How to run washing machine without council water

[AndyD]

I'm not an expert but I'd imagine all modern machines have sufficient safety built into them to prevent damage if there's insufficient water supply. It might throw up some kind of error code to let you know it's not happy but I'd just try it and see.

[AndyD]

I got a message from a friend of mine the other day telling me his washing machine uses 300 litres per cycle on it's fastest wash program and asking if there's anything he can do to reduce it. I was pretty surprised, even though it's a big 13 kilo top loader I had no idea a washing machine could use so much water. I downloaded the manual for my AEG machine which is an 8 Kg front loader and it uses between 48 and 70 litres per cycle depending on what program you use. That's a damn big difference, even doubling my machine consumption to account for the fact one load in his machine would be 2 loads in mine it means his machine is still using 3 times the amount of water.....

[Houses4Rent]

A client of mine reduces the inlet flow valve to his washing machine to a minimum. When the machine takes in water he fills it though the soap drawer with a watering can which he says is pretty fast. It works well he says. Not sure about switching supply off all together though. I wrote to my machine manufacturer BOSCH about that, but so far had zero reply.

300l sounds insane though.

[rh1]

I use my unfiltered wellpoint water. I have a small DAB pump with a pressure regulator connected to 4 x 1890 litre tanks. Initially we used a hosepipe to fill the washing machine, but I connected the WM directly to the to my wellpoint system. The trick is to let the water settle at least overnight (in the tanks) so that the clothes are not stained.

My next step is to connect the pool pump and sand filter as well as my filtration system (already purchased) just did not have the time as yet