Tank still holding.

Well as I only seem to be able to put in about 2 hours at the weekend when my daughter sleeps, I am hoping to really get a move on now that we have lighter nights.

I have got the pump plummed in along with a water metre. I now need to work on putting it into the roof space of my house. I will put some more photos up soon as I can.

My tank is still holding the water also. We have not had any more rain lately so still about 200 litres full.

Leaking Tank

Well I could not believe it.  It rained the other day and I filled my tank up in 1 day.

The Next Day it was Empty again!!!

I has been leaking from the float switch.   I have had to redesign how it is connected to the tank completely.  With the help of my local plumbing shop, I have used a waste pipe joint to fit to the tank and then fitted the float switch to that.

It was a real pain getting it connected to the tank but will allow easy servicing on the float switch if required.

As you can see from the pictures the switch is recessed with in the waste pipe joint.

It Rained last night and I have collected about 200 liters of water.  So far no leak!!!!

We shall see when the tank fills up a bit more with some more pressure what will happen.

Collecting Water

Well it has been a very productive weekend.  I am now collecting water.

On Saturday I took the Gutter on the right side of the house down to move the down pipe onto the back of the house so that the water goes down my garage roof.

Well I had to remove the whole gutter due to the face it was caked in dirt inside!   What a messy job.

I have used an old filter box to filter the water.

I have a small water leak at the moment and have to raise the filter box up a little.

I driller through the lid on the IBC and attached a water butt connector and added a small sock filter on.

As I could not reach to the bottom of the tank to fit a rubber seal I had to fashion a tool.  Pair of mole grips and a old pipe.

New down pipe going onto garage roof.   Due to the dish it is only fitted with cable ties at the moment.  Well need to move the dish to fit properly in place.

Connected a standard rain water diverter up.  I hope that this will be OK as I am using a big filter box.  Time will tell.   If not then I will have to buy a 3p filter.

This is showing the float switch at the bottom of the tank.   This will switch the pump off when the water is low.

This is the outside of the tank.  I hope that it is water tight!

It's raining tonight and kind of gives me a good feeling, usually hate it when it is raining.    

Next stage is to run the piping into the roof space.

Float Switches arrived

I have got an old box filter that I am going to use to filter the water and have bought some new sponge filters for it as the old ones are no up to standard.

Also purchased some piping to fit it together to a new rainwater diverter and some gutter connectors to divert the water from my roof to the garage roof.

I have also put my IBC Tank in it's place and leveled it off.

Well My float switches have arrived, they are much smaller that I thought.  

It's raining tonight lots and I missing it.   Hope to be collecting rain by this weekend.

Float Switches ordered.

I have just ordered my float switches from REUK and am planning on getting a few other things this weekend. So I should be collecting water very soon I hope.

Hope to have some more photos up soon.

New usage

Well after a week of getting the leak fixed we have now gone back down to our normal usage of 1000 litres per week. My wife has filled out the leak form and sent it to the waterboard. We shall now see what happens with the outstanding bill and see if it gets reduced.

Water Leak Sorted.

Well A Big thanks to Dave!

He has managed to find my leak!   It was in the upstairs toilet!   The rubber valve on the filler valve was gone and overflowing by a great deal.   Now need to fill out the water leak form for the water board.

I have also purchased a header tank and 25 meters of plastic pipe.    Will up load some pictures soon.

Also moved blog from Iweb to Blogger to allow easier uploading....