If you use a washing machine for clothes just cobble up the drain hose to a garden hose and let it rip. BUT put a check valve in the line to keep backflow from sucking all your seeds out out of the garden and into your panties as they spin.
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To use that you couldn't let the shower drain you would have to stand in the water while showering. She needs a direct line out from the drain.I have your answer. Get a submersible pump they are about 80 bucks and very easy to use. I used one when I needed to drain out my little fish pond. You probably want to have some sort of resovoir and treat the soapy water before putting on your plants.With a garden hose? Or some kind of flexible tubing? If I knew gravity would do it, I could make the water go outside into a barrel or 50 gallon trash can, scoop water for plants when needed. Like a rain catcher thing. But how to get it from the tub, over the tub, out the door, up the side of the trash can INTO the trash can?You need to just run the drain outside then. 10 feet isn't that far to go.It is level with the ground, not below the ground. Wish I had a clawfoot tub. Not due to height..but due to SIZE. I miss big bathtubs.So your tub is below ground level?
If you are going to drain "gray water" (from bath and dishes) directly outside, dig a French drain so that the water will filter through the gravel before flowing into the surface water table.Not over the tub. Under it. Just cut the sewer line and redirect it outside all by itself. You will want to plug the old line going to the sewer because the gas will make you puke. But for the tub just run it outside the house all by itself. Bury a 55 gallon drum outside and run the pipe there to fill it. Then you can either run other pipes to the garden itself or scoop out what you need. A drum would be good to have though so you can skim off the soap floating on the top and get rid of it.With a garden hose? Or some kind of flexible tubing? If I knew gravity would do it, I could make the water go outside into a barrel or 50 gallon trash can, scoop water for plants when needed. Like a rain catcher thing. But how to get it from the tub, over the tub, out the door, up the side of the trash can INTO the trash can?You need to just run the drain outside then. 10 feet isn't that far to go.It is level with the ground, not below the ground. Wish I had a clawfoot tub. Not due to height..but due to SIZE. I miss big bathtubs.So your tub is below ground level?
Rain barrels provide fresh water for the animals. Gray water is unacceptable for livestock consumption.Wouldnt a rain barrel be easier and accomplish the same
Scoop into larger bucket, kill yer backbone to get larger bucket outside? Pump like for a pond but it draws from the tub to outside and will it be powerful enough since the tubing has to go over the edge of the tub, snake along floor to outside? Turkey baster to get water INTO the hose then let gravity take over..hopefully?
How about taking a shower while standing in a brand new 50 gallon rubber or metal trash can? But then how do you get OUT of it? Or...just use plug in tub, take shower, then bail out the water into a bucket on rollers?
I want to save water and use it in my garden instead of it going down the drain. Any ideas? My bathtub is floor level (bottom part) and not far to outside..maybe 10 feet. I don't think the pump thing will work due to that. So I might hafta do the bail and haul thing. Unless someone comes up with a different brainstorm.
Some folks use their own poop as fertilizer. Not sure about that, but I don't think I would do it.
I'd like to have rain barrels here too but it doesn't rain enough in the summer to collect any and it would just get stagnant. I have the rain gutters that could flow into a trash can barrel thingy that we could put a spigot on I guess. But why bother with not enough rain to keep it filled? Unles I use the tub water to fill it. Maybe the washer water but then we have to be careful what kind of laundry detergent we use. Something to ponder muse on.