Guys, I got an idea, which is generally a bad thing.
My air handler is inside my back basement (man room), and it has a catch pan underneath of it for the ac drain. Plumber into the side of that catch pan is a drain line, that runs through my wall and right onto my back sidewalk around the house. Usually makes a nasty slimy mess on the sidewalk that drives the misses nuts. Last year at the end of the AC season, my drain line got plugged with crap, and quit draining. House is about 20 years old.
I took a 5/8 drill bit to the bottom of the pan, and drained it into a 5 gallon pail for the last few weeks. I watered all sorts of flowers with the bucket, shoot, even the dogs were drinking the handled water. I was in heaven, saving water and never have to fill a bucket for the dogs again.
My kitchen sink 2" drain line runs right beside the AC platform, so I got to thinking...
I went to home depot and got (starting from the sink drain) a 2" Y valve, a 2" trap, neck that down into 1", got a one way valve and a 1" T connector, then 1" pipe to go to the bottom of the drain pan.
So what I'm thinking of doing is keep one 5 gallon bucket down here, keep my valve open so the water runs into my spetic system, but when I want to fill my gallon bucket for watering plants, I just turn the valve and it fills the bucket instead of draining into the septic.
My question is, on a really humid day the AC produces about 15 to 20 gallons of water. Will that constant 15 gallons of relatively fresh water harm my septic?
Figuring it's just water, it should run out to the drain field, right?