee. We were just wondering if we could move the home to our land first, then hire someone to install septic later.
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All good suggestions, but before you leap into the purchase of the building lot… Does the land pass a perk test? If the soil is poor, the cost of a septic system will be at least 3 times as much as it would be for a conventional style system in well drained soils. This is often a deciding factor in where to (or not) build a new home.
The simplest answer is YES, physically/mechanically you can install the home before the septic system, BUT…
Your local governing health department may have rules preventing that. In a lot of cases, people, if allowed to install the home, will just not get around to installing a proper septic system, but use the toilets, showers, baths, clothes and dish washers, and allow the sewage to just run out onto the ground, which is a VERY BIG HEALTH HAZARD.
Again, IF your local codes allow it, you can install the home first.
Check with your local Building Inspection Department [City if you're within a city limits, and your county if outside a city limit].
SURE! – Depending upon the yard and accessibility to it, there should be no problem with getting the equipment (ditcher and front-hoe) there to dig the trenches for your septic tank and lateral lines.
yes but check differnt codes and permits sometimes hard to get sepit permit but if no problem the sepic is placed average 10+ feet from house or could be less
you needed to have the land perc tested to make sure you can put a septic system in. before you bought it. septic systems don’t just work everywhere. you need the perc test to find out where the system needs to go after it leaves the tank. there has to be a place to put the drain field
or you can’t use a septic system. you need to check with the county
planning commission and they will tell you how big a tank you need
for the size home you have. they might recommend someone to put the system in for you. if a septic system won’t work you might need a sand
filter and their a lot more expensive than a regular septic. you did this backwards, you needed to find suitable land before you bought the mobile. you can install the system after the house is there.
I don’t see why it would have to be a problem, but check with your local building department, they may have something to say about it. It might not be a bad idea to have the septic system in place first in case there are any wrinkles getting that in, or at least talk to a contractor and whoever approves septic fields(usually health dept) and get your septic plan in place, so you know where the field has to go before you put the house on. It would be silly to plunk the home on the lot and then find you’ve put it right where the field has to go. If the land you propose to buy isn’t currently approved for septic already, don’t buy it until it is or you might simply be buying a picnic site. $8/day is peanuts compared to what it might cost to install a septic system.