Greywater installers course
Greywater Action's 5 day "Greywater design and installation course for installers"
Day 1
Graduates
- Integrated design and ecological sanitation
- Greywater overview:
- Greywater guidelines
- Low tech and high tech greywater options
- Environmental and public health concerns
- Pros, cons, and costs of common systems
- Landscape considerations
- Products and greywater
- Laundry greywater systems:
Building a laundry to landscape system
- Laundry drum
- Laundry to landscape
Day 2
- Codes, regulations and permits.
Branched drain greywater system
- Requirements for code compliant systems in CA
- Laundry to landscape construction
- Attaching a 3-way valve
- Connecting greywater irrigation tubing
- Mulch basin construction
- Plumbing basics
- Drainage plumbing
- 3-way valves- how to connect them and change their orientation
- Materials and fittings
Day 3
Preparing 3-way valves
Greywater plumbingSoils and percolations
- Finding soil type
- Conducting a soil percolation test
- Irrigation
- How to calculate plant water requirements
- Beneficial plants
- Branched drain construction
- Client interview and site assessment
Day 4
- Greywater system design
- Common errors and system failures
- Manufactured systems and emerging technologies
- Constructed wetlands
- Pumped greywater systems
- Drum with effluent pump
- Sand filter to drip irrigation
Making a site plan
- How to install an actuator (electronic motor)
- Greywater material ordering
- Group presentations of system design
- Exam (optional)
Day 5
