Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Mar 19, 2011 11:33 am Hi all, We have just bought a block of land in the Perth hills and we will at some stage want to put in a grey water system for the garden and lawn. Just a few questions! 1. Is this something we can do ourselves? 2. I am assuming it's best to do this before we landscape? 3. Roughly how much would this cost? (it won't be a massive area, most of our l and will remain 'natural' it will just be the area left on the sandpad. Any more info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Re: Grey water system 2Mar 19, 2011 11:52 am Simple is the key! Any moving parts are possible failure points. I build a small creek line with sedgegrass, gravel, sands the creekline is a rammed earth channel that the componants above are in. Kind of like a maze only it all has 'fall' and eventually makes it to the fruit trees Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ That is how old it is I only had the crappy phone camera.. and it looks a lot different now with all that is growing in it. Basically it has 2 options for diversion left tank or right tank(full of blue metal[gravel]). As soon as you put a pump in there it becomes a maintenance issue. Earth worms do a huge amount of work to remove pathogens and add worm tea.... Plus the chooks have a great time scratching up bugs and worms. Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Grey water system 4Mar 19, 2011 12:45 pm I might have to take one... just looking for the camera. Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Grey water system 5Mar 19, 2011 12:58 pm Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ It is clear to see I have been away a bit lately... also that we are a 2 person family now and it is dry as a bone down here Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Grey water system 7Apr 05, 2011 1:49 am There is a fair bit on these systems being featured at Garden Week this week and weekend Re: Grey water system 8Apr 06, 2011 8:58 pm Would love to have gone Fu but we are moving this weekend Might have to go next year after house is built! the sun master is the solar heating to "warm" the water in the tank the S26 is your hot water system which will heat the water (25 degrees?) so with both turned on you… 2 12315 Once you know the basics, the rest is easy. Read my post in the thread linked below. viewtopic.php?p=1919271#p1919271 2 19497 It's all about wireless, self install now. The cost/benefit of wired setups for the house are no longer what they used to be. Lots of wireless options. Eufy, Arlo and… 2 9780 |