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.
3 comments:
Looks good, but how do you prevent algae growing in the tank due to sunlight? I reckon you'll need to cover the tank during the summer months or you'll soon have green water, which may stain the porcelain!!
Hey Andi! Yeah, dad-hood is upon me, and very scary it is too. Well, to be honest it's easy, but then we have the most laid back baby I've ever seen.
That's some serious engineering going on there, will have to come back and see how it goes...
Steve,
All ready got that one in hand. In fact where it is at the moment is does not really get any sun, but I am planning to cover it is weatherboard to make it look like a small shed.
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