Southern Man
DIY Hillbilly
Did you know that reclaimed water piping is supposed to be marked with a purple color?
That reminds me, a project my wife did (she is an architect) involved using reclaimed water being used to flush toilets. It stored this water in a fire pond outside. (It was kind of cool, you would go on a bridge over the pond to enter the building and there were fish in the pond too.) Anyway, the local inspector (a real difficult "local-yokle" kind of guy) and thought the toilets themselves must be changed out to purple colored toilet in order to meet code, at least "the way he read it"!
I think that inspector retired during the project, and the inspector who replaced him let the toilet color issue slide.
I am sure that lots of expensive equipment will be required to properly filter and treat the greywater... Toilet flush valve & jets with hair and soap scum going through them aren't going to be too happy!
I remember on this project my wife did, the basement of the place was a maze of very high tech, fancy (and surely, very very expensive; this was a government project after all!) of mechanical equipment required to treat that grey/reclaimed water, among other things.
The current code specifies blue or green. Purple is reserved for San Francisco, CA, Provincetown, MA, and Key West, FL.
What inspectors aren’t “local yokles� Typically they are contractors who didn't make the grade.
