I thought about this recently. Is there a case for a system like this to clean out waste on a regular basis? Thinking about things like cleaning wipes or minor build up over time. Essentially you'd store the grey water in a large tank and release it by a high flow solenoid valve maybe once per week. The tank would have overflow protection and traps would be used where needed.
>cleaning wipes or minor build up over time
I guess I'm having a slow day, but I've read your post 3 times and I have no idea what you want to do or how the thing even works.
>store grey water in a 20+ gallon tank
>release large amount of water into sewer weekly to clean out any buildup
Pretty much it
why. what does it accomplish that letting it go directly without the apparatus.
nothing in a normal house can release that much water that quickly, other than a tub if a house even has one
OK, final question then I'll leave you to your invention. What is in your pipes that this will clean out? Do you have much experience with plumbing and clearing blockages? Typically it's grease buildup. tree roots, or flushing the wrong things, like a washcloth or whatever. Running 20 gallons of water won't affect any of these.
Washing machine
Why?
Just don't flush wipes down your toilet.
I'm assuming you live up north somewhere where they have the 3" or 4" wye in the basement on the main stack just before it dives into the slab.
That wye is there as a cleanout to rod out the main drain/sewer line to the tap.
You could skip your rube Goldberg machine with your fancy check valves and solenoids and just buy a jetter bag to put into the cleanout. clean out.
Or buy a mytana drain machine/arm remover to occasionally snake the line at the cleanout. Because as the other anon mentioned most clogs on the main line require rodding.
So basically putting a septic tank in your basement?
>large tank
>20+ gallon
A typical sewer hookup is 4", which flows 240 gpm at minimal pressure. Anything sitting in that pipe isn't going to even notice you pissing 20 gallons down it at gravity head pressure.
You're adding multiple moving parts that need to be maintained, have vastly higher failure rates than just dumb pipe, and will do basically nothing to help. And if your pipes are somehow screwed up enough that you have main pipe clogs more than once every two decades, you need to fix the pipes, not deploy any sort of active mitigation system.
ay caramba amigo es verdad
kek
All it's missing is Al Capone's vault.
YES! That's why it looked familiar!
If you can divert greywater, use it to water your garden. Sewer is really only for shit and such. If you have chickens, they'll get the scraps before mice/rats show up.
kek