[?] Looking for a Waste pipe 'diverter'.

[David Chapman]

Hi,

I'm hoping that someone in this NG can help me.

I'm looking for a 'two-way diverter tap' that I can put in the outside

2" plastic pipe that carries waste water from our bath and washbasin to the outside drain. I'd like to be able to rearrange the pipework so that I can divert waste water into a close-by water-butt until it is full, then be able to 'switch' the outlet back so that any further waste water goes down the drain as it did originally.

Does such a 'diverter-tap' exist and, if so, where can I get one?

TIA - Dave.

David C.Chapman - Chartered Engineer. FIEE. ( [e-mail])

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[Mary Fisher]

They do but I wouldn't advise storing bath or hand basin water, it gets very smelly very quickly.

Mary

[Don Spumey]

It's called a 'greywater diverter valve'

Don.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Agreed.

It might be slightly better to have the water-butt simply overflow into the original drain, as that will keep a flow going through the water butt even when full and skim off the surface scum. Do not route kitchen sink waste into it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

So does any water in a butt, even fresh rainwater.

Great breeding place for mosquito larvae as well.

I have juts as such a system that tapes into a drain downpipe..it divertst the water till the butt is full. Any builders merchant stocks such, though you may need to go to a large bore pipe.

Alternatively, just connect the wastes to the tank, and then have the tank overflow go into the drains.

Of course, you need to make sure the tank level in not above the level of your bath water etc..or you will end up with a bath that won't empty.

[Andrew Gabriel]

I've never had my rainwater butt go smelly, even when not taking any water from it during long hot periods.

Should have a lid, and nowadays, it has to be a childproof one. (I guess some child must have drowned in a water butt in the last few years?)

That's what I have for rainwater. Mine has a crude gauze filter, which may be why my butt never smells;-).

[Mary Fisher]

Nor have I. In an open container algae grow but they don't make it smelly.

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:-)

Well, we don't have a filter at the delivery end but Spouse made a domed wire cap for the gutter end. I'd be prepared to drink the water from our roofs, in fact I have done. I wouldn't like to drink the soapy, bubble-bathy, shed skinny and general mucky and sludgy liquid from my bath - even before it had been stored!

Mary

Mary