Manual Bulb to Create DIY Syphon

[VanDiesel99]

Looking for a bit of DIY Advice... hope 'General Gassing' is the right place to ask

Most of my DIY relates to cars, but as I'm sure is the case for many of us, we turn our hands to anything....

I want to create a syphon, so that I can use the spent Bath Water to water our Garden and save a few bob on our water charges.

I can find stuff like this (pictured) easily on eBay and the likes, but its not gonna have the 'Diameter' to connect to a length of your common-or-garden Garden Hosepipe (which I think will be 15mm ID - I'll measure it of course)

Similarly, one of my spare 'Fuel Priming Bulbs (Diesel engines)' is also gonna be no good whatsoever

Can anyone suggest how to acquire or make a Manual Hand Priming 'Bulb' to suit the Garden Hose?

...having sorted that, a simple 'Tee piece' and some Hosepipe and I'll be away

[Mave]

Is your bath upstairs? I put a rainwater diverter into our grey water drain and ran it into a water butt. You can then connect a hosepipe to the water butt using a hoselock connector.

[Toltec]

You can get larger ones

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Python-Syphon-for-Gravel-...

I have one somewhere I used for the same sort of thing, had a divertor on the waste pipe for the washing machine to empty into a tub.

[OutInTheShed]

The alternative is a 'jiggle valve' or what the Germans call a 'vvanky pump'.
Basically a non return valve at the end of the hose, you jiggle it in the full container to start the syphon
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/312864277200?hash=item4...

I have a 12V submersible bilge pump, I've used that to start a syphon to drain a pond. From about £15 IIRC.

Bear in mind, that even with a water meter, you can buy silly amounts of water for the price of a small shiny toy.

We (her mostly) are a bit obsessive about collecting raiwater for the garden etc, now have 1000 litre 'IBC', holds £5 worth of water, cost more than that.
The flip side is that plants are not cheap so not watering them in a drought is silly.

[kevinf]

Another option using what you already have is to connect up the hose to the garden tap put the other end in the bath, open the garden tap for as long as it takes to purge out the air out of the hose, then turn off the tap remove the hose and it will siphon away itself

[Evoluzione]

Use whatever you already have to hand. Tube is flexible so all you need to do is put a convertor piece in between the hose and your pump. Once it's flowing pull it off.
Simple.

Personally i'd just suck on it.

[VanDiesel99]

Cheers everyone... I did try sucking on it, it just wouldn't go, too much length I guess... either that or I'm feeble, lol. Garden to upstairs bathroom so probably about 5metres

[talksthetorque]

This is all very expensive.
Buy a tap connector for the hose ( £3) and water the garden direct.
Cuts out the middleman.
Buy a flannel (£1.50) and fill the sink.

[mickyh7]

kevinf said:

Another option using what you already have is to connect up the hose to the garden tap put the other end in the bath, open the garden tap for as long as it takes to purge out the air out of the hose, then turn off the tap remove the hose and it will siphon away itself

This is the correct answer!

[Evoluzione]

mickyh7 said:

kevinf said:

Another option using what you already have is to connect up the hose to the garden tap put the other end in the bath, open the garden tap for as long as it takes to purge out the air out of the hose, then turn off the tap remove the hose and it will siphon away itself

This is the correct answer!

It is a good answer

If you can't suck on it to get it going your method is wrong, 5m is nothing.

[Miserablegit]

One of these should do it - you’ll need to prime quite a bit as I’m guessing the first 4 metres of the hose will be “uphill” from the bath to the window

An alternative is to get a sprinkler and a flannel

[biggiles]

I knew some people doing this 40 years ago, the old ideas always seem to come around! You shouldn't need any gadgets.

They either pulled a few feet of extra hose into the full bath, then put their finger over the end and pulled the (now full) section of hose over the windowsill. Done.

Or you can suck from the other end, but if there is a significant rise to the window sill it can be pretty hard.

[HughG]

Do the plants cope alright with soapy water?

[netherfield]

HughG said:

Do the plants cope alright with soapy water?

Yes as long a you don't pee in the bath.