How to DIY Your Own Gray Water Septic
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- Looking for a simple way to safely infiltrate your gray water directly into the ground on your property? This is a detailed walk-through of the planning and installation of a small gray water septic system for use with tiny houses or RV's with composting toilets.
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00:00 - Intro
0:39 - What’s a Traditional Septic System?
1:41 - Gray Water vs. Black Water
2:32 - Why Use a Gray Water Septic?
3:49 - Is it Legal?
4:35 - How Does this Gray Water Septic Work?
6:26 - Supplies
7:13 - Step by Step Build
11:05 - Recap of System
13:02 - PDF Plans + Wrap Up
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As a Plumbing Contractor of 30 years I approve this system! ❤
Even though I already watched you guys build this, I love that you make these videos explaining how you did it step by step! This one, the solar panel hook up, and your pump house videos are a great way to help others trying to do the same thing! You guys are awesome, and it’s always a pleasure to see you! 😘❤️😁
Dang! You two have gotten so professional with your content while keeping it fun to watch. Good job and thanks for being you!
Educational, entertaining and well done with beautiful scenery and music! Good job, TSH! 💖💖💖
This was a great video to explain and show how to build a gray water disposal system. Thanks for this Longnecker family!
FYI if you use a curved pipe instead of a 90 by your source then there is never a chance of buildup at the 90 elbow. This works best for black water septics but a good idea for all septics. Just something I have found out after 40 years in construction.
Overall good job though, you guys are doing wonderful
That curved pipe is called a “sweep” or “long sweep”. I’m not a plumber, but I know they are required by code in certain situations when working with waste water pipe.
Those are pretty hard to come by out here, and like you said if it was black water would definitely recommend. Haven’t seen any change in water movement with the 90 even with a full flush so I think they’re ok for this specific situation. Adding grease, food, etc would definitely change though.
This video of how to set up a DIY gray water septic might come in handy one day when I find (or build) my cabin somewhere cool. Well done! This is all so feasible. 👍
We used a very similar system for our black water at our hunting camp. Worked great 👍
The family photo at 5:23 is the best!!! And, obvs, thanks for all the details about the systems you're installing, research you did, etc. It's super helpful and I tell people about your channel all the time in casual conversation, FWIW. 😎
Very clear communication n understanding why certain things are done. Thank you
Thank you for just being you!!
Stay Strong Stay Safe Stay Beautiful Most Of All Staying Ourselves ❤️💪
OMG I cant thank you enough for CLEAR directions and supplies list for this!! Been searching for ages!! Thank YOU!
Detailed and simple explanation - great job.
I’m using this video for an engineering class and you guys are helping so much! Thank you!
The work y’all are doing…..wow!!!!
Looking pretty good- might hit the exposed top of the cleanout with some spray paint. Give it a little more UV protection from the sun. I would bet the second chamber is not used- and the hole you dug with the rock in it would also act as a holding tank. Looks like your soil is pretty sandy. Other thought was plant a Tombstone’s Rose Tree .
Thank you for sharing this is practically the best method I've seen so far
Wow what an awesome video. You two do such a great job explaining and making it dummy free. Also noticed you are over 100K subs. WOW what a journey and thank you for all the great videos. Cheers From Vancouver Island BC Canada.
Love you guys, and all your informative videos!!!
as someone who enjoys digging, but lives on the east coast in a very clay area, i'm jealous of your soil texture for digging
We are lucky, most folks around here also have lots of very hard clay as well.
Great video! Very informative and clear. Thank you!
You guys are living my dream. Thankypu for making the videos. Im working towards this myself just trying to find safe property that i can leave a few weeks at a time and my stuff be safe is the biggest challenge so far. Thanks again for the videos
Thanks, that can definitely be a struggle for sure.
EXCELLENT!
I feal like I could go right out and make one!
wow, such a helpful video! thanks for sharing y’all. God bless
Thank you Ashley and Johnathan
You guys are truly Jacks and Janes of all trades!
I like the simple way you guys did this
Excellent video step by step, thanks for your video
Great design and methodological approach
I’ve just found your channel fabulous I’ve just bought some land and this is kind of what I’ve been looking for fantastic well done😊😊
Never mind. Just read your article. Thanks for that. Love your videos.
