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Hi I am building a small bungalow. It is sited near a sewer but no

near a water drainage pipe. I understand that i cannot let my wast water go into the sewer. Does anyone know what i can do to dispose o the water from my kitchen and shower. All help will be appreciated. Thanks Anniean

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annieann
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It will go to the same place as your storm water (the drainage of which I assume would be specified in the plans at the time of submitting them)

ask your BCO as regs vary from place to place

Tony

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TMC

I'm a little confused here. Your waste water i.e. from the bath, kitchen and toilet goes to sewer. Your surafce water - that is from the roof goes to a surface water sewer. That at least is the general principle. If you have a foul sewer nearby rather than a surface water sewer, then the reason that you may not be able to connect is that it is a pumped rising main rather than a gravity sewer. If you connected into that you'd soon know about it!

Could you provide a little more information? Are you out in the sticks? Do you have any neighbours? Are they on septic tanks?

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clot

... soakaway, usually.

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Andy Wade

I took the op to mean that foul water could go into the sewer but grey water could not

I assumed therefore that grey water would go with surface water and in the absence of storm drains this would be a soakaway

However if the sewer cannot be accessed at all then foul water and maybe grey water would go into a septic tank and surface water into a soakaway

Another option is that both surface and grey water could be recycled and that the plans for the bungalow would need to take this into account. This appears to be becoming policy for new builds in some council areas

Tony

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TMC

I know of no rule that distiunguishes between the two.

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The Natural Philosopher

I'm intrigued. I thought most only had two drains - foul water and a soakaway for rain water off the roof, etc. Are you suggesting kitchen and shower go to the soakaway?

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Dave Plowman (News)

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Neither do I and it does seem absurd. Surely that is what main drainage is for. However if the drain is to a septic tank then it does make sense to have another drain to a soakaway for the grey water that bypasses the septic tank.

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Roger

I took the op at face value 'there is a sewer'

told that waste water cannot go into it

the question was 'where can I dispose of water from kitchen and shower?'

My assumption was therefore that foul water would be going into the sewer but that there was an issue with grey water.

My suggestion was that the storm water drainage whatever that was to be was the only other place to put the grey water

The regs I was thinking about were those relating to not allowing storm water to be piped to the sewer and some council requirements e.g Ealing for recycling grey water in new build properties

In my house there is a separate storm water drainage system that is definitely not a soakaway I believe it is part of the storm drainage for the street drains

Tony

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TMC

I was thinking along the lines of some councils planning requirements for new build properties where washing machine and bath water be recycled for toilet flushing

Tony

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TMC

In the UK grey water goes in sewer as well

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zaax

What do you mean by "sewer", and "water drainage pipe"? The two problems you have are "surface water drainage" and "foul water drainage". Your kitchen, shower, and loos are foul water; the rain off your roof is surface water.

Surface water can be discharged into a suitable public drain, or a properly constructed soakaway, or a ditch/river (although you will need to obtain Environment Agency aproval for that).

Foul water can be discharged straight into a suitable public drain, or into a private treatment plant (or possibly a septic tank - I don't know if those are still allowed). The outflow from the treatment plant can then go into the soakaway/ditch/river as above.

The normal private treatment plant has a small electric motor turning bio-digester plates half in and half out of the water. These build up a layer of bacteria which digest the sewage. You can also use a reed- bed to do it completely without power.

If you are going green, the water from your shower at least can be fed back to flush your loos (unless you are going DEEP green, in which case your composting toilet won't need flushing).

I hope that helps.

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Martin Bonner

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