IBC Tank Rainwater Harvesting

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Am really thinking of giving it a go.

Thinking of getting 2X 1000L units (local shop has them for £25 each). They have been steam cleaned and have only been used for food.

I want to stack them ideally as my space is limited. I also have nice easy access for the guttering on both front and back of the house, garage to feed the tanks.

Anyone done it?
 
I have a water butt which I use to run my pressure washer but nothing on that scale. I assume you mean to use this water as drinking water? Don't you need any sort of treatment?
 
neodude said:
I have a water butt which I use to run my pressure washer but nothing on that scale. I assume you mean to use this water as drinking water? Don't you need any sort of treatment?
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No not to be used as drinking water, that's silly.

I have a Koi pond (5000L currently) but 2 cars, 1van and a bike to wash soon adds up
 
I've been wanting to use rain water to water plants and flush the toilets but have never got around to doing anything about it.

I have three water butts (recommended supplier by council) but I keep getting leaks. I've returned 2 but the replacements have also sprung leaks.

Your post has reminded me of such plans.
 
isonomicjedi said:
I've been wanting to use rain water to water plants and flush the toilets but have never got around to doing anything about it.

I have three water butts (recommended supplier by council) but I keep getting leaks. I've returned 2 but the replacements have also sprung leaks.

Your post has reminded me of such plans.
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I could fit 4 in total but I think 2 will do for now. It's just a case of how best to plumb them
 
Theres a great series of vids on youtube from LDSprepper about this. Im going to be doing the same thing for watering the garden etc.

 
Hopefully pointing out the obvious here, but the higher you can mount these things, the more water pressure you will get out of the hose. Raising a tonne of water each carries it's own problems though.

Rainwater from the roof will carry off all the bird poo as well, so you might want some kind of first.in.first.out system, or a way of filtering the water first. Four tanks of stinky bird bacteria won't be good.
 
looks interesting I want to extend my house but in Belgium all new or extended roofs need to have a rain water tank installed. I'll have to install a 5000l tank in my front garden adding nearly 5K€ onto the build price. (Wonders if he can get away with 5 1Kl tanks in back garden :D)
 
LordSplodge said:
I find this option called water rates rather than metered use to be quite useful.

To quote Charlton Heston. You'll take my flat rate water use out of my cold dead (wet?) hands.
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Just because a lot of people aren't on metered rates doesn't mean they should not bother seeking ways to reduce water usage. The amount of high quality drinking water that is used for things that don't need it is ridiculous, and like anything else just because you (and I for that matter) don't pay for volume of water used, we pay increased prices for the flat rates because the cost of this treatment.

It's a laudable goal, and if we had room in the garden I'd have one or more water harvesting units.
 
bitslice said:
Sorry, I'm on Virgin Cable and trying to watch youtube videos is all but impossible. It's actually quicker to download a blu-ray :(
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Then something is broken. YouTube works just fine here on VM.

platypus said:
It's a laudable goal, and if we had room in the garden I'd have one or more water harvesting units.
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It probably is, even more so if you are metered as it saves money. I have a brook that flows through my garden. I might have been tempted to use that as grey water (would need some filtering) if I was metered. As is I'll continue to enjoy my unmetered water and deep, deep baths.
 
LordSplodge said:
Then something is broken. YouTube works just fine here on VM.
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It is a known VM problem, plenty of threads on ther forum about it going back years, but VM never fix it, something to do with peering issues.
It only affects some people, like I never used to have it, but now I do.

The workaround is to use a proxy, then it streams like it was a Chinese baby down a sewer.
 
Just struck gold on 4 IBC 1000L tanks for a tidy some of £40 cash. All been used once for food. Getting them delivered tonight, then will have the steam cleaning man my missies employs come clean them.

I now need to find a site for some fittings.
 
Darn good price.

Are you going to daisy chain them, & have just one main outlet feed?

MDPE Fittings will probably be best.

You can readily buy IBC adaptors like 60 mm or 63mm Buttress thread to a 1" or 2" BSP Male & Female thread & 60 mm Butrress thread to a garden hoselock fitting.

This link explains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abz5XHJq00U
 
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