Love what your doing. We are building a Strawbale home in Arizona we are doing grey water for the shower, sink and laundry. Also water catchment. We only get 9 inches of rain a year.
Background music its distracting but great video and information! Can you make any suggestions for me on adding a sand filter after my septic clorinator
Great information! I wish there was info on using kitchen sink water as well. The background music is really inappropriate. Background music under people speaking is the comic sans of UA-cam.
This is a super important question! I guess the simplest solution is to avoid clothes with synthetic/plastic materials and only use natural materials. Curious to know what the answer is, otherwise. I don't think microplastics can really be filtered out... then again, I don't really know.
You guys are lucky to even say "safe detergents" here in India even my parents aren't aware of any "safe detergents" maybe not many people could afford those eco friendly products. .. But we have traditional way to clean utensils and even toilets without using detergents. .. Mix lemon and tamarind instead of those chemical infested products they do the job... Great video 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Dear i am using grywater too for my garden . It is good idea . But i have one things that is bad for me . The smell is not good . How i can remove it ?
I just built a filter with a barrel filled with gravel, sand and charcoal. But the water doesn’t pass anywhere near as fast as needed for our kitchen water. And The grease is first filtered out by two grease traps. Any ideas?
Swap all of that out for a multi barreled system. First barrel have as a mulch basin, drainage gravel on the bottom, use Coco coir mulch in most of it, leaving room at the top to deal with surge of water. Put plants like taro in it with worms. This alone will filter out most of the crap, I haven't tried it with kitchen water though, as that's considered black water where I live. I am redoing my bio filter as I moved and have learned a bit from my first system I want to improve. I am using a lot less gravel as medium and trying to not use any sand, as sand cloggs up. The reason gravel is used is to provide biological surface area, which charcoal severely out competes. Charcoal helps with with chemicals like chlorine, where bone char can help with fluoride. I am trying to achieve floating wetlands in a barrel as more water can be held, surface area is provided by plant roots. Gravel displaces 2/3 the volume of water, as does other media, so trying to limit it compared with my first system. People like John Todd don't even use media. But I find a mulch column handy for filtering suds. One issue I see with many systems is that they don't utilize water pressure. That is they will have water trying to displace water that is at a higher pressure. There's a popular video on natural treatment that shows this bad example. It collects water from the top of one tank and has it entering the next tank and traveling downwards. I believe it should travel down then travel across, otherwise you retard the flow. Hopes this helps.
7th Generation uses sodium laurel sulfate. When sodium builds up in soil, plants lose the ability to take up nutrients. There’s more to being eco-friendly than mindless consumerism. Do your homework.
I don’t want to see people talking giving opinion, i want to see the system itself i don’t think this video fulfil my interest in knowing about the system
Hey hey, so sorry you’ve had trouble hearing. Unfortunately it’s really hard once something is edited and uploaded to take it down again, as you lose all the view count when you do so. But will keep it in mind for future! Thanks!
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My respects to John and Cameron. John is a pioneer in this!
We need more thoughtful people like them.
Love what your doing. We are building a Strawbale home in Arizona we are doing grey water for the shower, sink and laundry. Also water catchment. We only get 9 inches of rain a year.
Thou shallt not covet. J/K love to see people finding ways to conserve the resources we have
Amazing video. Nice water conservation technique. We need this more and more, as far as future water situation is concerned.
Thank you, great information. I particularly appreciated learning what soaps he used.
Thank you ❤️ My hubby needed this little push.
Background music its distracting but great video and information! Can you make any suggestions for me on adding a sand filter after my septic clorinator
I love the music.
Nice music but too loud. I couldn't catch some of the words and also found it distracting. Keep the music, just adjust the volume settings
Awesome video!!
Good info, really needed for report.
great info... you have given me so good ideas
Great information! I wish there was info on using kitchen sink water as well. The background music is really inappropriate.
Background music under people speaking is the comic sans of UA-cam.
You can connect your kitchen sink pipes to the same systems. The food residue nourishes the grasses and plants too.
Haha. Or what every movie ever does. But ok.
What about the microplastics from the washing machines?
This is a super important question! I guess the simplest solution is to avoid clothes with synthetic/plastic materials and only use natural materials. Curious to know what the answer is, otherwise. I don't think microplastics can really be filtered out... then again, I don't really know.
Needs a diagram showing how the system works.
You guys are lucky to even say "safe detergents" here in India even my parents aren't aware of any "safe detergents" maybe not many people could afford those eco friendly products. .. But we have traditional way to clean utensils and even toilets without using detergents. .. Mix lemon and tamarind instead of those chemical infested products they do the job... Great video 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Dear i am using grywater too for my garden . It is good idea . But i have one things that is bad for me . The smell is not good . How i can remove it ?
This is LA? Looks like Bali?
Was the close-up at 1.19 really necessary?!
Great channel, madam
Inspiring
Amazing thank u
I just built a filter with a barrel filled with gravel, sand and charcoal. But the water doesn’t pass anywhere near as fast as needed for our kitchen water. And The grease is first filtered out by two grease traps. Any ideas?
Swap all of that out for a multi barreled system. First barrel have as a mulch basin, drainage gravel on the bottom, use Coco coir mulch in most of it, leaving room at the top to deal with surge of water. Put plants like taro in it with worms. This alone will filter out most of the crap, I haven't tried it with kitchen water though, as that's considered black water where I live.
I am redoing my bio filter as I moved and have learned a bit from my first system I want to improve.
I am using a lot less gravel as medium and trying to not use any sand, as sand cloggs up. The reason gravel is used is to provide biological surface area, which charcoal severely out competes. Charcoal helps with with chemicals like chlorine, where bone char can help with fluoride.
I am trying to achieve floating wetlands in a barrel as more water can be held, surface area is provided by plant roots. Gravel displaces 2/3 the volume of water, as does other media, so trying to limit it compared with my first system.
People like John Todd don't even use media. But I find a mulch column handy for filtering suds.
One issue I see with many systems is that they don't utilize water pressure. That is they will have water trying to displace water that is at a higher pressure. There's a popular video on natural treatment that shows this bad example. It collects water from the top of one tank and has it entering the next tank and traveling downwards. I believe it should travel down then travel across, otherwise you retard the flow.
Hopes this helps.
Wow!
Would of really liked an indepth view on creating the system....there was about 5 seconds of showing the system and you can't make out what's going on
The 'background music' here is way too loud, it's really distracting. Great vid otherwise...
yah it's to loud.
Sorry you’re having trouble hearing! Will keep in mind for future.
7th Generation uses sodium laurel sulfate. When sodium builds up in soil, plants lose the ability to take up nutrients. There’s more to being eco-friendly than mindless consumerism. Do your homework.
Shut down the background music i wanna hear what the man is saying 😒
I am garden designer
I don’t want to see people talking giving opinion, i want to see the system itself i don’t think this video fulfil my interest in knowing about the system
Boring intro to much talk . Just cut to the chase you didn't win an Oscar
Shut down the background music i wanna hear what the man is saying 😒
Hey hey, so sorry you’ve had trouble hearing. Unfortunately it’s really hard once something is edited and uploaded to take it down again, as you lose all the view count when you do so. But will keep it in mind for future! Thanks!