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Sunday 28 January 2018

Grey water treatment solution

Homemade grey water treatment solution:



Fully automated Grey water system. Cleans as much as 600 liters a day of grey water straight from the baths, showers, dish washer and washing machine. 

You won’t believe how much water you pay for and then pour straight down the drain. 

Be a good steward of whatever our Lord gives you and it will never run out in tough times.

Materials:
7 x 200 liter drums R400 each
1 x 100 liter drum ( can also be a 200)R300.00
1 x roll 25mm class 3 black plastic pipe - R10/m. Buy what you need.
2 x 3500 liter/h pond pumps R650.00 each
1 x 2500 liter/h pond pump R600.00
2 x float switches R500.00 each
8 x bags pool sand R 150 per bag
80kg crushed charcoal R 20/5kg
2 x lengths 40mm pvc pipe (price??)
10 x PVC Elbows
40mm drum flanges
Marine Silicon

Tools:
25mm and 40mm holesaws
Drilling machine

2 drums will need to be buried and one will need to be elevated for the grey water to gravity feed into the system.

The rest I’m sure you can figure for yourself.

I’ll post a video of the system and how it works. (I will update this when the video is posted on Youtube - or you can view it here https://www.facebook.com/rob.goodison.54/videos/1742535859101092/ )

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