Having started setting up the household on a neglected dacha plot, I installed a cabinet with a sink in the kitchen. I hung a washbasin and placed a bucket underneath for drainage. This works for rural areas, but at least twice a day I had to take out the filled bucket and find a place to empty it. I started thinking about the simplest sewage system…
1, 2 – outlet sleeve housing; 3 – corrugated plastic sleeve; 4 – soil; 5 – gravel; 6 – nylon mesh
I purchased a corrugated plastic sleeve used for electrical wiring, selecting it by diameter to connect with the sink outlet. I cut a hole in the kitchen floor, passed the sleeve into the crawl space, then brought it outside and laid it further along a ditch dug “one spade deep” to the fence. Along the fence, I dug a trench 0.5 m deep. (It worked out well here that my plot in this location has a slight natural slope, so there were no problems with drainage through the pipe later.) After filling the bottom of the trench with a 10-cm layer of gravel, I laid part of the plastic sleeve on it, having previously punctured many holes in it with a 4-mm nail. I covered this part of the pipe with a nylon mesh (window mesh for mosquito protection). I poured more gravel into the trench to approximately half its depth, and filled it with soil. I left the end of the sleeve on the surface, plugging the outlet with a stopper and covering it with a housing made from a bucket: if necessary, the pipe can be flushed through this opening. And on the sink, I installed a mesh filter so that kitchen waste wouldn’t clog the drain. With a daily water consumption of one to two buckets, the sewage trench easily absorbs it.
1 – water canister; 2 – canister cap; 3 – short fitting; 4 – long fitting; 5 – pump; 6 – air supply hose; 7 – water hose; 8 – sink; 9 – faucet
The sewage issue was resolved, but since there was no centralized water supply on my plot and none was expected (we carry water from a well), it was time to think about something resembling a water supply. For this, I installed a 10-liter plastic canister under the sink and inserted two fittings into its cap. I connected one with a rubber hose to the faucet on the sink, and the other to a foot pump-“frog”. A few pumps with the foot, and water flows from the faucet – almost like in the city!
Alexander SLAVSKY
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