recycling bathroom water into cistern

Wig

There's no harm in drinking rain water or well water, but then again farmers these days use loads of poisonous toxic chemicals so well water may not be what it used to be.. Some people filter rain water and pass it through UV light to "make it safe" for drinking.

In summer I sometimes have a cold dip in the rain water butt when I've been working and need to cool off. Archimedes would be proud.

chrissie55

alan99 wrote: »

Hello

I had a water meter recently installed . am definately saving money. Am with 3 Valleys and Thames Water for sewerage.

To save money further I recycle the (soapy) used water from the bathroom basin and place it ,via a bucket, in the toilet cistern so it refills,just after flushing, with the used water.

But I have my doubts; Can anyone help.
Heard somewhere that soap in the sewerage pipes could solidify and cause eventually a blockage. I tend to use liquid soap rather than solid but am still concerned.
Any comments appreciated.

Alan

~ I don't think u shld ever contaminate yr system with used water! - we bucket it from bath into loo or onto garden, also use my shower water for hand-wash when it's fairly clean!:D

Badger_Lady

Cardew wrote: »

Lot of effort to save a penny though!

Tee-hee! Save a penny to spend a penny! :rotfl:

Badger_Lady

It does strike me that there's a lot of water wasted that could easily be reused for other things, rather than going straight into the sewer.

For example, I haven't currently got a shower so I have a bath every day... I don't use soaps etc (except a little shampoo twice a week), so the water's pretty much clean afterwards. I'm always reluctant to pull the plug!

Are there any easy ways to save and reuse this water? Certainly the toilet seems the obvious one... Merlin, thanks for your tips but none of them help me - I'm all alone!

I'm on a waiting list to get a meter... I'm currently paying £800 a year through Wales Water :eek:

Ken68

Old thread, but still relevant. Can't believe your bill, Badger, horrendous. We ought to start a competition on how many times the same water can be used.

Badger_Lady

Oh yeah, I missed the dates!

I'm sure it can't be right - I'm paying more for standard water rates than for electric and gas combined

I've been phoning them all week but their "systems are down" every time

Ken68

Maybe the floods. :-))
You need to contact your local Consumers Council for Water. Put it in writing.

HugoSP

My inlaws lived near someone up north who devised a way to run his bath water on demand down to the garden. I think he had some sort of diverter valve that could switch the bath water from going into the soil stack to the garden.

Anyone looking to have free water in the toilets really should consider using rain water. There are ways of inserting decent soakaways that lend themselves to being able to supply water on demand to header tanks via a pump. This water could be used to supply toilets with a pressure/float switch arrangement to supply from the rising main in the event of there being no water in the soakaway.

Seakay

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Oh yeah, I missed the dates!

I'm sure it can't be right - I'm paying more for standard water rates than for electric and gas combined

I've been phoning them all week but their "systems are down" every time

Could be something on this site that might help you:

http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/aptrix/ofwat/publish.nsf/Content/how_are_water_charges_calculated

Badger_Lady

Seakay wrote: »

Could be something on this site that might help you:

http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/aptrix/ofwat/publish.nsf/Content/how_are_water_charges_calculated

Thanks - still doesn't tell me what I should be paying, though... just "contact your water authority" - the one with its systems down!!! :mad: