Washer water is a problem where ever you send it because of the large amount of lint. I use screen door material on an old dishwasher rack to filter gray water entering the pump drum. I place 3" chlorine tablets under the air gap flow.
With only two of us in the house, lint build up on the filter requires service twice a month. I just throw the screen away and put on another pre-cut piece. It's more trouble than I thought it would be. The alliterative is worse, all that lint going into the plant and field drain will cause big time trouble. I have in mind to create something for just the washer water but I don't have a good plan in my head yet. Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT was what about you, now Washer Lint > Very interesting. I have thought about doing something similar for years. > My basic research on the web suggested it > was a bad idea and that I would encounter all sorts of trouble with bad > things that would grow in the water unless > I filtered and chlorinated it etc. That sort of held me back. I planned to > pick up water from the showers and > re-cycle it to flush the toilets. I still think that if the storage tank > was small enough, it would re-cycle soon > enough not to be a problem. However the cost of setting the thing up has > deterred me as I don't want to do it and > then find out it does cause trouble. Our water is cheap enough here that > it likely wouldn't pay back for quite a > while and would be a fair amount of work. I would need a separate water > pressure system for the toilet feeds so > would have to have a pump etc. The rest is just basically pipe and time. I > thought to use one of the plastic sump > pump pits and bury it in the basement floor so it was out of the way. > Would need to be set up to drain if too much > shower water went in and have some sort of float valve to add fresh water > if it ran low. The filter is the major > obstacle. Would it be sufficient to just screen it somehow or would I need > to do something better? A swimming pool > filter might work but it gets complicated if one goes to far. Needs to be > simple. > > Randy _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
