R/O waste water
 

hello all i am just wondering if any one uses there R/O waste water for anything it just seems like alot of water going to waste !!!! and does it actually have a higher content of impurity or is it absorbed...

Watering house plants & the garden.

Check out this thread.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41596

Laundry

If you have house plants or garden you can probably water them with it. I know one guy who threw it into his washing machine to do laundry.

Hard thing is where to plumb it so it's readily avail? I thought of the 45g drums outside, for garden water etc, But, what do you do in the winter time? The line/water would freeze. My RO system is pretty much automated to keep the top off tank full, usually make 20-30g of RO at a time.

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I water garden plants and trees with it mostly. How do you guys do your laundry with it? manually put it into the washer or is the line plumbed in somehow?

my ro/di unit is in the laundry room with my sump and salt water making tubs. I Just run the waste line right into the machine. (and I still manage forget about it and flood the room :redface: )

So all the folks running it into washing machines have conventional washers, that is, top loading?? I have a fairly new front loader and it uses very little water so I don't bother using the waste water that way. The washer would be full in about 15 minutes. Garden is where it all ends up now, but haven't figured out what to do in the winter. I have a couple of good sized drums to store it, but that won't be sufficient for the cold season.

The good old toilet tank is one of the bigger water users in most homes, but how to replenish that without either major plumbing work and/or manually filling it up?