[Lee GLS]

Im moving house and i will have to have a static tank and purification setup as i can park the van near the house for long enough to fill the tank.

What is the best holding tank to get, (the cheapest, funds are tight and so is space) it needs to be 600L.

Also what about insulating the tank? it will be in a brick shed/outhouse,

[Smudger]

get your self an IBC or 2 - 1000 ltr ones from as little as £40 - just give em a good jet wash out


should be fine in a brick shed other than the coldest of winters    

Darran

[simbag]

should be fine in a brick shed other than the coldest of winters    

Darran

Like the one we just had you mean...? 

I have a 1000l in my garage, and that froze this winter, and I didn't think it would. Mine is sat on a concrete floor so I think I may raise it at some point, and also place some sort of insulation between the outside wall and the tank.

[R W C™]

Mines in a shed, in the winter i put a duvet inside the door, a tube heater under the ro and oil rad, didnt freeze once

[Lee GLS]

I dont think I will get an ibc through the door!

[Smudger]

yeah no probs!

 :


 

Darran

[DaveG]

What about an upright 600 litre tank Lee or a 600 litre ibc?

We did the same as RWC and didnt have any probs with freezing either. If its really cold, have the RO running through the day and take indoors overnight and have a couple of fish tank heaters in the tank

[Lee GLS]

i think you are right it will have to be a 650 upright, does anyone know the width of the 600 ibc's?

[Window Washers]

Hi Lee,


you can get a 1050l tank cost about £250 each they fit through a door, this is what I use in my unit as it only has normal doors,

I doubt a 600l ibc would fit through a standard door, a 650 wfp would though easy.


Ian

[Lee GLS]

thanks for the info ian, looks like i will have to get a proper baffled tank then, i need it to be a cheap as possible though, because all my money is going into buying the house  , and there isnt really anything left over to be buying other stuff, i wil have to keep an eye out for a second hand one. 

[Alistair@AWC]

Lee,

Off the top of my head I think a 650 IBC is 800x1000

Although you could dismantle it and squash the tank through the door then rebuild it once inside

[Dave Anderson]

I bought a 2000l holding tank last year and raised it 4 inch off the ground and insulated the base then built a frame around it using 2x2 and then polystyreen slabs within the frame work...

used a 1kw titantium heater in the tank connected to a thermostat set for 8 deg and no problems. Placed a timer on the tank pump and then created a loop back into the tank...why...so the heater doesnt need to work so hard.

with a tank this size once the water is at around 8deg c....it'll stay like that for days. This setup is in my carport...so it got down to -11 on many evenings without incident.

This enclosure also included my ro system and this never froze either....

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=111578.msg951978#msg951978

Cheers
Dave.