Grey water solutions.
Oct 23rd 2007, 8:40 pm
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Grey water solutions.
I've been pondering this for a while now, looking at all sorts of ideas. Having grown tired of using buckets out of collected shower water, and using the outlet hose on my washing machine to empty out willy nilly onto the grass. I've decided to put some dosh behind my efforts and invested in one of these.
Home water bowser... Should make things a tad easier and less time consuming. The thing that really sold it to me, it was available in the adjacent suburb for pick up. 400 bucks, bit cheaper than its clone the Gator, available at Mitre 10 around the country.
http://www.homewaterbowser.com.au/
Now the net being the net, and people being people, I bet I'm going to hear some better ideas now that I've put money behind my efforts in keeping my garden green. So share please, it will help others. I've been studying for a solution to this problem for quite a while now.
So how are you keeping your garden going this summer, especially those of you on severe water restrictions.
Home water bowser... Should make things a tad easier and less time consuming. The thing that really sold it to me, it was available in the adjacent suburb for pick up. 400 bucks, bit cheaper than its clone the Gator, available at Mitre 10 around the country.
http://www.homewaterbowser.com.au/
Now the net being the net, and people being people, I bet I'm going to hear some better ideas now that I've put money behind my efforts in keeping my garden green. So share please, it will help others. I've been studying for a solution to this problem for quite a while now.
So how are you keeping your garden going this summer, especially those of you on severe water restrictions.
Oct 23rd 2007, 9:06 pm
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Re: Grey water solutions.
I've been pondering this for a while now, looking at all sorts of ideas. Having grown tired of using buckets out of collected shower water, and using the outlet hose on my washing machine to empty out willy nilly onto the grass. I've decided to put some dosh behind my efforts and invested in one of these.
Home water bowser... Should make things a tad easier and less time consuming. The thing that really sold it to me, it was available in the adjacent suburb for pick up. 400 bucks, bit cheaper than its clone the Gator, available at Mitre 10 around the country.
http://www.homewaterbowser.com.au/
Now the net being the net, and people being people, I bet I'm going to hear some better ideas now that I've put money behind my efforts in keeping my garden green. So share please, it will help others. I've been studying for a solution to this problem for quite a while now.
So how are you keeping your garden going this summer, especially those of you on severe water restrictions.
Home water bowser... Should make things a tad easier and less time consuming. The thing that really sold it to me, it was available in the adjacent suburb for pick up. 400 bucks, bit cheaper than its clone the Gator, available at Mitre 10 around the country.
http://www.homewaterbowser.com.au/
Now the net being the net, and people being people, I bet I'm going to hear some better ideas now that I've put money behind my efforts in keeping my garden green. So share please, it will help others. I've been studying for a solution to this problem for quite a while now.
So how are you keeping your garden going this summer, especially those of you on severe water restrictions.
Oct 23rd 2007, 9:28 pm
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Re: Grey water solutions.
Had a quick browse and only came up with the following
http://www.enviro-friendly.com/grey-water-bowser.shtml For Qland, Aud 479 delivered, thing is these things are Made in Thomastown Melbourne.
Oct 23rd 2007, 10:11 pm
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Re: Grey water solutions.
Had a quick browse and only came up with the following
http://www.enviro-friendly.com/grey-water-bowser.shtml For Qland, Aud 479 delivered, thing is these things are Made in Thomastown Melbourne.
http://www.enviro-friendly.com/grey-water-bowser.shtml For Qland, Aud 479 delivered, thing is these things are Made in Thomastown Melbourne.
Giant wheely bin stolen from council, length of garden pipe into hole cut at bottom of bin... Pipe from source to fill...
Cost: $25
Oct 24th 2007, 12:52 am
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Re: Grey water solutions.
Great idea, I looked at that, and actually have the extra bin, My trouble was getting the bin high enough to let it gravity feed the whole garden, and then filling that bin at say 3 meters head height. Which would have been too much of a strain I reckon, on my Washing machine.
Oct 24th 2007, 12:54 am
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Re: Grey water solutions.
Great idea, I looked at that, and actually have the extra bin, My trouble was getting the bin high enough to let it gravity feed the whole garden, and then filling that bin at say 3 meters head height. Which would have been too much of a strain I reckon, on my Washing machine.
