Hello everybody
I don't know if the following considerations will move you forward, but I will give them to you all the same:
I have been recycling my gray water for almost a year. My technique: I take the bath water from kids or ours (which are rarer) and I transfer by hand into a 20l container + 1 bucket which was there. The transfer is done by hand by lifting the cover of the tank and pulling on the mechanism. In fact my mechanism broke one day and I never repaired it, which allowed me this recovery.
What I note: the maneuver automates very well and is in no way binding. The week, we are at work (for those who have it) and the weekend, well, ... it's the weekend, it takes no time.
When guests are there, they either laugh at your fads and think that after all it's not so stupid and coughed. Either we re-open the tap and nothing is seen.
But what interests us most here is the quantity. Kids' bath, ie bubbling, can flush 3 to 5 times depending on the type of waste to be eliminated. An adult bath, a good 15aine knowing that I do not have enough to store everything. This means that if you take baths regularly, your water supply will have to take on incredible proportions (and yes, casually, even if you watch out, the water we use
).
In the case of showers: either you use a water saver and you are super careful and there, you have to store.
Bath + shower: it will still be necessary to provide a surplus of water after a certain time or are you sure to go soft?
Or provide a bypass to also throw a little in the sewer.
I forgot, I am in a rental apartment, family of 4 (2 adults, 3 years and 1 year).
In all cases, what comes back is
storage hygiene.
Hope to have helped you.
Gilles
Edit: sorry jonule, my post looks a little amateur after yours. Yep, seeing your diagrams, I withdraw what I just said. BUT I add qd same as rental and apartment, we can implement a lot of things. Well we can also improve my system, it's true.
