What should I do about these leech field vent pipes?
They’re right behind my house and ugly as hell, what can be done? The smaller one I think will be covered once I build out my deck more but the two big ones need to go.
Cut to height and septic vent caps? Someone else will educate us both if I’m wrong. 😂
MAPNOTAVAILABLE
Dress them up like candy canes.
VerisimilitudinousAI
You can start by painting them green.
Moderatedude9
What part of the country is this? I have a leech field but do not have vent pipes.
CormoranNeoTropical
Messing with them seems like a bad idea. No one wants unintended consequences that involve their sewage system.
Plant trees and paint them to resemble the trunks seems like an idea to me. Or plant shrubs that will swallow them up?
OneImagination5381
Shallow root Shrubs.
Significant_Eye9165
Question: What is a leech field? What problem does it solve? TIA
hotChihuahua69
Vented rocks…
Those plastic rocks to cover pipes and water meter covers as decorative boulders…
Or make your own… YouTube it
T-Rex_timeout
I agree with putting red ribbon to make them candy canes in winter. Get skeletons with top hats and use them as canes for Halloween.
Brave-Moment-4121
Disc golf course DIY
AFriendlyCard
Have you ever seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang???
fadedraw
Surround them with some wood/vinyl panels that have room for airflow and then grow some vines of the them. It will look 100x better than these dune worms.
rayhoughtonsgoals
Turn them into 🦩
WhiskeyPete
Use pipes for climbing roses? You would probably add more for them to climb on like trellis and such. Plant a few shrub roses in choice spots.. could be nice, yet if you’re trying not to have plants, then some privacy fence sections, with landscaping around them or not. Anyway, that’s my initial ideas.
Any-Walk1691
Frisbee golf.
leafcomforter
Paint them like candy canes for Christmas
theFireNewt3030
no way they HAVE to be that tall. If ok, id cut them do the curved, bottom facing opening is 4 inches off the ground. then make mulch beds and landscape the areas with short shrubs, some ground cover etc.
anderhole
Hollowed out totem poles or other sculptures.
Devils_Advocate-69
Clematis
adamfrom1980s
Paint them pink and stick a plastic flamingo beak on them – presto, lawn flamingos!
Extreme_Culture5906
Putting green with obstacles?
spennyTheG
Instantly thought of decking out the yard in permanent Xmas decor w/ painted candy canes to fit, but that might not be your style
3006mv
Hollow out logs Hogans Heroes style
tmcuthbert
Dirty bird septic vent concealer
Beemo-Noir
Large shrubs. Arborvitae. Would look nice. Put a few around each to hide them.
Sufficient_Ad2222
My father’s house has a similar, but shorter pipe. He put decorative well around it
Hank_Amarillo
cut them at ground level, but a valve box over them
Arizona_Adam
Is maybe put trellis around them and screen the vent it’s self to prevent anything growing in there
GoddessOfBlueRidge
Candy Canes, of course.
aging-rhino
A few more and you’ve got a regulation full size Croquet Court.
rent1985
Paint it black and dress it up like a hand water pump. Put a bucket with flowers under it.
They also make tops that look like a bird house.
You can also get creative and try to make look like a tree. Get a fake Christmas tree and attach the branches to the pipe to help disguise it so it looks like a pine tree.
OlKingCoal1
Might not want to put a deck over your leech field or it won’t evaporate properly
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Cut to height and septic vent caps? Someone else will educate us both if I’m wrong. 😂
Dress them up like candy canes.
You can start by painting them green.
What part of the country is this? I have a leech field but do not have vent pipes.
Messing with them seems like a bad idea. No one wants unintended consequences that involve their sewage system.
Plant trees and paint them to resemble the trunks seems like an idea to me. Or plant shrubs that will swallow them up?
Shallow root Shrubs.
Question: What is a leech field? What problem does it solve? TIA
Vented rocks…
Those plastic rocks to cover pipes and water meter covers as decorative boulders…
Or make your own… YouTube it
I agree with putting red ribbon to make them candy canes in winter. Get skeletons with top hats and use them as canes for Halloween.
Disc golf course DIY
Have you ever seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang???
Surround them with some wood/vinyl panels that have room for airflow and then grow some vines of the them. It will look 100x better than these dune worms.
Turn them into 🦩
Use pipes for climbing roses? You would probably add more for them to climb on like trellis and such. Plant a few shrub roses in choice spots.. could be nice, yet if you’re trying not to have plants, then some privacy fence sections, with landscaping around them or not. Anyway, that’s my initial ideas.
Frisbee golf.
Paint them like candy canes for Christmas
no way they HAVE to be that tall. If ok, id cut them do the curved, bottom facing opening is 4 inches off the ground. then make mulch beds and landscape the areas with short shrubs, some ground cover etc.
Hollowed out totem poles or other sculptures.
Clematis
Paint them pink and stick a plastic flamingo beak on them – presto, lawn flamingos!
Putting green with obstacles?
Instantly thought of decking out the yard in permanent Xmas decor w/ painted candy canes to fit, but that might not be your style
Hollow out logs Hogans Heroes style
Dirty bird septic vent concealer
Large shrubs. Arborvitae. Would look nice. Put a few around each to hide them.
My father’s house has a similar, but shorter pipe. He put decorative well around it
cut them at ground level, but a valve box over them
Is maybe put trellis around them and screen the vent it’s self to prevent anything growing in there
Candy Canes, of course.
A few more and you’ve got a regulation full size Croquet Court.
Paint it black and dress it up like a hand water pump. Put a bucket with flowers under it.
They also make tops that look like a bird house.
You can also get creative and try to make look like a tree. Get a fake Christmas tree and attach the branches to the pipe to help disguise it so it looks like a pine tree.
Might not want to put a deck over your leech field or it won’t evaporate properly
https://www.infiltratorwater.com/products/vent-covers/createk-stone-cover/
Do they need to be that high? Did a tradesman not cut them down?
Add a winding stepstone path between them, paint them a metallic colour and hang lanterns from them