[Rich Wilts]

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.

[Smudger]

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

[supernova77]

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!

[Gerald Ash]

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.

[gary999]

005ppm....very nice

Muslin cloth provides good filtration before water enters and leaves storage tank

Unless you intend to drink large amounts of it

[Smurf]

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIDENr6XEtA

[DaveG]

Do you have any pics of your set up Matt?

Would be interesting to see how you've  done it ..

[Dave Willis]

I've tied one of these to my downspout - tds hasn't improved and it makes a hell of a racket 

[Smurf]

I've tied one of these to my downspout - tds hasn't improved and it makes a hell of a racket 

 

[Rich Wilts]

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.

[gary999]

I've tied one of these to my downspout - tds hasn't improved and it makes a hell of a racket 

 

[Smurf]

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 

[Rich Wilts]

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.

[Smurf]

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. 

[DaveG]

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!

[Smurf]

And it's still bloody raining 

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

[Rich Wilts]

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.

[Ian101]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161803116290?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

[slap bash]

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.

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

sounds like a lot of work for a little return