I bought a greywater hose last week to put the wastewater from the washing machine onto the backyard grass (it doesn't fit the smooth, even, weedless, well-mown definition of 'lawn').
The good news: the grass (and weeds) are thrilled, and abandoning brownness with every load of washing.
The other news: my ability to have laundry/water accidents continues. I discovered, to the unamusement of the MOMD, that:
- if you coil the hose up inside the laundry so as to shut the door
- and then do a load of washing the next day
- without putting the end of the hose outside on the grass,
- the laundry/bathroom will flood
- everything on the floor will get wet (dirty clothes don't mind a pre-wash rinse, do they?)
- the lip of metal on the doorstep will prevent any water less than 1/2 inch deep escaping harmlessly into the backyard
- the water has nowhere to go due to the resounding absence of any kind of drainhole in the floor (what were those renovators thinking????)
- the water will therefore have no choice but to trickle around the edges of the sheet lino
- travel through the flooring materials underneath
- and leak onto the path outside (east)
- and into the shed behind (south)
- and probably under the other wall (west) but we didn't look
- and under the floor of the 3rd bedroom (north), but that's just a guess.
- To get rid of it you can try soaking it up and squeezing it out of lots of towels (MOMD)
- or you can view this as an opportunity to mop the floor really well, and get a headstart on the washing (me).
:)
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