Ro Water Getting Drained Away

[Neil]

When i use my merlin i have to hang the black piping out which is draining all the **** water out can i not use the **** water and put that into a holding tank at my house and then when i need more pure water i can pump that water back through the merlin rather than using tap water again? I put my tds meter on the **** water that was draining away and it was reading 110 , can i use this water again

 

[rcproperty]

You could do, but for the cost of water its not really worth the hassle.

 

[Neil]

You could do, but for the cost of water its not really worth the hassle.

filling up 500ltrs a day is a lot and the drain away water comes out really fast surely that will cost a lot of money

 

[chip]

As rc says. Plus every time you do that it'll make the membranes work a bit harder as the tds on the waste will be higher than the tap water.

 

[Neil]

It wouldnt make my membrane work harder because my tap reading is 270 and i tested the water that gets drained and thats reading 150 so its better i thought

 

[rcproperty]

It wouldnt make my membrane work harder because my tap reading is 270 and i tested the water that gets drained and thats reading 150 so its better i thought

my tap water its 456ppm and the waste water is 500somthing,

on my water meter with anglian water it only costs £1.20something or each 1000lts used!

 

[Neil]

Wow thats cheap mate

 

[rcproperty]

yer so for a 1000lts of water its costs less than £5 (as it uses 3000lts to produce 1000lt pure)

 

[chip]

Is that the standard rate or garden usage rate?

It wouldnt make my membrane work harder because my tap reading is 270 and i tested the water that gets drained and thats reading 150 so its better i thought

That seems unusual! By that standard if you recycled twice more it'd be zilch! I would have expected it to be more like 350??? Weird!

 

[dfw2020wc]

Do you guys that run these systems (static?) do you let the waste water go down your drain or can it be collected and used for gardens etc..?

 

[rcproperty]

Do you guys that run these systems (static?) do you let the waste water go down your drain or can it be collected and used for gardens etc..?

i have 3 x 220lt to collect the waste water to use elsewhere, but when they are full it just goes down the drain.

 

[Neil]

Mine goes down the drain mate i will do a vid when i next fill up to show you guys i will do it 2mora and show you lot the tap readings and waste reading