The Ban Beater

MSE_Martin

Now perhaps not the most MoneySaving purchase ever but The Ban Beater is a good way of re-using water and great for anyone who's living in a hose pipe ban area.

The gadget basically utilizes grey water (any water used from around the home) and siphons it off allowing you to use it to wash the car or water the garden.

Although not cheap it is good for the environment. What I want to know is have MoneySavers used this successfully and can it be found cheaper?

penrhyn

£40 for a syphon!!
Found this one for £19.99
http://www.droughtbuster.co.uk/hand_syphon_pump.htm?gclid=CPbGwp6MnIcCFRtJUAod4x_FvA

I've got one of those syphons with a brush on the end that will clean the car with a bucket of water, its called the Washmatic.
http://www.selkin.co.uk/site/site/home/home.asp?c=32&t=p&i=77

ailuro2

from the ban beater website:

Manufactured and distributed by an English company employing English Ingenuity

above a picture of the Union flag

Call me pedantic,but shouldn't they be calling themselves British.

I for one won't be buying one.My bath is not uphill from my garden so a siphon is no use to me.

IF,however it was, I'd submerge my length of hose in the bath, put a cork in the end while it was under water, dangle it out of the bathroom window,then go outside and remove the cork.

Just a bigger version of the siphon everyone uses when cleaning a fish tank;)
And a good excuse to open a bottle of wine (we need the cork!!) Cost-not forty pounds-just the bottle of wine for the cork.

For an easier to use version, we could use a couple of instant hose connections at each end to keep the hose filled with water and prevent having to restart the siphon every time. Although this raises the issue of "is this classed as storing grey water?"