Grey water

[oddoneout]

....good for all of you....just imagine [if you like] all the water that goes away as you wait for the hot water to come through (mine has a long way to come from cellar at back to 2nd floor bathroom at the front....)....and I am sure some people draw the hot water and then draw cold to required temp'....Yes, Truss water a possible term....but, what a about all the [grant] Shapp that keeps accumulating {I'm told you shouldn't put it on the compost heap....}....

I took steps to deal with this a couple of years ago, prompted by waste of fuel on heating rather than drought. I realised that the quantity of cold water that got to the bath before the hot started coming through all had to be warmed by the hot water before an overall satisfactory temperature was reached, meaning that I was using more water and more gas than necessary and it was taking much longer, so I took to running off the cold until it started to feel less than cold, and then running my couple of inches for ablutions. During the winter the unwanted part runs down the plughole unless I need to clean car windscreeen and lights or similar chores but once the weather warms up the bucket comes out and I start to transfer it to the waterbutt beside the kitchen door.

[Dave2002]

Dilution, as with any fertiliser, or compost activator.

Sort of Rab C Nesbitt en suite for gardeners - a watering can .....

Coat fetched - except that it's too hot.

[groovydavidii]

RE: Message 1.

i use combination tap water and butt rain-water in garden, duplicated on allotment; incidentally, bussing along the A326 today saw sad sight of horse chestnuts with evident signs of canker, remember shallow-rooted birch have tremendous root spread., so keep your silver birch in container.

[french frank]

RE: Message 1.

i use combination tap water and butt rain-water in garden, duplicated on allotment; incidentally, bussing along the A326 today saw sad sight of horse chestnuts with evident signs of canker, remember shallow-rooted birch have tremendous root spread., so keep your silver birch in container.

I'd love a butt but there's no suitable place. Where the rainwater can be diverted there's no place for a butt and where there's a place for a butt there's no rainwater (except when it rains directly into the butt, rather than off gutters.

The silver birch is indeed in a container, now grown to about 3m tall (it was about 2cms) but I'm keeping it pruned at that height. I'm trying not to use any 'white' water straight from the tap.

[ardcarp]

My wife is the gardener, but I do know that yellow water is to be avoided

I seem to remember a certain GQT veteran panel member used to advocate a nightly leak on the leeks. Never tried it myself. Honestly.....

[cloughie]

I seem to remember a certain GQT veteran panel member used to advocate a nightly leak on the leeks. Never tried it myself. Honestly.....

High in nitrogen And a good activator for compost heaps!

[Cockney Sparrow]

I seem to remember a certain GQT veteran panel member used to advocate a nightly leak on the leeks. Never tried it myself. Honestly.....

And according to Bob, it needs to be diluted even then (IIRC 1 to 9 of water).

[Serial_Apologist]

High in nitrogen And a good activator for compost heaps!

Well, it is passable...

[ahinton]

Well, it is passable...

Or was passable, perhaps. Isn't grey water part of what's now being discharged in vast quantities on the beaches of UK courtesy of our delightful water/sewerage service businesses? As Churchill didn't quite say, "we shall sh*te them on the beaches"...

As you were...

[ardcarp]

And according to Bob, it needs to be diluted even then (IIRC 1 to 9 of water).

Intriguing mental picture of Mr Flowerdew measuring it all out!

[oddoneout]

Or was passable, perhaps. Isn't grey water part of what's now being discharged in vast quantities on the beaches of UK courtesy of our delightful water/sewerage service businesses? As Churchill didn't quite say, "we shall sh*te them on the beaches"...

As you were...

And not the part that's causing the problems. It has given cartoonist rich pickings (or should that be a fertile imagination?)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/aug/22/stephen-lillie-on-the-uks-sewage-strewn-seaside-cartoon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/aug/17/steve-bell-on-the-ofwat-bosss-defence-of-water-companies-cartoon