What a Conversion Involves
Locating and planning the route from your house to the sewer stub or main, permits with the city/county and sewer utility, excavation and a new code-compliant sewer line (with a proper cleanout — you get the good access from day one), the physical connection, inspections, and coordinating the septic tank's decommissioning per Pierce County health department requirements — tanks have to be pumped and properly abandoned, not just left.
When Conversion Makes Sense
Sewer has reached your street and connection is available (some areas eventually require it). Your septic system is failing and a replacement drainfield would cost as much as connecting. You're selling, and a septic near end-of-life is dragging the deal. Or you're building an addition or ADU your septic system was never sized for.
The Honest Cost Conversation
Conversions have several cost layers: our line and connection work, the utility's connection/capacity fees, and decommissioning. We quote our scope flat-rate after walking the site, and we tell you which fees come from the utility versus us — so the total is a real number, not a moving target.