Greywater, a tutorial of how to set it uo in your home...

[Tussiemussies]

http://greywateraction.org/content/laundry-landscape-0

[jennipurrr]

Interesting! I've always wondered if it was extremely difficult to use greywater.

[Tussiemussies]

I know I never understood how it could be set up...

[Gregg]

It's really simple. We have the laundry heading out the back and the master shower to the front. Our sub-soil has a lot of clay so we are building a gravel swale in back and a gravel filled trench in front to make sure the water drains easily and is accessible to plants.

[Float On]

When we were on a septic tank we set up a graywater line because if I was running the dishwasher, doing laundry, and someone was taking a shower water would seep up thru the ground below the septic. It was easy to set up and I wish we'd left it that way when we went on county sewer.

[catherine]

Thanks for this! (just catching up on my SLN reading)

So, I've spoken with DH about installing a greywater flow from my washing machine, which seems like it would be really pretty easy to do, but he is telling me we'd need a pump (the washing machine is in the basement, and the pipe would probably have to extend across the basement ceiling (it's an unfinished basement--I don't care about the aesthetics of it) and then out from there.

Any thoughts on that?