Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Rich Wilts on August 24, 2015, 04:26:27 pm
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Just started rain-water harvesting today.
Checked the waters TDS - 005 ppm. No need for resin even.
Im thinking it'll save soomething like £25.00 a month - maybe more. Total water bill per month for supply and drainage is £170.00, but that does include domestic. I guess if it rained at night, every night it'd cut the RO bill down to zilch. Would save on resin too. Thats not going to happen though but its a start.
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Even with a reading that low I'd be inclined to run it through a carbon filter and DI vessel to take out any bugs and organisms
Darran
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Even with a reading that low I'd be inclined to run it through a carbon filter and DI vessel to take out any bugs and organisms
Darran
Me to!
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Quarter-light you are missing a trick mate. I'm hoping to harvest rainwater as well and should be able to get enough to run all year. It's very green and that is a USP worth shouting about.
It makes you that little bit different from all the other windys.
I'd personally run it through a DI as you should get 4000 litres per litre of resin at that TDS.
I've found a farmer that will let me have as much rainwater as I want for nothing but finding a car for nothing is my problem at the moment.
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005ppm....very nice :)
Muslin cloth provides good filtration before water enters and leaves storage tank
Unless you intend to drink large amounts of it :)
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This maybe of interest as this is what I use http://www.rainwaterhub.co.uk/
I've found it to be the most efficient diverter available. Not only that you can place the holding tanks wherever you want them too. ;D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIDENr6XEtA
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Do you have any pics of your set up Matt?
Would be interesting to see how you've done it ..
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I've tied one of these to my downspout - tds hasn't improved and it makes a hell of a racket ???
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I've tied one of these to my downspout - tds hasn't improved and it makes a hell of a racket ???
;D
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Do you have any pics of your set up Matt?
Would be interesting to see how you've done it ..
Its just a piece of kit that you get from Homebase that gardeners use to save rainwater for watering their tomatos.
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I've tied one of these to my downspout - tds hasn't improved and it makes a hell of a racket ???
;D
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I've found that if you use this type of diverter
http://www.screwfix.com/p/rainwater-diverter-black-70mm/27866?kpid=27866&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&cm_mmc=Google-_-Shopping%20-%20Plumbing-_-Shopping%20-%20Plumbing&gclid=CO-f3YCvxMcCFZUYGwod5uUAOw&kpid=27866 it's is very inefficient as most of the water go straight down the drain so are no good if you want to collect as much rainwater as you can.
Hence that is why I got a rainhub instead as it’s very efficient as did not want to waste rainwater. Not only that a big plus with using a rainhub I also have the option to put my holding tank wherever I like instead of having to have them by a downspout.
On one heavy persistent downpour using that rainwater hub it filled a 1000 litre ibc in no time at all. That is why in the end I set up 3 x 1000 litre ibc’s to catch as much rainwater as I could.
Mind you after saying that I have not bothered with harvisting rainwater for a long time as I'm not on a water meter so continue to use a static ro/di system instead ;D
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it's is very inefficient as most of the water go straight down the drain so are no good if you want to collect as much rainwater as you can.
Dunno what you've done but thats what Ive got and it filled my 800 litre tank in two hours today.
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it's is very inefficient as most of the water go straight down the drain so are no good if you want to collect as much rainwater as you can.
Dunno what you've done but thats what Ive got and it filled my 800 litre tank in two hours today.
Rained heavy im guessing...However think of all the water you could have colleted as if you are using a chepo diverter it only collects a small amount from around the sides of the pipe and the rest goes down the drain. ;D
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Do you have any pics of your set up Matt?
Would be interesting to see how you've done it ..
Its just a piece of kit that you get from Homebase that gardeners use to save rainwater for watering their tomatos.
Cheers, I was just wondering if you had a stack of IBC's all linked up or something!
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And it's still bloody raining ;D
That 's the thing when you start collecting rainwater as no matter what size tanks you have it's never enough as 40,000 litres of water falls on the roof of an average UK house each year
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it's is very inefficient as most of the water go straight down the drain so are no good if you want to collect as much rainwater as you can.
Dunno what you've done but thats what Ive got and it filled my 800 litre tank in two hours today.
Rained heavy im guessing.
Keep guessing ;)
I'll put up some pics if i get a chance. I had an inspection of the amount going into the tank and the amount continuing to go down the downpipe. Its very simple. The water that goes into the tank is the water that runs down the sides of the down-pipe (this is the hows and the whys that the water actually gets diverted), whilst the water that goes down the drain is what falls through the downpipe without touching the sides. Id say the ratio was 3:1 of water into tank:water down drain.
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161803116290?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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I do quite a bit of water harvesting and have found it has a large amount of black crud in it so one need to filter it. So I am making a filter tube with UPVC pipe with batting( Is a fiber you get from a material shop used to upholster furnisher) in it to catch the muck.
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sounds like a lot of work for a little return
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It's saved £30 this week for an £8.00 outlay and 5 minutes work.
But then again there's not a lot that gains your approval on here is there Susan.
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Sound good....May I ask how did you work it out that it saved yourself 30 squid?
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My monthly water supply and sewerage bill is £170. 00.
I assume my domestic requirements are somewhere around £35.00 a month. They won't be anymore. That leaves £135.00 for work over a 22 day working month. That's £6.00 a day. We worked 5 days this week with no R.O. produced pure water.
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Nice one ;)
My monthly water supply and sewerage bill is £170. 00.
I assume my domestic requirements are somewhere around £35.00 a month. They won't be anymore. That leaves £135.00 for work over a 22 day working month. That's £6.00 a day. We worked 5 days this week with no R.O. produced pure water.
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It's saved £30 this week for an £8.00 outlay and 5 minutes work.
But then again there's not a lot that gains your approval on here is there Susan.
no gain at all in real money term , as water is 100% tax deductible , so buy you saving money puts your profit up less out goings to put agains it meaning you pay more tax sounds like a good way to run a business to me lol
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Still got to pay for your water though even though its tax free. So your tax saving might only be 20p or so in the pound. Anything that cuts your outgoings down has to be a good thing. Unless of course you are fond of cooking your books and not declaring your true income?
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Still got to pay for your water though even though its tax free. So your tax saving might only be 20p or so in the pound. Anything that cuts your outgoings down has to be a good thing. Unless of course you are fond of cooking your books and not declaring your true income?
+1 ;D
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It's saved £30 this week for an £8.00 outlay and 5 minutes work.
But then again there's not a lot that gains your approval on here is there Susan.
no gain at all in real money term , as water is 100% tax deductible , so buy you saving money puts your profit up less out goings to put agains it meaning you pay more tax sounds like a good way to run a business to me lol
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i think she gets your point now ;D