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Monika, you are right about kitchen sink water, probably a bit too much solids, though I would like to plumb in the dishwasher. Not too difficult - just pull the machine out, connect to a pipe, run pipe behind 3 metres of kitchen units, through two walls and down to the cellar. Eh voila ! I've been ...

Monika et al, Still peering at me waters. Got the toilet and the clothes washer plumbed in and all working fine. Now looking at grey water. I can drop from the washer straight in to the tank that serves the toilet and could, when the weather warms up. Eventually (+2 today) pump it out to the garden....

Interesting thread. I've always made stock from the carcass and frozen it for later use (made a good veg stew for lunch today. No weighing, just search for the odds in the frig, chop fine and boil for an hour - parsnip, turnip, celery, onion, garlic, cabbage, celeriac, carrot, stock, water, salt and...

Absinthe, (surely, I can't call you fairy) We live a bit north from you. Not far from Pontarlier, the ancestral home of the absinthe fairy. So a bit colder on average (we have known -30C when the bushes froze off at ground level) We had one main collecter outside butt of 500 litres which overflowed ...

Big Al, Red, Biological nasties. I hadn't bothered with a filter yet. Freeish rain water was originally planned just for the bog, so no worries about dead leaves and moss off the roof (there were a few and my wife said eeeugh, but I got away with saying it's just the toilet !) But you are right abou...

I bought (!) a new pump today, cost about £25, installed it and ran through a clothes wash. Seems to work ok. This one would pump a head to over 5 metres, so about 1/2 of an atmosphere, about 7psi, compared to the pond pump at 2psi. So, toilet plumbed in. Clothes washer plumbed in. Dishwasher to do....

The small pump didn't work. It pumped in ok when the electrovalve (?) opened but didn't seem to have enough pressure to close it again. I see it can only throw a jet up to 2m which I make a pressure of about 1/5 of an atmosphere. I'll try something a bit stronger.

pumpy, good idea about a pressurised tank but that would mean I would have to buy or scrounge one.

Catalan, I know I have an old pond-fountain pump somewhere out there. I'll try connecting it to the clothes washer which is sitting right next to the indoors water butts.

Thanks

As a newbie I posted on the recycling thread "freeish toilet water" When I checked the posted message I had been given the name of Margo (and a rather attractive photo) but I must confess (still like the photo though) that I am of the boyish persuasion. If you really need a name then "...

Not the splash-it-all-over stuff, more the pay-to-get-it-then-pay-to-get-rid-of-it type of water. We've been collecting rain water for years. Outside water butts adding up to about 2 cubic meters (2 000 litres, 220 gallons) but because of frosts we couldn't start collecting before the end of march a...