Grey Water Pumps
What Is a Grey Water Pump?
A grey water pump is essentially a fitting within a grey water recycling system that pumps greywater from different sources, such as your bath, laundry sink, washing machine, dishwasher, and various other sanitary fixtures like urinals, kitchen sinks, and showers and allows you to use that grey water as part of your irrigation system.
Grey water pumps are critical to your property’s plumbing system. Unlike a sump pump, which is designed to pump accumulated groundwater runoff from your basement before it floods your underground space, a grey water pump is designed to eliminate grey water safely and effectively.
Grey water pumps are a gravity-based system. They utilize gravity fall to discharge wastewater efficiently, allowing them to pump the effluent upward to a certain height and/or horizontally with minimal power consumption.
From Laundry to Landscape: What’s the Difference with Greywater Systems?
A grey water pump should never be used as a sump pump; it’s exclusively used to pump grey water and wastewater away from your home, whereas a sump pump is only designed to remove excess groundwater. A grey water pump can help conserve fresh water, lower your water bill, and handle grey water from washing machines and various sanitary fixtures such as urinals, bathtubs, and sinks. It lowers the burden on your home’s septic system.
A grey water pump is essential to all good greywater systems. The Saniflo Saniswift is perfect for your basements, cellars, or wherever extra fixtures may be utilized in your property.
The Saniflo Saniswift is a compact and streamlined grey water pump ideal for small spaces. It can also be used in closets, basement apartments, or other additional spaces. The Saniflo Saniswift pump is a system that can pump greywater, filtering out food particles and other refuse from dishwashers, sinks, urinals, toilets, and other grey water sources to mulch basins or storage tanks.
The normal operating cycle of the Saniflo Saniswift grey water pump is typically between 2 to 10 seconds, depending on the discharge pipe run configuration, which impacts its power consumption, ability to conserve water, and efficiency.
The Saniflo Saniswift grey water system pumps effluent up to 14 feet upwards and 140 feet horizontally, allowing you to use greywater from laundry to landscape if connected with an irrigation system.
How Does a Grey Water System Work with a Discharge Pipe Run Configuration?
Unlike a sump pump, which merely removes excess groundwater from a small purpose-built pit set in the lowest part of your home, grey water pumps remove greywater, human waste, and wastewater. However, like a sump pump, this piece of equipment also pumps the effluent upward into your property’s sewage line or cesspool.
Maximize Water Usage and Power Consumption with Saniflo Grey Water Pumps
If you want to utilize greywater in your residential and commercial property, you should invest in a quality greywater system. For household plumbing, grey water pumps from Saniflo are the ideal equipment to remove wastewater from your kitchen sink, dishwasher, and bath, pumping it out of your plumbing system and into a storage tank. The power consumption of Saniflo grey water pumps is minimal, making them an energy-efficient choice.
At Saniflo, we supply high-grade grey water pumps necessary for your recycling systems. Our pumps feature an oil-filled enclosure that seals the motor, ensuring durability and efficient operation by minimizing moving parts.
We can help you find the ideal grey water pump to match your pump system requirements. Our company supplies grey water pumping systems ideal for small houses and large commercial properties.
Our Grey Water Pumps
Do you want to install a full kitchen or laundry room in your basement, attic, or home extension? With the help of a top-notch grey water pumping system, doing so won't be a problem.
You won’t need to do expensive work to reposition pipes, as you can have an independent wet area wherever you want. Just ensure you connect to a proper vent system to comply with plumbing codes and local regulations to ensure efficient operation.
For an economical addition of a full kitchen, laundry, wet bar, or just an extra sink, consider using the SaniSWIFT drain pump system. It is designed to handle multiple fixtures and offers reliable performance.
For a heavy-duty option in a high-traffic kitchen or laundry room, use our more powerful SaniVITE.
For demanding commercial applications, use our commercial-grade Sanicom 1.
Of all the grey water pumps available in the market, Saniflo offers a collection of convenient and easy-to-use models for your home and/or office.
The Benefit of an SFA Grey Water Unit for Laundry Sink
A traditional pump relies on gravitational drainage, which limits the places you can put it. With an SFA pump, conventional gravitational drainage is not a requirement, and it can pump the effluent upward to a specific height, allowing you to add a new kitchen, bathroom, or laundry room virtually anywhere.
Some pumps, such as the SaniCOM 1, can push nearly boiling water (up to 194 degrees) up to 25 ft vertically and 250 ft horizontally. These pumps require a 1/4" per foot gravity flow towards the pump unit when adding a shower, emphasizing the importance of gravity in the flow of wastewater.
What’s more, these pumps are easy to install, lower water consumption, and remove wastewater from a bathroom, kitchen, or laundry room. Installing these pumps doesn’t require significant construction and can be a DIY project you can complete in a week or less.
If you want to learn more about SFA pumps, greywater systems, or find the perfect model for your home or business, contact our team today! We’ll be happy to assist you. Additionally, it is highly recommended that your grey water pumping system be connected to a ground fault interrupter (GFI) circuit to ensure electrical safety and compliance with standards.