Oct 24th 2007, 12:57 am
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Re: Grey water solutions.
The best solution I have managed to come up with is to wait until it is really dark outside then proceed to plug your hose directly in to the mains. 
Oct 24th 2007, 1:01 am
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Re: Grey water solutions.
All our grey water goes into our grey water tank
It's got a pump thing in it and when the water gets up to a certain level it automatically around the garden. The joys of not being on mains sewerage thingy
It's got a pump thing in it and when the water gets up to a certain level it automatically around the garden. The joys of not being on mains sewerage thingy
Oct 24th 2007, 1:43 am
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Re: Grey water solutions.
or
Have an extremely long length of hose
Sneak round to next door, put your hose on their tap and water your garden every night for free
Have an extremely long length of hose
Sneak round to next door, put your hose on their tap and water your garden every night for free
Oct 24th 2007, 10:41 am
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Re: Grey water solutions.
Oct 24th 2007, 3:50 pm
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Re: Grey water solutions.
I've been pondering this for a while now, looking at all sorts of ideas. Having grown tired of using buckets out of collected shower water, and using the outlet hose on my washing machine to empty out willy nilly onto the grass. I've decided to put some dosh behind my efforts and invested in one of these.
Home water bowser... Should make things a tad easier and less time consuming. The thing that really sold it to me, it was available in the adjacent suburb for pick up. 400 bucks, bit cheaper than its clone the Gator, available at Mitre 10 around the country.
http://www.homewaterbowser.com.au/
Now the net being the net, and people being people, I bet I'm going to hear some better ideas now that I've put money behind my efforts in keeping my garden green. So share please, it will help others. I've been studying for a solution to this problem for quite a while now.
So how are you keeping your garden going this summer, especially those of you on severe water restrictions.
Home water bowser... Should make things a tad easier and less time consuming. The thing that really sold it to me, it was available in the adjacent suburb for pick up. 400 bucks, bit cheaper than its clone the Gator, available at Mitre 10 around the country.
http://www.homewaterbowser.com.au/
Now the net being the net, and people being people, I bet I'm going to hear some better ideas now that I've put money behind my efforts in keeping my garden green. So share please, it will help others. I've been studying for a solution to this problem for quite a while now.
So how are you keeping your garden going this summer, especially those of you on severe water restrictions.
I've been quite interested in this system called the Rainmate.
Link
Though not strictly a bespoke grey water system, it can be adapted to serve. It holds 200 L, and you can daisy chain them together to increase your storage capacity. Good if you decide that you need more. Sort of modular water storage., They come as a flat pack, and the last time I saw them for sale, they were $129 at Thrifty Link and on offer in Kmart for $99.
Just need to buy a fracking house first.
S
Oct 24th 2007, 4:46 pm
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Re: Grey water solutions.
I've been quite interested in this system called the Rainmate.
Link
Though not strictly a bespoke grey water system, it can be adapted to serve. It holds 200 L, and you can daisy chain them together to increase your storage capacity. Good if you decide that you need more. Sort of modular water storage., They come as a flat pack, and the last time I saw them for sale, they were $129 at Thrifty Link and on offer in Kmart for $99.
Just need to buy a fracking house first.
S
Link
Though not strictly a bespoke grey water system, it can be adapted to serve. It holds 200 L, and you can daisy chain them together to increase your storage capacity. Good if you decide that you need more. Sort of modular water storage., They come as a flat pack, and the last time I saw them for sale, they were $129 at Thrifty Link and on offer in Kmart for $99.
Just need to buy a fracking house first.
S
Thats a fantastic tip Swervo, one of the best solutions I've seen especially considering the price. If I dont have enough capacity for my very ambitious garden plans, those will be top of the list for rainwater collection, unless I need even more capacity. I'm creating a infinity border garden, tiered the lot, where the backgarden appears to have no boundaries. In fact I'm hoping to have a fine spray from rainwater tanks on the really hot Melbourne days. similar to the botanical gardens. Golden bamboo and lush tropical foilage aplenty, I do seem to have a mini tropical area in my backgarden, as my Bananas have proven.
Stuff the water saving trends, I'm going the opposite way
