It is simply amazing how fragile and ephemeral human life is in a modern city. He is like a terminally ill patient whose life is artificially supported by a multitude of tubes, droppers and devices. Interrupt their work at least for a moment and the consequences are most sad. Special, extremely sophisticated services are dedicated to nursing a person inside his concrete dwelling. Any intermittent interruption in their work, for an apartment person, is very painful and simply dangerous in the sanitary sense. The work of these services is like that gopher. No one sees him, but he is. He’s an urban man, he’s used to not wondering where the necessary for his life comes from and where the waste goes.
In the village, far from sewers, water supply and heating mains, you have to take care of yourself, including the disposal of your waste. You have to do this thoughtfully, so as not to turn a picturesque corner near the forest into a landfill, and affordable small means. Below, we will talk about the discharge from the bath.
There are three types of household liquid waste. The first is from the toilet (flushed). Such drains are the most unpleasant. They should be disposed of in a special, more thorough manner so as not to proliferate infections and any pathogenic fauna around them. The second is kitchen sewage. With these a little easier. In such drains there is a lot of organic matter - fat and small particles of food penetrating through the drainage drain of the kitchen sink. If such drains are sent directly to an absorbent (filtering) well or trench, it will quickly silt up and stop absorbing water. An acceptable way to dispose of kitchen greasy drains is to defend them in a special well (septic tank). Organic matter from dirty water settles and settles to the bottom, where bacteria colonies are taken for it. The clarified water (top layer) is sent to an absorbent well (trench). A well with sludge and bacteria must be periodically cleaned of accumulated sludge (a good fertilizer, although it smells and is not floral). The last, most pleasing to the heart of the estate owner, category of drains is from own washing. From the shower or from the bath. Such waste water can be sent directly to the absorbent well.
In a separate category, we distinguish the waste water from an automatic washing machine.Often, the washing machine is located next to the living quarters and it is most convenient to discharge it into the general sewer (with a settling well). At the same time, we are very worried about the life of beneficial bacteria living in the well and decomposing organics. Special washing powder “eco” series are extremely expensive. As an economical solution to the dilemma - a separate drain for the washing machine in a small absorbent well and the use of children's washing powders. Drain well we tried to arrange as far away as possible spring and a flowing stream.
So - a well for absorbing water merging from the bath. We made it simplified, from an inexpensive and affordable material - car tires. Thick rubber is excellent and works for a very long time in such quality, in addition, we usefully utilize a dozen and a half spent tires.
What we needed for work
Marking tool - rope, pegs, long level (water). Theodolite and the ability to handle this device would be useful. To clear the area for work, we used a mower (trimmer). Garden tool set - rake, strong shovel, garden wheelbarrow. A small angle grinder with abrasive disks, an extension cord, ear muffs or ear plugs, and safety glasses. A screwdriver came in handy.
To business
The first thing is marking on the ground. Decided on a place for the future well. If possible, it should be below the floor of the bath, otherwise the well will have to be buried very deep to organize the slope. In addition, the place for the well must meet the requirements of SNiP 2.04.03-85 with a change No. 1 - “Sewerage. External networks and facilities. ”
Our bathhouse stands on a slope, and with a slope no difficulties arose. True, on the same side we also had a spring in a lowland. I had to place the absorbent well below the spring so that the drained water could in no way get into the spring. Even if filtered by a fair layer of porous soil.
Fortunately, in the right place was very sandy soil, in fact, almost clean sand. This greatly facilitated the soil work and gave the right to hope for a long work of the well.
A narrow trench was opened from the bathhouse to the absorbing well, a depth of a little less than a meter. The sewer pipe for outdoor installation (orange) was additionally insulated with several layers of non-thick roll insulation and laid at the bottom of the trench. Plastic pipes are connected inserted one into another. Sealing is carried out using a standard rubber cuff. To facilitate installation in hard-to-reach places, for example, at the bottom of a narrow trench, it is better to lubricate the rubber sleeve with any grease.
At the time of construction of the well, there were five tires from the truck. The height of them, stacked in a stack, one on top of the other, and set aside from the bottom surface of the buried pipe, served as a guide for the depth of the well.
The size of the pit was tried to be minimized as much as possible in order to reduce the amount of soil to be transported, however, it should be sized so as not to impede the manipulations inside with the shovel. Otherwise, it turns out a kind of intricate and very tedious "form" of Taijiquan.
At the bottom of the well, it does not hurt to lay a diffuser - a pillow made of gravel or fragments of concrete, brick. As an alternative, broken slate is used here. Large pieces, with some hooligan pleasure, were crushed with a hammer. In general, a fraction no larger than 50 cm was obtained. A layer of about 40 cm was obtained.
Large tires were stacked on top of the diffuser. When the tire lies horizontally, its inner lower part is a sort of ring cuvette. To prevent water from getting in these parts of the tires during the operation of the well, at the bottom, a small angle grinder with an abrasive disk, a number of cracks were cut.
The available tires are stacked in a pile, cut with slots down, a drain pipe from the bath, equipped with a standard tee at the end, is brought out over them. This made it possible not to fill the walls of the well, in the event of a possible clogging of the kink, the tee is easily cleaned from above with a long stick.
The pit was blocked from above by several pine logs and sheets of old slate.Then, the drain allowed to fully use the bath. Five years later, the logs rotted and the floor collapsed. A revision of the well revealed slipping soil, but the workspace remained clean. By this time, I got a few more tires, they equipped a reliable neck of the well.
In the side surface of a large, comparable to buried, tire, sawed an opening for a sewer pipe. Sawed a small angle grinder with a thin abrasive disc. You should certainly work in the open air, and preferably in windy weather - a lot of caustic smoke. Clothing for work is not the most festive one to choose - hot pieces of rubber fly.
A tire with a hole in its side is jammed onto a protruding drain pipe. Previously, I had to dig a few holes.
On this, the big tires are over. The remaining mouth of the well was folded from passenger tires auto. In fact, there is not much difference, the most important parameter here is the inner diameter of the neck. In any case, he does not allow to get inside.
A stack of passenger tires is wrapped in all kinds of plastic rubbish - pieces of an old banner, torn plastic wrap. This is a good application for such rubbish, the film will not allow the soil to wake up inside the well. Gradually, the height of the stack of tires brought to a level - slightly higher than the ground, dipped them. The last 3-4 tires do not hold well with the soil. He fastened them with screws. There were 4 self-tapping screws for each tire. Screw the tire to the previous one immediately after installation, otherwise it is not too convenient - deep. Screw the screw into the thick inner rim of the tire.
conclusions
The described drain for the bath is quite simple and quite functional. Nevertheless, in five years the well was somewhat silted up. Some photos show that recently drained water is standing in the well. Water just covers the pieces of slate at the bottom (diffuser). A cautious forecast - a large area of the sand walls of the well will allow him to safely work out, at least as many as. The reason for silting is the compact design of the bathhouse - the bath stove is heated “from the inside”, in the same place as the drain. As a result, despite the mesh at the entrance to the sewer (polyethylene propolis collector), quite a lot of small debris gets into the well with water.