Originally Posted by mycatsmom

I am on a septic and have laundry issues. I have a large hose from an above ground pool. It is several inches across and probably 12 foot long. My laundry room is right by the back door and when I wash something with a lot of threads or lint. I remove the drain hose from the wall. I tie a string around the faucet by the place where the hose goes into the wall. I tie this string around the big hose, holding it up near the faucet and put the end of the drain hose in it. The other end of the hose goes out the back door away from the house. All of the water and lint runs out of the house onto the ground. This only takes me a minute to set up and has saved major plumbing bills. When I have felted wool, there is a huge pile of fibers at the end.