Thank you. I so need this and shared 💕
I bought a farm back in the 80's where they piped everything to a ravine some distance from the house. I put in a septic system.
This is a very good DIY video! Thank you.
YAY!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE FAMILY PHOTO !!
Bonjour la famille. many thanks for the Gray Water Septic vidéo. it's simple enough the construction, but that 5 foot by 7 foot hole is a bit daunting if you only have a shovel and pick. i, too, need a tractor 🙂 that being said, it's all good in the neighborhood. cheers
Great resource, thanks!
Very good video. Learn something everyday
This is great info! Thank you!
Final step: paint exposed pvc pipe. Great how to video !
Thanks for the information guys, God bless!🥰❤
Very interesting. Thank you!
Wahoo, all awesome information being shared.
Big effort but worth doing. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you! So good to know.
Great video! This should be quite easy to replicate
Cool. Beats the big grey cement tank we had to put in.
Great educational video. ‼️🦉💜👍
Great job. You could have used the 3” holes to add bushings or another coupler to the inside so the stand pipes aren’t just loose up top. Still works fine I’m sure.
Thank you for sharing.
I'd suggesting testing it/running it before you put the dirt and cover it all up.. that way you can see how it performs/make any adjustments before it's all covered
No shit pal. They’re making a how to video.
lol thanks for the obvious advice
Good one, thanks
This seems very similar to Keelings system from the travel trailer homsteading book, Nice to see it in practice.
Good system thanks
Thanks!!!
Interesting video.
Nice job!
Thanks.
Thank you so much...I think you did an awesome job of getting my unintelligent head to understand.
Amazing!
yeah, the kitchen sink water is unfortunately my issue with building in the EU, since not only do they count as black water here - which I can understand but is still hella annoying - but also many formerly accepted versions of black water septic tanks are no longer permitted, making it both financially and space-wise impossible to create an appropriate off grid system for it. And while avoiding black water by forgoing a flushing toilet is doable, kitchen sinks are indispensable. But I shall not despair and continue searching for a solution. I like your grey water system ^^
Outdoor kitchen sink for washing dishes only.
you need a mini treatment system to basically send semi clean water out
Clever family 😊
Awesome 👏🏼
I recommend a gully trap before the drums. Great Video.
Great video
Thank You✨
Great video - thank you for sharing! What did you have to do for your black water?
All black water should go through a traditional septic system permitted by your local county. We have a composting toilet in the Airstream.
That was interesting ❤
Good idea 💡💡💡💡
Interesting!!!😊❤
In the mountains of New Jersey my sister in law had both gray and black because city sewerages was not avalible.
The first ad on this video featured the song you used for the “solar shed” build- I thought I had clicked on an older video! 🤪
I like the rocks disguising you septic.
thanks
You guys definitely get a thumbs up. Wondering what was the total of cost for materials??
Thankyou your video really was informative & easy to soak in ! 😂🎉
I see what you did there 😂
We always have some big soda bottles around.
Just wonder if we can build some kind of grease trap and filter to turn shower room and kitchen graywater into irrigation water.
Water in the hole! Great how to TSH family! 🎉 “not the permitting police”. You funny things! 💕
Not to shabby guy's👍🤗❤
Thank you for sharing so very helpful,what part of the country do you live in, and would this system pass a inspection? my sister lives in north east part of Arizona she is just starting her little house project.
You all have made so much progress! Wow I have not seen your channel in a while! Nice progress.
Question, would you be able to let your goats clear your land via movable fences?
Nope, they don't want to eat the grass..
My grandparents ran their gray water out in the yard. I always hated mowing that part of the yard with a push mower.
Haha gross
Love the video and the step by step write up on your site. I'm new to this, so my question is, what's the purpose/reason for the vinyl vapor barrier over the gravel in main hole and on top of the leach line?
Thanks! To keep any moisture that may not drain fast enough below the surface. In winter any kind of water stays around a lot longer, and can saturate the ground, creating a lot of grossness. The first line of defense is building the system and the drainage large enough so it doesn't overwhelm the soil, but the vapor barrier is added insurance.
Power full I will copy it from Zimbabwe
Some places let you dump gray water other places consider it the same as black water check your local, county and state codes. It is very hard on your septic to dump a lot of detergent water into it.
