Deal or no big deal/Laundry drainage?

[james stephens]

I'm thinking a "Soundness" deficiency that needs to rectified with repairs being made to ensure positive drainage away from foundation. A 3' x 10' area is decent size. It seems that heavy rains would cause water to settle up against the foundation as well.

 

[Mike Boyd]

I prefer using the gray water to water my back yard. My washing machine sits on the back porch just for that reason. It drains into a laundry tub, then there is a pvc pipe that runs out into the yard, at the end of the pvd pipe is the flexible hose that people use to drain swimnning pools (or at least there was until the javalina's ate it). Been doing that for over forty years, we have a huge mulberry tree and very tall elm tree that completely shades our backyard. Both trees have gotten so big because of the soap in the wash water. We move the swimming pool hose around from tree to tree with each load, so there is no standing water and no lint on the grass. But I am located in Graham county which doesn't have any objections anyway.

.......BUT THE CHLOROX in the water might be a killer.

 

[Jo Ann Meyer Stratton]

Hasn't hurt the grass or the trees in over forty years. The people we bought our home from in 1968 had been doing the same thing for the three years prior so no it has been 45 years altogether that has been done. And we have always had very healthy trees and grass. When the elm tree was planted 29 years ago it was about 18" tall, now it is about 50' tall. The mulberry tree, which was planted 45 years ago is about 30' tall and has the most delicious mulberries every spring. Which means our back porch floor turns purple for about a month because there are so many and we can't walk around the yard without steping on mulberries.

 

[CANative]

Chlorine dissipates rapidly. And the small amount put in the wash is probably gone by the time the gray water is pumped out. Meanwhile, the phosphates and other goodies still in the water are great for plants.