Posted by Dave G9N on September 23, 2023 at 16:56:03 from (24.220.196.59):
In Reply to: Salt damaged concrete posted by 550Doug on September 22, 2023 at 10:53:59:
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What is he trying to sell? That sounds like a scare tactic, not good information. If I were to give him the benefit of the doubt, I might say that he is just misinformed. Did you actually see the deterioration? We are talking inside the tank? How old is this tank?
"deteriorating from the salt from my water softener"
The math is against this.
"The outlet of my septic tank has the concrete deteriorating"
If it was salt, it shouldn't be localized.
"This damage does not go below the water line."
But the salt is below the waterline.
There may be something backwashing into the tank through the outlet, but that would be unusual. Since there is apparently a problem, and that's where it is, you have to look at what is going on there that is different from the rest of the system.
The usgs says that a person uses between 80 and 100 gallons of water per day. Various online sources say that most water softeners use about 30-80 pounds of salt per month. I use 1 or 2 bags per month, so it sounds about right.
The math works out to a range of 0.1 to 0.4% salt in the septic tank, for a one person household, not counting the salt already in the drinking water. That is enough to cause some rust, but not enough to adversely affect concrete. If you had have 6 people in the house, six times the water used reduces the the concentration of salt to 1/6 of those numbers. The concentration of salt with 6 people would work out to between 0.02 and 0.07%.
If I were to attempt a repair, I would consider hydraulic cement. Cleaning the area to be repaired well enough to get a good bond would be a challenge.
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