HOW TO INSTALL A DIY GRAY WATER SEPTIC SYSTEM For A Cabin Or Homestead. BUILD YOUR OWN AT LOW COST
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How to install a gray water septic system for a cabin or homestead. This is a very low cost system that you can build yourself. Using recycled plastic drums in place of expensive bio chambers, this DIY septic system will save you a lot of money.
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You almost got me, I was fixing to post "where's the bubble-foil??" You did not disappoint. Lookin' good there Kemosabe.
So glad to see you!!!
Fantastic ! I love it when you do a project with the infamous bubble foil . It just puts the icing on the cake 😂
Merry Christmas to you and Lori
Love the idea Boss! We will install one with our new cabin.
Whatever you put together works! Blessed holidays, stay warm and keep the bubble foil coming😊
Bubble fool and a “commercial break”! I love it!
Gotta love the barter system! Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year! 😉
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes to this project and long live the bubble foil! Stay strong, healthy and happy! Marry Christmas my friend!
Merry Christmas thanks for sharing God bless until next time stay safe and warm
Thank you for this updated/new video. I will be hopefully installing this system at our cabin in 2023. I love the simplicity of it. It will probably outlive us since we don't live there full-time. Hope you are doing well and are having a Merry Christmas!!
Nice work. Merry Christmas!
Last summer i made a gray water septic like the first one you made it has been working great for us. Great video as usual Boss!
OMG! I love the bubble foil inclusion! Yeeeeeeessssssssss!
After all these years I never get tired of your content JC. RIP Frankie
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Happy to hear that :-)
I hope you'll have a part two on this project as I find it very interesting. Merry Christmas to you and Lori. Stay safe and warm.
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No need for one Dale. When I connected that last pipe to the cabin, i buried the system and the project was done. Merry Christmas :-)
Just like every Christmas season, I have been re-watching the Christmas with Frankie videos
What a great Christmas present - a BOSS video.
Jimmy, that was beautiful! Your friend will have a great system for decades. I had to dig out our old system a couple of years ago and put a new one in. It was a lot of work but I got tired of watching the kitchen sink drain slowly. Now, I stand away from the sink so it doesn't take me out with the drain water! My wife and I love to follow your videos. Please accept our very best wishes for a Healthy and Happy 2023 for you and Lori! Merry Christmas and God Bless!
Hope you and Lori had a good Christmas. This was interesting to watch. Two mutually beneficial talents helping each other.
Can’t forget the bubble foil! 😂 Great looking setup there! Thanks for sharing your design!
Boss, once again you got the job done like a pro and i learned something as well. Love the bubble foil. Take Care Brother
Hey Boss. That was interesting. Merry Merry and Happy Happy to you and Lori.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas to you and your family!!! Thanks for all the great videos this year!
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Merry Christmas :-)
Love the bubble Foil Boss,lol.Wish you and Lori & Tildy a great Christmas 🎄. God bless.
Thanx for the refresher. This is right around the bend for us too. No bubble foil for us though 😮 we don’t have to worry about frost/freezing. Be Safe!!
I did a single barrel 3 years ago, still working good. When I have to redo it I'll add that vertical barrel as you did here. Good idea!
Merry Christmas JD,Lori and ,Tildie....Hope all is well there.
Good info. Merry Christmas to you, Lori, & Tildy!
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Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Boss and Laurie ❤️.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas and new year as well.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Apparently you do such a good job whether putting in septic, insulating a building, homemade icebox that other KZreadrs I watch implement your DIY projects and mention your name, nice recognition. Today is a good example of DYI I learn something new. Love the ending 😂. Hugs to Tildy. You and Lori have a blessed Merryl Christmas 🎄😊🇺🇲.
Right on boss I use bubble foil for most of my projects it works great , keep up the good work .
Awesome. I’ve learned a lot from your channel. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Happy new years
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Merry Christmas :-)
Thanks for another great video and Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas boss and family. Great video thank you for sharing. This looks exactly what I'm going to do at my NH cabin as well.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! What great timing. I just rewatched the older video about your grey water system as I needed to install one at my Cabin. Then this video came out. !!! Thanks JC
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Merry Christmas :-)
Thank you for sharing… Merry Christmas… Best to you and yours.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Good old bubble foil!!! Don't know what I would do without it!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Lori, Boss. I love the way you live your freedom. I miss Frankie already, so sorry for your loss. 😢 May your sorrow be soothed and your happiness increase. ❤
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Thank you Tim and Merry Christmas :-)
Yay bubble foil , Got to love it!
