We have four 330litre water butts collecting off our greenhouse roof. We don’t have a lot of room by the house for watebutts but have squeezed in a couple of small 100litre butts and currently persuading OH that we could fit in another one.
We have also just restarted collecting our vegetable (washing and cooking) and dishwashing water (don’t have a dishwasher) as it’s already so dry - we always do this in the summer. We just store it in a couple of watering cans by the back door and once they are full it gets used - which is effectively once maybe twice a day.
Having read through the various water saving threads, am now thinking through logistics for savings the water we waste waiting for the hot to get hot enough - I don’t know why I didn’t think about saving it before, obvious when it’s pointed out 🙄
We haven’t got a bath but admire the ingenious solutions some of you employ, @Fire. But might pop a bucket in the shower and see how much that collects.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Butterfly, you will be shocked how much you collect,I have very quick showers, from 3 of us when our youngest daughter stayed in the summer of 2018,we filled a dustbin.we are stingy,do the if it's yellow,it stays put,we kept the plug in and I scooped the last little drop out with a cup
As a child my family collected the water from the bath and sink from the upstairs bathroom.
This grey water was used to water the veg patch and continued to do so for many many years....not the same water!
I always thought that every house had the same system and was surprised to find that this wasn't so.
Here in our cottage we can't do the same as the bathroom/shower room are on the ground floor but we have water butts in as many places as possible to collect the rain and run off from the roof.
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We have also just restarted collecting our vegetable (washing and cooking) and dishwashing water (don’t have a dishwasher) as it’s already so dry - we always do this in the summer. We just store it in a couple of watering cans by the back door and once they are full it gets used - which is effectively once maybe twice a day.
We haven’t got a bath but admire the ingenious solutions some of you employ, @Fire.
But might pop a bucket in the shower and see how much that collects.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham