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Posted by on October 16, 2006, 1:31 pm
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:12:01 -0500, Crabshell
>I'd like to convert another part of the house into a laundry room.
>However, this room has no plumbing and sits on a slab foundation. It is on
>an exterior wall however. The hardest part of this is tapping into the
>sewer line since it's about 20 - 30 feet from the back of the house and who
>knows how deep. I also have a PVC pipe sprinkler system that I'd have to
>navigate around.
>
>A plumber suggested creating a "gray water" drainage system in the
>flowerbed behind the back of the house. The laundry water would drain
>directly into this, saving a considerable cost of tapping into the sewer
>line.
>
>Are there any opinions out there regarding this kind of solution? Is there
>an easy way to harvest the gray water and use it to sprinkle the lawn vs.
>wasting it underground? Would that require a holding tank of some sort?
I have been pumpuing my washer out on the ground for 20 years. The
mango tree loves it, as do the bananas. If you want to put in a drain
tank you can use a 30 gallon plastic drum, buried. Cut the bottom out
of the drum and set it in a bed of gravel. Route the washer water into
the top of the drum.A lot really depends on how well your soil
"perks".
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