A crazy week, Boss. My town was largely without electricity over Christmas so we loaned a back up generator to a friend, some camper stoves and one friend even came for a bath because their electricity froze. My life didn't change except for helping. Then was going to settle in for New Year just drinking coffee and reading a book when I got a call from a friend to come get a doe he took down so I have been busy. If it is indication of my 2023 I will be well fed and also doing the things to take care of business. I ordered a few new seeds and cleaned out my seed box which is a basket with lots of pencil pouches I put the packages in. God bless you and Lori and Tildy for the 2023. We lost 3 pets last year like your Frankie. I saw a book Angela's Ashes at the thrift store and remembered how he got his name. I read it and Tis. Loads of love from juanita mae and jim
Merry Christmas to you both! Thank you
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Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas JC and Lori & Tildi
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Merry Christmas to you and Lori!
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Merry Christmas :-)
I love the closing of you and Frankie on the 4 wheeler. You two were best buddies for sure. Merry CHRISTmas to you and your wife and family. GOD bless my friend.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas Boss, Here's to a Blessed New Year
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👍 Thanks :-) Merry Christmas
A very Merry Christmas to you both, love and God bless.
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Merry Christmas and God bless you all.
Great system and pretty similar to what I've drawn up for my septic system. And the washing machine gray water system too. I like bubble foil too. Used it in my country home for the in floor heat "reflector", in the trenches from the outdoor Woodstock to the livestock tank to keep it 45°F - 55°F perfect animal drinking temperature. I wrapped and taped it around the pex tubing before slipping it inside the black corrugated black plastic piping in a bed of sand to and spray foamed box with styrene panel on the under side of the box as a cover. Cutting the shape of elongated toilet seats (just 2) for the animals to drink out of all year around. I made a flow baffle and could turn on 1, 2 or 3 heat rings made of pex tubing coming off the inlet valve and returning to the outlet valve for heat circulation.. It works great in-30°F (approximately -48°C) weather with gusts up to 60 m.p.h. (approximately 97 Km per hour) here in Michigan. My water was never frozen.
Oh, this is great! I've been being constantly amazed at how simple systems can be. Plumbing was the last system left, and after watching this, I feel empowered to learn all the details! No magic or many thousands of dollars needed, just logic and knowledge. Thank you so much for making these videos.
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Glad you enjoyed :-)
Thnx for the update. Merry Christmas, Boss & family!
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Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas and a Bless New Year Lori and JC.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Great info! Exactly what I was looking for! 👍❤️
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Glad it was helpful!
Merry Christmas Jim, Lori, and Tildy, another amazing project so well executed! Love to you all, Katherine
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Thank you and Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas to you and your wife and you puppy ⛄🎄⛄ 🎄.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Merry Christmas my friend ,thank you for sharing this is great ,big hugs from MN
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Gonna use this on our new property.
Merry Christmas Lori and Boss!!!!!
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Merry Christmas :-)
Heck, I'm all caught up. Now I have to wait for some more videos. Don't know what I'm going to do with myself now. Thanks for sharing. Y'all take care.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. I've been subbed for years and look forward to each and every video. Thank you for sharing your dreams and projects with us. You and they are priceless. I've learned a lot over the years. Even planning a garden for the new year, despite my lack of experience. What have I got to lose? Nothing ventured nothing gained. At least I'll get some quality time outdoors with my land that will certainly be more satisfying than the traditional daily grind. Best wishes my friend. Be safe.
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Best of luck with your garden and Merry Christmas :-)
We have room for 2 off grid cabins on our place for quests to come stay in. This plastic barrel system will be perfect for our grey water systems! We’re very fortunate that we are on very very good gravel that’s very shallow that is outstanding for leaching and drainage.
Good stuff. Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas :-)
Thanks Boss, Merry Christmas to you and Lori, take care and stay warm.
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I love this guy already keep it up bud!!! Happy i found your channel
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Thank you kindly.
lol@ the bubblefoil joke. MERRY CHRISTMAS BOSS AND LAURIE!!!! A VERY BLESSED AND HEALTHY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO!!!!
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Merry Christmas :-)
i did do my septic at my cabin like you did your 1st one. i used only 1 (1/2 cut) barrel. 3 yrs ago+ and with 1 shower, 1 commode, bath sink, and kit sink, it is still working perfect. th
Merry Christmas and happy New Year! Boss man.. I put in an gray water system at my cabin after watching how you did yours.. works flawlessly!!! From ohio
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Love your bubble foil !!!
Bubble foil! Merry Christmas, JC, Lori and Tildy!
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Merry Christmas!!!🎄
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🎅 Happy Holidays
Love your videos and learn from you with each one. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
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Merry Christmas :-)
I always find it fascinating how companies make everything so complex and expensive when In reality you come along and BAM done. 😂 thank you!
Gotta say we stumbled accross your channel and we are addicted…condolences to the family. We loved Frankie, such a smart fella…look forward to your videos!!❤️
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Thank you and welcome to our channel.
Thanks for the video Boss. Have a healthy and happy Christmas 🎄with family and friends. And a New Year full of joy and prosperity⛄🎄.
