grey water from washing machine

morrowsmowers · #21 05/03/07, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by homebirtha

Great timing!! We are trying to figure how to move our washer upstairs, to free up kitchen space, and have been thinking a grey water system would be ideal. One question, do you have any kind of stack on the grey water system. (I think that's the right term.) The pipe that goes up through the roof to vent gasse so they don't back up into the house? Or is that not a worry with a washer, or because it's not connected to the septic?

No, you do not need a vent/stack on any system unless it is piped directly in. On your home sewage system it is designed to let air in so that the fluids will drain properly and to also vent out any sewage gases. Since you will only be running a hose or pipe from the washer to an open end a vent is not needed.

Ken in Glassboro, NJ

tamsam · #22 05/03/07, 05:13 PM

Mommow is right. If you don't use a Y to hook the washer up you will have to plug one hose or it will leak. sam

GoldCountryGal · #23 05/03/07, 05:25 PM

Thanks for letting me know about the Y valve or capping off the hot water inlet! I would not have thought of that - you all probably just saved me a big flood in the mud room.

Thanks!!!

BillHoo · #24 05/03/07, 05:27 PM

Ummm. Are you doing laundry with commercial laundry soaps/detergents?

By trying to reuse that water, you may be contaminating your groundwater and land with toxic stuff and phosphates that end up killing fish and wildlife.

Third-world countries use common laundry soap as blister agents - a poor man's chemical weapon that causes skin leisions and lungs and airways to blister.

Just a thought.