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In Reply to: Is it a long weekend? ........ posted by three_sox on March 16, 2007 at 17:48:54:
We are going to be putting in tanks, too.1 A BIG one - at first just to add to the grey water I'll also be using on the garden, but eventually to wash us and clothes with and have jugs of in the fridge. This will be fed by about 35% of the roof PLUS the deck, making an area bigger than half the house.-
Issues?
We aren't allowed to mix RW into pipes also running the supplied potable water. But, I think you are allowed to switch it into taps etc and appliances, so long as the supply water is not being used WITH it. I will be doing it anyway, so there!
I'll need to get the main BIG rain water tank mounted just high enough for suff. pressure to feed the mains pressure HWS, which IS almost new after all, and then we can use it for Hot and Cold for showers and laundry, and flushing, and hot water for the dishwasher.
Long-term there'll be two or four 1,050? liter garden-tanks at the back of the NEW shed. Fed from 'Old' gutters - what I saved - on each side. (proposed and now cluttering up the back yard). ? Industry surplus steel 1050l starch tanks on steel frames over pallets to keep the head of water high enough for the highest-up (back) garden.
Plus another medium size tank just near the kitchen providing nice fresh drinking and cooking water. HERE, tanks visible from the road-way have to be disguised, but I will probably put a garden-watering connection on the two front Dp's - for when the next drought comes!
Eventually we'll be able to have mains water JUST to fight fires, or for when the tanks are all dry!!
I am also 'thinking about' getting ($$$) a petrol generator about 5kva - to feed an AC high-pressure water pump ($$) - in case we get another fire event AND lose AC mains / mains WATER and I/the CFU still need to put out fires. I'd build a steel fire-resistant cover for both, and have some fire resistant hose.
The gennie would afterwards come in handy - to run the fridge, and stove / microwave - if nothing else - until the power is back on! It was > than 2 weeks last time! And, fast food isn't CHEAP!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
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