OilMan at His Best

The continuing drought leads us to believe that we might be in this for the long run, so we are contemplating putting in a greywater system in which water from the washing machine, shower skis, etc are captured before they enter the septic system and stored in a tank which is connected to the irrigation system. In order to be fully prepared, OilMan as decided that the needs to know the exact flow rate from shower head, sink faucets, washing machine and dishwasher.

He disappeared into the bathroom with a huge galvanized tub which he used to capture the water from the shower. (Most people would then open the bathroom window and throw the water on the plants, but not OilMan. I captured him in the kitchen dumping wine bottles (750litres) full of water into a bucket from the hardware store. (We have dozens of these buckets filled with dirt, weeds, tools and other detritus scattered all over the property, but this one required special treatment…careful marking of the one and two gallon marks with a sharpie.)

When I asked him what he was doing, he said he had to determine the exact capacity of the bucket. I gave up when I gazed around and saw the huge galvanized tub full of water in the entry hall, the hardware store bucket in the sink and a page of calculations, a pencil and a calculator on the kitchen counter. Since I am not a process engineer and would have approached the project in a rather different way, I absented myself from the whole project. 

Spreadsheets are inevitable.