[lou75]

Hiya all,

Im currently trying to plan my wfp system at home but have a couple of doubts. I have a garage 70 yds away down a private path at back of house. I planned to have a static system in the garage with a large tank, then fill up the van tank from there. Im wondering the best way to supply water to the garage system. I have enough hose pipe to reach the garage from the house. So thats going to be the supply i suppose, but as i may be running some power to the garage, which will have to go underground, im wondering whether its best to run the hose in a channel underground or keep it as a non-fixed hose water supply that i can reel in and out when i need the supply to the garage ? The path is shared by another family so its not practical for the hose to be left lying indefinitely on top of the path but should be ok to reel it out for a bit each evening to supply the garage for purification.
But how long do i need to be supplying the garage for each day ? Is it an all night thing or a lot less ?
Do you think i should make the hose a fixed, and maybe insulated, installation underground or shall i just reel it in and out when required ? Insulation because im aware the pipe is going to freeze in winter 
Will the hose get water 70 yds to garage with sufficient pressure or will i need to install a pump do you think ??

problems problems

any advice appreciated.

i plan on having maybe ordering a diy system from pure freedom on a pallet and building it myself with maybe a 1000 litre tank in garage and a 400 litre tank in the van.

[DaveG]

Is there a drain near the garage because you will need one for the waste?

[lou75]

Regarding drain - no im not sure there is now you mention it. I might be wrong but the closest drain may be back at my house 70yds away. How much waste is produced ? Can it be collected and taken to the drain ?

cheers

[d s windowcleaning]

Regarding drain - no im not sure there is now you mention it. I might be wrong but the closest drain may be back at my house 70yds away. How much waste is produced ? Can it be collected and taken to the drain ?

cheers

the waste produced will be around 50% , i was in a same sort of position as you before i moved , i put my hose under ground then got some pole hose which i connected on to the waste pipe and run that to the drain .
i didnt need a booster pump as water pressure was good .

[lou75]

did the underground hose freeze in winter ?


cheers

[John Walker]

At my previous property, I routed the waste water to a numer of raised flower beds, rather than just lose it. - worked really well.

[d s windowcleaning]

did the underground hose freeze in winter ?


cheers

no mate i put some pipe insulation on it before i buried it around 12"" deep never had a problem with it even with the bad winter weve just had .

[lou75]

What sort of pipe insulation did you put on it if you dont mind me asking. This might end up being one of the costliest bits because id imagine at 70m the insulation will cost a good bit more than the hose.

Do you think im gonna be short of pressure at 70m of hose ?

I was playing with the idea of instead reeling out the hosepipe occasionally and filling a 2nd 1000 litre tank in the garage so that this rather than the hose/mains can supply the purification process. This would save me having to run 70yds of insulated hose pipe to the garage. Do you think that would work ?

Sorry about all the questions. Its just this is gonna be a big job and i dont want to see costs spiral out of control or do all this trench digging/instalation work to find ive missed something important.

cheers for the help lads.

[Supreme clean window cleaning]

dig two holes one by your tap and one by your garage get someone who has a mole and fire it between the too with 40 mil ducket on it then you put some 25mm poly pipe up it conect to your tap look to see if you can see anyone from the water bord or gas cus there have a mole and just chuck them a drink save trench all that way and its permenmant and wont freeze

[lou75]

you put some 25mm poly pipe up the mole ? Is that legal ?