Sounds like a good plan and I agree 100% that drilling the tank is a much safer and less risky route to take.
Now that we are in our new house I get to redo my drip system again and make it better
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Sounds like a good plan and I agree 100% that drilling the tank is a much safer and less risky route to take.
Now that we are in our new house I get to redo my drip system again and make it better
Sounds like a good plan and I agree 100% that drilling the tank is a much safer and less risky route to take.
Now that we are in our new house I get to redo my drip system again and make it better
I think that is what I'm going to do. I'm also going to put a 1/2" union ball check valve on the drain plumbing. This way the sink or dishwasher cannot backup into my tank.
I have never thought about a check valve on my drain never thought I would have a problem.
I just finally found the parts to tee into my basment sink drain going to make mine a 1.5 Inch pvc drain. Pictures will be up soon.
After visting Egon's house last weekend, he has inspired me to do a drip system for my tanks. I'm thinking about installing a whole house filter and then creating a mainfold with valves. I will probably run two separate drain lines because the tanks are spread out all over the house.
If I drip 10gph over 4 tanks, that 240g/day = 7200g/month, I think that equated to 10 ccf --I need to check my rates!
I live in Los Angeles and after checking out calwater, I have chloramines in addition to chlorine.
If I drip 10gph over 4 tanks, that 240g/day = 7200g/month, I think that equated to 10 ccf --I need to check my rates!
I live in Los Angeles and after checking out calwater, I have chloramines in addition to chlorine.
Yeah your going to need that filter. Your filter doesn't have to be super clean like a RO system, you just need to get the chloramines/chlorine out. RO systems dump 6X the water down the drain. It's a huge waste of water.
So it's about $32 per month for 10ccf of clean, chlorinated tap water. Not too bad. I have a feeling my bill might actually go down since I do about 500g of water per week and 25-50% of it is RO, which takes 6 gallons to make 1 gallon.
As for using waste water for planters, etc. Has any used those perforated hoses with a low flow to disperse water throughout?
What are people doing to maximize their reuse of water?
As for using waste water for planters, etc. Has any used those perforated hoses with a low flow to disperse water throughout?
What are people doing to maximize their reuse of water?
LMK when you have it set up... I'd like to come check it out and maybe pull the trigger on a system myself
Definitely, West!
Water in should be easy. Water out is another story.
I have a call in to a water filter company and am looking at a whole house filter that automatically "flushes" itself every 3 days. Should keep the carbon active for up to 5 years!
Water in should be easy. Water out is another story.
I have a call in to a water filter company and am looking at a whole house filter that automatically "flushes" itself every 3 days. Should keep the carbon active for up to 5 years!
Not sure if you looked at my yard drain. I have the drain going to my bushes/trees. It's a 1.5" line that points straight up and sits about 1" above the ground. To move water to other bushes/trees I stick a pipe in the drain making it sit about 6" above the ground, then I added a common hose line to the side of that drain at about 5" and run the hose to other bushes. The water level rises until it gets to the hose and then drains to another bush/tree. If I dump more water down the drain during gravel vac and so on the extra water overflows the 6" pipe. The advantage to this system is when I'm pushing more water through my drain for gravel vac or whatever, my drain never reaches capacity and overflows on my living room floor it just spills out the pipe under that first bush.
I think a perforated hose will clog/backup and you’re going to soak your living room. Go with at least a 1.5" drain if you can. Hindsight I wish I went with 2", it's not much bigger but really ads extra volume.
Why would you need extra volume? Power outages.
When all the pumps go out at the same time the sumps all fill at the same time and the trickle drain's in my sumps all drain at the same time. I have 4 trickle systems on my main 1.5" drain all with 1" lines dropping into it.
Thankfully I haven’t had a power outage in years, but it will happen and I need to plan for it
Ya I am doing a 2 inch drain Pipe to the sewer in my basement. Probably won't need that much but maybe possibly, so why not just to be sure make it that way. I wish I could have the water flow into the yard but water does not flow up hill unless its allot of force behind it. And I want the fail safe of having No pumps to do that. Water flows in and water flows out No pumps or anything need just a simple pressure regulator for the flow into the tank. I know most people drip into the main tank anyone drip into the sump? I am thinking of dripping near my heaters and chemical filter media in the sump. Problems seen might make heaters run more but also tank will still need to displace that cold water No matter where it drips in so it might not matter so much. I plan to drip 2gph into about 680ish gallons worth or tank. So 50% (336 gallons) water change weekly. About 17250 gallons a year worth under a whole 25.00 a year worth of water. Lol.
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