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Let me explain to you something you will not hear from nearly all septic companies: I have been elbow-deep in raw sewage since I was 12 years old. Sounds appealing, right? Back in the heat of '98, my family and I thought our mother and father had lost their minds. Instead of registering for little league like regular kids, we were digging trenches for our family's new septic system under the scorching Washington sun. We had no idea those wounds would transform into our blueprint.

Let me share the ugly truth nearly all companies won't admit: Septic work is not just about equipment. It is about understanding what goes on underground after the backhoe leaves. Most folks enter this business through service vehicles. We? We started with tools in our hands and muck up to our knees.

I'm never forget the day our installer, old Gus Petrovich, handed me a level and said, "Boy, if you can't lay pipe straight, you will drown a person's lawn in crap by Tuesday." He was not wrong. We spent three days that July battling with a challenging clay bed near Redmond—excavating, measuring, swearing, repeat. But here comes the surprise: Gus kept inviting us to jobs all over Snohomish County. By 15, I could identify a deteriorating drain field from 50 yards.

This is the DNA of Septic Solutions LLC. While rivals were busy buying expensive trucks, we were learning why systems actually fail. Like that horror project in '03 where we watched a "certified" crew install a tank with absolutely no regard for soil percolation. Three months later? Property looked like a swamp. We swore then: No half-measures. Not once.

Jump to 2009. My brother Art (you will see his name all over our permits) nearly bankrupted us insisting on triple-checking every perc test. "Think about the swamp house," he would growl. We ate instant noodles for six months. But when the crash hit? Our systems kept functioning while others broke down. All at once, "Nikolin boys" turned into a thing mentioned between contractors.

Let me explain where we are different: We build systems like we will have to service them ourselves. Because here's the thing? We usually do. Last Thanksgiving, Mrs. Callahan in Woodinville rang freaking out about a holiday emergency. Art drove out in his gravy-covered shirt. Apparently her "no-service" system installed in 2015 had a filter no one told her about. We never just repair it—we instructed her grandson how to clean it.

You think that is standard? Not a chance. Most companies want you on a $200/month care plan. We rather you know your system. Like that time we mapped out drainage diagrams on Dave Miller's kitchen table in Everett while his toddlers added crayon clouds. Why? Because when Dave's willow tree roots invaded his leach field last spring, he caught the wet grass before it turned into a disaster.

Our special ingredient? It ain't not secret at all. You'll find it in the rough hands. In the way Art still picks up the phone at (425) 553-3422 personally. In the Instagram reel where my nephew facepalms at a DIYer's "stone-less drain field masterpiece" (@septic_solutionsllc—check us out for laughs and real tips). You'll see it in the YouTube video where we time-lapsed a 72-hour install in relentless Kirkland rain (@septicsolutionsllc).

But here's the actual magic: We turned every mistake into your advantage. That mossy disaster in Bothell? Taught us to add root barriers standard. The "phantom flush" mystery in Sammamish? Now we install effluent filters on all job. Even our tanks are different—we spec stronger concrete after witnessing how Pacific Northwest winters damage cheaper models.

Don't just take my statement for it. Ask the former Boeing engineer who dared us to handle his sloping lot in Duvall. "Impossible," said three companies. We built him a pressurized system which has outlasted two of his cars. Or webpage the young family in Monroe whose builder installed an too-small tank—we reconfigured their entire layout during a winter storm without breaking their budget.

This ain't corporate fluff. This is 25 years of frozen fingers, misread soil reports, and stubborn pride in doing it right. We've cried over failed trenches in January downpours. High-fived when our sand-filter system rescued a historic Carnation farmhouse. Even interred our favorite shovel (RIP #3) with Viking funeral honors after it shattered during an epic granite battle.

So if you find yourself scrolling through septic companies thinking who isn't going to evaporate after the check clears? Consider the boys who still recall their first lesson from Gus: "A solid system hides. A excellent system works while hiding." We never just create this business—we cultivated it from the ground up, one honest hole at a time.

Your turn. What's your system hiding?