Drain Field Cleaner Tablets by Dr Pooper. Clears Septic Tanks and Drain Fields of Tough Clogs, Scum, Sludge AND Eliminates Odors FAST - Aerobic & Anaerobic Systems - Easy to Use, Just Flush.

Dr Pooper tablets are great! We bought a new home and the first 3 months had to get our septic tank pumped as it now working properly (so we thought). Had (2) septic companies out and both recommended replacing lateral lines and the actual septic tank as both companies said it was undersized. I had been adding Dr Pooper tablets but no changes and still had to have the tank pumped. I checked the clean out on the outlet side of the tank (between the tank and the drain field) and found the effluent nearly at the top. Thinking about this, if the effluent wasn't even getting to the clean-out the Dr Pooper tablets could not work. I dropped (3) Dr Pooper tablets right into the clean out and checked it in the morning. Clean out was perfectly clear except for what effluent should be going through at the bottom.We have never had a problem since and I follow the (1) tablet every 2 weeks and we have never had another problem. I swear by the Dr Pooper tablets and highly recommend there use!!

Why did you pick this product vs others?:My toilet started making a gurgling noise and would not completely flush about every third time. I haven't had my tank cleaned out since I lived here the past seven years. I called a septic cleaning service and they said I had to dig up to where they can access the lid and then they could get me an appointment with one to two weeks notice for $500. In the process a limb fell on my electric line and bent my conduit pole holding my weatherhead. This caused the electric wire to hang down preventing a truck from accessing my back yard until I get it repaired, and I keep getting no responses from electricians. During this, my toilet stop flushing completely with just a little water going down. I saw this product and ordered it. I am shocked, but after using it for three days, my toilet flushes completely every single time with no more gurgling and now more smells. I can't believed it worked so well. I'm still going to have my septic cleaned out, but this product worked really well for me.

The product is great and maintains my septic sand mound system.However, the new product bag packaging leaves something to be desired, unless you like to work on jigsaw puzzles, that is. Broken tablets abound. I did not purchase powder but tablets. More product but it comes pulverized due to shipping. The powder works but how much is the dosage?

I’ve been a contractor for 50 years and put many a septic in. I was a little leery about these tablets but believe it or not. It seems like they’re working.Every year in the spring time my backyard septic is mush. I probably bought this five or six times Because it’s a lot cheaper than tearing up the yard. I’ve had it jetted out, and I’ve added hydrogen peroxide, which I was told with break things up. But it certainly seem like nothing helped until I started using this product.This year the septic area is not mush. So far, I would have to give it a five star rating.

Update:Our lines were just too far gone for this product to be a long-term solution. We had to just bite the bullet and install new leach field pipe.Previous home owners had used corrugated plastic in a sock. Never use this as the sock immediately clogs.Reinstalled with 150 yards of PVC surrounded by river rock, 5 ft. deep. Then plastic cloth over that, then dirt.While doctor pooper helped temporarily, we lost the battle.----We had a squishy and pooling drain field (leach field). We're in the country and it wasn't a huge deal as our leach field is 150 yards out and in a pasture and far down a hill. So, there was no chance that it would back up into the house since the water was eventually coming out and pooling. However, we all know that this isn't what it's supposed to do and not the optimum situation for the cattle that we're planning on having out in that pasture.We had just moved into our very rural home in East Texas that had been very neglected for several years and eventually abandoned a couple years prior our purchasing the property. We bought the home not realizing the septic was pooling because of the vegetation that had been allowed to grow up in the pasture. It was a cash purchase and we knew there were a lot of issues with the home and it was a fixer upper.In any case, after mowing / shredding the pasture and discovering the pooling, I made sure to remove any saplings or small bushes from anywhere near where the pooling was occurring. I found a big root ball directly above the line that was close to the pooling area and removed a large root ball with our tractor and then used copper sulfate to insure that any roots in the leach lines were addressed. Still 5 months later, the leach field was pooling and squishy.I contacted a local septic service that advised me that it would be a huge expense to replace my leach field due to the old anaerobic system we have. The county would get involved, there would need to be an update of the tank, etc. and to try whatever I could on my own to get the lines unclogged and flowing all down the lines. They also advised to add more top soil since erosion had stripped our leach field of at least a foot of dirt. Fair enough. I leveled the leach field as well as possible with more topsoil, immediately.After that, we were still pooling and that is when I decided tried Dr. Pooper and Roebic K-570-Q Leach And Drain Field Opener Concentrate. After three bottles of the Roebic, I was still seeing pooling when we would do laundry or wash dishes (along with normal water usage). I then found Dr. Pooper and decided to give it a try.I don't know if it was a combination of the Roebic and the Dr. Pooper, but I really don't care either way. But, after about the fourth application of Dr. Pooper, our leach field began to dry up. So, my theory is that the previous owners never really did much to make sure the lines were biomat and grease free and put a lot of fish grease down the drain over the years (they were avid fishermen). Once I started to use the Dr. Pooper tablets the results were pretty immediate. I've ordered another bucket and am going to get through those treatments and see where it is then. Then I'll follow their maintenance dosage of one tablet, every two weeks.I was a skeptic but definitely a believer now. I realize that this won't work for some situations. However, if grease and bio material have clogged up your leach line holes, this is definitely worth a shot before spending 15k on a new leach field.That's our story and I'll update this review as things progress.

So far so good. We had a serious blockage in our sewer line. We did the initial dosage as per the instructions. It seemed to help a little. Then dose it again and it seems to be working better yet. Going to dose one more time in a couple of days. If allis good then I'll go to the every so many weeks routine.

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We are pleased with the progress we have seen in the first few days of our use in our septic system to help with our dry well system.