Rainwater uses in house?
29 October 2006, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The only thing you'll need to do to keep the waterboard happy is to have one way valves attatched to your mains suppply in.
They get rather tetchy if they think thier water is likely to be "contaminated" from your well / stream supply.
Personally, once the new system is settled in and proven to meet your needs, I'd have the mains supply cut off and save yourself a few bob.
Andy
They get rather tetchy if they think thier water is likely to be "contaminated" from your well / stream supply.
Personally, once the new system is settled in and proven to meet your needs, I'd have the mains supply cut off and save yourself a few bob.
Andy
As for cutting off the mains, I'm only in a detached estate house so would have to rely on rainwater off the roof. I can collect from all the roofs on the house, back and front, but would need the mains for when we don't get much rain. No options for getting water from streams or anywhere.
Just think the above would be a good idea to retrofit onto most older houses. It would allow rainwater to meet a lot of the needs thus saving reservoir capacity for the dryer months. Of course, this wouldn't go down to well with the water companies as they would start losing money .....
Dave
29 October 2006, 08:31 PM
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Main issue isn't easy...
Any outside tap that is used with say a hosepipe attatched is "supposed to have" a non return / check valve in for this very reason.
Its a safety measure if they have a problem with the supply pressure during maintenance work and such.
I've worked with the waterboard in the past through my last employment welding up leaky underground mains pipes. Was good money and found out why afterwards, if I had ballsed up the welding I would have been washed into the next county by the pressure.
Any outside tap that is used with say a hosepipe attatched is "supposed to have" a non return / check valve in for this very reason.
Its a safety measure if they have a problem with the supply pressure during maintenance work and such.
I've worked with the waterboard in the past through my last employment welding up leaky underground mains pipes. Was good money and found out why afterwards, if I had ballsed up the welding I would have been washed into the next county by the pressure.
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