That’s why they said to use bio cleaning products n
Did you guys do your own Black Water Septic? Or did you have one installed professionally? Would love to see a video like that for regular septic. Great video - thanks.
you could do something similar for black water as well. the systems work pretty much same way..
Just read the specific County Septic codes. They tell you what is legal
Excellent instructive video, for which thank you! Question: Assuming that in coming years you will get buildup of (non-toilet) sludge in the tanks, is there a DIY approach to siphoning the sludge out through the two cleanouts? What kind of pump might accomplish this task? Thanks in advance!
Since it's just true gray water there shouldn't be any sludge. If there was something inside I would guess the easiest thing to do would be to call a septic company to pump it.
@@TinyShinyHome I reckon you are right. In a pinch, a simple sump pump should work, as long as there's plenty of water in the tank. Pump from the bottom into a tank on a truck for disposal elsewhere. Thanks again!
I put mine in ...but had to do it by code....1000 gallon concrete tank beside schedule 40 pipe and 320 foot of leach line ....besides all the sand and number 2 rock....had to be transit dug..to get the right fall and depths....first time I put one in....contractor wanted 6 or 7 thousand to put in....
Yeah that’s a real septic :) ua-cam.com/video/oAsd7ScjGcs/v-deo.html
Happy gray watering!
Hi!! Love all your videos! I was wondering if it would be ok to ask what video editing software you guys use? Thanks so much!!
Thanks, we use Final Cut Pro.
@@TinyShinyHome thanks for response!
cool system, do you have to worry about winterizing the connection to the source above ground? thanks!
Nope, it should never have standing water in it.
Very cool!! I wonder what you were doing before you installed this. For solid waste, are you using composting system??
Yes compost toilet has always been in the Airstream
Permit Police 😂😂😂
Thank you for the great content!! 😊
You should plant one or more thirsty trees around your tanks. Fruit trees would be nice...
Kumquats love washing machine water. 73
Wait? How do you benefit from it? How do you reuse the water? Do you reuse it? Where does it goes after the whole process ? 🤔 Thank you!
One thing you need to consider. I had a house that had a gray water system for watering plants, and the main difference you notice from a regular house is you should avoid flushing wipes, tp, etc down the toilet, because the lack of bathwater etc seems to make it a lot easier to clog. I had a lot of clogging issues at that house and finally made everyone toss tp and stuff in a separate waste container I disposed of daily for the rest of the time I lived there.
Yeah, that’s a totally different thing - a true gray water septic should never have a toilet anywhere in the system.
@@TinyShinyHome it didn't have a toilet on the gray side. The black side that was hooked to a legit septic system was the part that was always clogged.
I'm on city water and sewersand I have a similar problem because I have low flush toilets and a backlog valve. I was told by the county and several plumbers to dump 5 gallons of water down each toilet every month. Kinda defeats the purpose but it works.
@@ericgeorgetruckgrilling it's kind of like those old loves diper commercials when it comes to "green, less is more, eco friendly, and saver" items you live and you learn then you get like me and and "I won't buy it unless it's like led vs incandescent light bulbs. The led lasts longer and is considerably brighter per watt of energy used. I don't believe going green should have to at the cost of paying more for something that doesn't even function as well as the standard item it is meant to replace, and refuse to buy it until it at least is more practical to use than the old standard. (P.S. I also hate that our government force feeds some of this green crap to us in things like automotive. You want me to switch cars make one that doesn't break down every 10 minutes due to your bs added regulation garbage, and planned obsolescence. Filling your pockets and the junkyard isn't saving the world....)
if it doesn't come out of a human body it shouldn't go into a septic system. I have a 4 bedroom house with a really old 600 gallon septic tank and we never flush anything other than human waste. Have it cleaned every 3 years and it has almost no solids. grease trap catches all the nasty stuff from our sink before it goes into my gray water system. My gray water goes into a 300 gallon IBC tote filled with 2b gravel with hundreds of holes drilled in it and 30 ft of leach line set in 7 tons of gravel.
Where I am in Texas you can basically do whatever you want with grey water.
Great video!!! How do you guys handle your poop?
Composting toilet.
So, I take it your kitchen sink water goes through the grey water septic since you have a composting toilet?