Recycling water/grey water

[DancingJax]

Hi again,
So I'm not sure where to put this, but, recycling water.
Does anyone re-use water from house to garden, or toilet flushing? How easy is it. What can I re-use and how?

[Nicos]

At the moment, we only recycle bath water.
I tend to use very little soap( wash hair in the sink instead) then syphon it through the window onto the flowers.
We have partly fitted a Y connector to the outlet pipe and hope to get a more permanent solution set up.

In summer I always use any ungreasy kitchen sink water...I can regularly be seen sploshing around the garden carrying a bowl of waste water

I'd love to have recycled water to flush the loo!

[Nicos]

Just even reading this interesting American piece....

https://greywateraction.org/greywater-reuse/

[Nicos]

This is the RHS info on it....

https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/garde...ing-grey-water

[roitelet]

I pump the washing machine in to a dustbin and use it on the flowers and also use non greasy washing up water on them too. Never use it on the veg it makes them taste soapy.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Just for a silly moment there I had visions of some one trying to recycle WC waste from the soil pipe....

[veggiechicken]

Me too, Potty. Liquid fertiliser

[Baldy]

that's the way it used to be - still is in many places... not North Devon mind...

[Bren In Pots]

In summer I always use any ungreasy kitchen sink water...I can regularly be seen sploshing around the garden carrying a bowl of waste water

I tip my dish wash water on the lawn and the few shrubs/flowers Ihave in my garden but that's about it for re-using water.

[veggiechicken]

I save the water that runs cold before it warms up (if you know what I mean) and this is used for seedlings and the chooks.
Rainwater in multiple water butts is ample for GH watering.
In the house I'm hoping to sell there is an underground water storage tank that holds rainwater from the roof which is pumped back into the house to flush the toilets. It was only possible to put this in place because there was major building work taking place.

[bikermike]

grey water - anyone using?

As the water shortage continues, I thought I might try a bit of grey water harvesting.

Current plan is pretty heath-robinson, but we'll see how it goes.

Use shower with plug in.
put pump in water, pump out via hosepipe out of window (slightly more complex as the bathroom is on the second floor) into waterbutt via filter (current plan an old pair of tights)

I'm not planning to store it (I expect I'll use it same day)

I'm not quite sure how I'm going to build the filter yet, but I have a collection of plastic plumbing bits, so I expect I'll be able to bodge something.

The real bodge is going to be getting the hose up to the bathroom - I think I'm going to have to use a very long piece of string...

[Runtpuppy]

The real bodge is going to be getting the hose up to the bathroom - I think I'm going to have to use a very long piece of string...

Wouldn't it be easier to take the hose up and throw one end out of the window? That's what I was planning to do, anyway!

[bikermike]

I thought about that, but I want to get it into a waterbutt, so either I need spectacularly good aim, or to then have to go downstairs and put it in the butt, which if done immediately post-shower may give rise to neighbour complaints...

What are you planning to do with your grey water?

[chris_m]

I thought about that, but I want to get it into a waterbutt, so either I need spectacularly good aim, or to then have to go downstairs and put it in the butt, which if done immediately post-shower may give rise to neighbour complaints...

The obvious (to me, at least) solution is to put the hose in place before the shower.

[Thelma Sanders]

Not yet, but I've started looking for my vacuum hand-pump thingy, which I bought last time we had a hosepipe ban. Once the pump has started the flow up over the windowledge, the water runs freely down the hose, into a blue drum in the back yard.