Any Body Specialise In Rain Water Harvesting ?

[Centralheatking]

This a confused explaination - I am an expert on this ask me CHK

You have seperate supply systems in the house, you only use the rain water for grey water systems e.g. flush toilets, water gardens and sometimes feed washing machines.

see here: Environment Agency - Re-using and harvesting water

 

[mtpipe]

Hi . Yes its a good idea but as mains is about £1.65 per 1000 litres , it seems too cheap to bother with. All the renewable energy stuff is great , providing jo customer understands it, ie the rainwater filters need regular cleaning to actually allow water to deposit where its required. Cant see Lord and Lady Muck, let alone the "handy man" doing it.
I have used those Milton Rings, 1050 mm diameter x 2 metres deep/tall , on a concrete base, black jacked the inside, biscuit lid, submersible pump via a mercury switch float in loft on 1st tank, gravity feeding to larger 100gal tank, works a treat, and our annual water bills are less than £100, that for a family of 3.

 

[Ermintrude]

Use the jointing compound between rings and get ones with out step irons. Stantonbona cheap. Wrap with 100mm concrete and she's water tight. Just make sure it's a lockable lid ..... 2.4 children can rapidly become 1.4 !

 

[cushlow]

I built my own RW system - no mains near me. Put gutters on a large corrugated iron shed (112m2 catch) with RW downpipes to a single 3600 litre black potable tank. Then boosted to the house. I put in a basic prefilter before the tank and intend installing a cartridge filter after the pump, but so far happy days, no chloride no fluoride just sweet rain. Nicest tasting water ever and no water charges! Whole system cost about £1500

 

[Worcester]

I built my own RW system - no mains near me. Put gutters on a large corrugated iron shed (112m2 catch) with RW downpipes to a single 3600 litre black potable tank. Then boosted to the house. I put in a basic prefilter before the tank and intend installing a cartridge filter after the pump, but so far happy days, no chloride no fluoride just sweet rain. Nicest tasting water ever and no water charges! Whole system cost about £1500

Works fine so long as the dead pidgeon and the dead mouse that the crow dropped on the roof and their guts have now washed down into the tank and are nicely festering don't cause a problem..

In Australia and NZ rain water capturing is common practice (my brother has it on his farm in NZ and my sister has one on her outback ranch in Australia, dead animal (small) and washed in bird poo are the biggest contaminants, so the water needs to be cleaned to potable standards before drinking.

 

[cushlow]

Works fine so long as the dead pidgeon and the dead mouse that the crow dropped on the roof and their guts have now washed down into the tank and are nicely festering don't cause a problem..

In Australia and NZ rain water capturing is common practice (my brother has it on his farm in NZ and my sister has one on her outback ranch in Australia, dead animal (small) and washed in bird poo are the biggest contaminants, so the water needs to be cleaned to potable standards before drinking.

Our crows don't drop their mice! And eat the pigeons.

But yes you are strictly correct. I've seen a variety of systems in different parts of the world. If you keep the catch clean and filter the water I don't believe you necessarily need further treatment. I'm only filtering out lichen, leaves and twigs. But cleaning the gutters is important, specially autumn, obviously.

In Bermuda they paint their roofs with a latex based paint and most people drink the water with no further treatment - if the roof is clean. But like here there is less pollution.

If you see no more posts from me you will know I have dropped dead from contaminated water!

 

[LDhiman]

just want to put it out there. Im in no way talking about making it portable lol.

 

[Howsie]

Did Cushlow drop dead?

 

[LDhiman]

Did Cushlow drop dead?

looks like it lol

 

[mickie]

The standing charge of water for us is £10 a month, our total bill a month is £20

The cost of fitting even a small tank still isnt worth doing unless i got the stuff free.. I wont be bothering after looking into it.. interesting fact, i spend £50 a year having a crap..