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Merry Christmas :-)
I like the bubble foil near the cabin. It’s a belt and suspenders approach, making sure you don’t get caught with your pants down.
Great minds think alike....Almost exactly the same setup at my off grid cabin. The only difference is I cut a cleanout hole in the settling barrel, big enough for posthole digger. Covered it with a 16x16 patio stone and 8 inches of dirt. But in over 25 years I have not had to dig it out. The half barrels work way better than the pipe with holes buried in gravel. Great video!!
Wishing you & Lori a wonderful warm Christmas!!
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Merry Christmas Boss, Lori, Tildy, Lady Layers and beautiful people ❤🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Bubble foil,,,, just have to tell you, we are hooked on bubble foil now,,, we used your videos and bought some to cover and wrap our blow up hot tub,, that is in a shed , we are now able to keep it up all year,,, thank you thank you We so miss seeing Frankie, we has three borders in our lives so understand your loss Hugs to you and yours
Boss, please please please never get rid of your closing song about you and Frankie!!! Not only does it bring back memories of Frankie out and about running all over the place until, like me getting to old to do any more, but my wife laughs every time I sing it and she knows what I just finished watching. I really miss Frankie when he was much younger and everything he did. I’ve been watching your channel for a very long time and still enjoy it as much now if not more than the day I Subscribed. I can’t even remember when that was but I still have my post card you sent me hanging on the refrigerator and if you saw me you’d know I make a lot of trips to the fridge lol!!! Merry Christmas to you and Laurie as well as a Happy New Year - 2023!
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Thank you Bob. We miss Frankie more than words can say. Christmas morning was not the same without him and all the craziness of him opening his presents. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I just need to say I’m hooked! One of your videos showed up in my feed for the first time this morning, I’m now 8 videos in and it looks like I will be binge watching all day lol. Great output and content sir, thank you!
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Thank you for saying so and I hope you'll share my channel with others.
Merry Christmas to you both. 🎄🐾🙏🏻✌🏻
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Great video as always ! Merry Christmas my friend
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Merry Christmas and have a happy new year my friend. Ray
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Great How-2 Boss, You & Yours Stay Blessed & Safe & Merry Christmas ! Happy Heavenly Christmas For Ya Frankie ! Hugs For Tildy ! ATB T God Bless
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Merry Christmas 🎄⛄.
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Hey JC. What a great project! Gotta love that bubble foil :-) We had the bio chamber system installed at the usual excavation cost. Now we are on our 3rd repair in 6 years. Only the two of us. That's modern designs for ya. Merry Christmas to you and Lori. Happy 2023! ~ Diane
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They don't build them like they used to eh my friend?
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Not in the least '-)
Bless your heart!!! We put our septic tank system down right here in Trapper Creek Alaska with 2/ 250 gallon tanks that were used for oil they fry chicken in at Kentucky Fried chicken. They sell these tanks all over here in Alaska and they use them for tons of things here. Most people see them in the back of pick up trucks to hold water. These tanks are square and they have aluminium bars around them. Well we dug out enough dirt to be able to bury 2 of these tanks and a leach pipe about 10 feet long. We attached the 2 tanks together with a pipe between them so the first tank can flow into the 2nd tank through the top on the sides of the tanks. The pipe that's going from one tank to the next tank is glued so it won't move. Those tanks are called, solid tank and liquid tank. Then in order to make sure the tanks can not ever float, we wire hangered these heavy duty bed springs we got from an old military base and they were the bed springs they used for the military beds. I originally used them for fencing for my goats. They are sturdy and very heavy. We wired 2 on top and 6 all around the 2 tanks. Then from the top of the liquid tank, we put the leech pipe out the side on top, then down to the ground and ten feet out slightly at a down hill. I had the duty of filling the leech pipe hole full of bigger rocks so to be a drain into the ground after the waist water flows through the leech pipe.Then we wrapped that leech pipe with membrane so the silt can't clog that pipe up. We buried the whole thing and I haven't had to use the out house hole since, and it's lasted for 4 years now. And if ever I have to have it pumped out, I can because of course we made sure we put pump out pipes going up through the tops of the tanks. This project only cost me $1,200. Both tanks were only $100. The thing that cost me the most was paying the guy to dig the trench for the tanks and end leech pipe, then to burying it all up.
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Sounds like a good setup for sure. They sell those tanks here too. I always planned on going over to Trapper Creek just because i liked the name but never made it. I spent a lot of time in the Homer / Seldovia area but plan to return sometime in the near future.
Great video and Merry Christmas an God Bless.
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Merry Christmas!
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2 thumbs up ,, regards from ontario canada
Merry Christmas my friend!
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Merry Christmas BOSS. I’m head up to my cottage tomorrow after big storm wish me luck
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Merry Christmas ⛄🎄
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Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
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Merry Christmas :-)