Grinder Pump Repair and Installation in Wimberley TX

Hill Country lots do not always let gravity do the work. If your house sits below the sewer main, or your septic setup has to lift wastewater to reach the drain field, a grinder pump is what makes the system function. When it stops, everything downstream of it stops too, which is why these calls do not wait.

The control panel alarm is the obvious one, and it is worth taking seriously the first time rather than the third. Short of that: drains slowing down across the whole house at once, the pump running much longer than it used to or cycling on and off, gurgling from fixtures, or odor near the tank.

If the alarm is going, go easy on water use until we get there. Hold off on laundry, the dishwasher, and long showers. The tank is filling faster than the pump can empty it, so the less you put in, the more room you have.

A grinder pump is a motor, a cutter assembly, float switches, check valves, and a control panel. Any one of them can take the system down. Float switches and check valves fail often and cost a fraction of a full replacement. So does a cutter assembly jammed on something that should not have gone down the drain.

Wipes are the main offender, including the ones sold as flushable. They are the most common thing we pull out of a jammed cutter. Also grease, paper towels, and anything fibrous. The pump will try to grind all of it, and eventually it loses.