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Any way the main reason for setting this up is to give you the details of my rainwater harvesting project.

After being in our house for over 1 year and paying for around 30 cubic meters of water per quarter our last Any way the main reason for setting this up is to give you the details of my rainwater harvesting project.

After being in our house for over 1 year and paying for around 30 cubic meters of water per quarter our last bill was a bit of a surprise.  It seems that we have used 73 Cubic meters.   We are on a water meter.  I have done all of the leak tests and could not find anything.

It seems that we are currently using around 4 to 5 cubic meters of water per week, which we have worked out as not being correct.  

We are getting the water company to check out the meter as we think it may be faulty at the cost of £75.   If it is found to be faulty then we will get that back.

During this investigation I decided that it would be a good idea to look into rain water harvesting.   

After doing quite a bit of web surfing it seemed that the most cost effective would be to do my own DIY system as the professional system is far too expensive!

With some advice from a friend at work I have decided to install a tank outside and pump water up to a small tank in the loft for the toilets and washing machine to run on rain water. was a bit of a surprise.  It seems that we have used 73 Cubic meters.   We are on a water meter.  I have done all of the leak tests and could not find anything.

It seems that we are currently using around 4 to 5 cubic meters of water per week, which we have worked out as not being correct.  

We are getting the water company to check out the meter as we think it may be faulty at the cost of £75.   If it is found to be faulty then we will get that back.

During this investigation I decided that it would be a good idea to look into rain water harvesting.   

After doing quite a bit of web surfing it seemed that the most cost effective would be to do my own DIY system as the professional system is far too expensive!

With some advice from a friend at work I have decided to install a tank outside and pump water up to a small tank in the loft for the toilets and washing machine to run on rain water.