'Grey' water your garden

Grey-water-valve

Divert bath and shower ( that’s ‘grey’) water onto the garden soil.

Get a valve that fits onto waste pipes with 41, 43 & 44.5mm outside diameter and then, when open, grey water is routed through a hosepipe onto your garden or into your water butt</a. When the valve is closed, the water flows as normal. It’s a permanent fitting with simple pull-cord operation.

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  1. spougej spougej
    Luton, GB , 25 May 2009

    My waste pipe isn’t external to be able to fit one of these valves, but I do use the bath water to water the garden, flush the loo, wash my hands etc

  2. catnapping catnapping
    GB , 07 Dec 2009

    In our village we have been fighting one of those really stupid planning applications where they build houses in such a way the rest of us get flooded because the runoff water has nowhere to go anymore…we lost – you can’t fight 2 jags – apparently somebody made him the UK climate change champion or some such position.
    Anyway:
    It got me thinking, why hasn’t legislation be introduced that says all new build houses must have grey water cisterns and garden water systems as standard? along with solar hot water…it just makes sense.

    Oh yeah, I tried to fit one of these but all the pipe work was boxed by the previous owners…AHHHHHH!!!
    I have been told I can’t rip it our unless there is a problem. And I do what she tells me.