Slow Bio Sand Filtering - Grey water recycling using washing machine

[zib52zib52zib52]

Atleast your Plants dont need a rinse before cooking

[Frankygotti]

Cool guy!

[srgwarcock]

well you have broken many conventions iv read about grey water use, non the less this is an amazing way to live green and i find your method to be very interesting

[Moonessence1]

Hey ur pretty nifty! 

[cbriceno82]

Neat idea, you could also have enabled an outlet to be used in WCs

[hayworth111]

i like this ,you are great helping people like this .thanks; where did you get your pump ,what is the h\p and how much did it cost,

[urbpermaculture]

why would you do all the filtering to water your plants? Waste of resources/time. Rainwater is clean anyway and your washing machine water is fine for plants with greywater safe soaps. A little research would be helpful before posting this, I would hate to see other people doing this to water their plants.

Also, thats not a slow sand filter, thats what we call a rapid sand filter. The UN guidleines for slow sand depth is 1.5 meters, MINIMUM. Also, your flow rate is too high to be called slow.

[superbong69]

The power is YOURS!

[timlebsack]

Awesome. I'm gonna try something like this. Keep experimenting and improving. Don't let the haters get you down.

[jclabart]

nice job, but kind of sad to mix rain water with grey water :(

[shadowblack1987]

Won't take the chems out of the crap they put in bleach and detergents. Use overpriced bio/green cleaner.

By the time you use that stuff + elec bill from the pump, any money you think you saved, you didn't.

Nice wig though.

[howzadog]

Well done! I've thought of a similar system, utilising the water from showers and baths as well. But I would recommend a mesh filter of some kind to catch hair and other larger particles as it enters the first barrell. I wonder if some sort of bleach would keep your water cleaner.

[Pesadelo80]

Really Nice bro, to lvl up your filtering system you could put few moskitos net, distribute some layers of smalrocks,charcoal and your sand.

The deal is gather water from the rain, and spark the chain reaction.

[teachmebetter]

I like ur system. by the way where do u get the barrels and how much each 1 cost?i am cheap i don't want to spend whole lots of money to buy new barrels. if u can share the info. thanks

[mikee1911]

a true biosand filter has a biological film in the 1st inch or 2 of sand called "schmutzdecke". it contains good microorganisms that eat bad ones n its wat purifies the water. it takes 2 - 3+ weeks to develop by regularly pouring H20 thru the system. during this time (before the schmutzdecke has developed) its just a sediment filter n the H20 still needs to b purified by chemicals or boiling. havent built 1 yet but i researched it a bunch and will make 1 soon. watch this vid hb0xf3mRbJM

[reeding]

nice cape

[qsk2pc602]

let me think what do i wear?

[RevNTheogen]

@qsk2pc602 all the rest is being washed in the demo

[crisolsan]

PLEASE SPREAD THIS VIDEO

[SgtSnausages]

"Do the math".

Yeah. Why doncha:

1 wash/week * 40 gallons/wash *52 weeks/year 2080 gallons/year.

Where'd you learn arithmetic? "About 1200 gallons" is nowhere near 2080.

Just sayin' ...

[dw90242]

do you use environmental safe laundry soap? cause regular laundry detergent may need chemical treatment before releasing to environment.

[fireseed23]

Hey man have you heard of using activated charcoal as a layers in the filter? That might help...

[bassamry]

how much does it this system make in an hour?

[richeeeeeeeeeee]

About 10 gallons are filtered out per hour.

[eseguey007]

Smart...but whats with the wig?

[MockStoneLLC]

what wig?

[srgwarcock]

@eseguey007 to be honest this was the 6th greywater system video iv seen and then the only reason i watch this one was because i thought it would be interesting to see a girl with purple hair talk to me about greywater... boy was i thrown off