Re: Rainwater harvesting

[Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did it with my new self build about 2 years ago - 1000 gallon
underground tank takes all the runoff from all the roof gutters, and
intelligent pump controls allow automatic switching to mains if the tank
runs out.  Cost about £2.5k, dug the hole while the groundworkers were
on site.  It feeds the toilets, garden taps and washing machine, and
saves around two thirds of the previous water bill - I reckon it will
pay for iteself in around 7 years if water prices stay constant.  In 2
years its only run out once, and that was about a week ago, a couple of
days rain will fill it back up pretty quickly.  Got it from
www.freewater.co.uk, nice bloke.  Contact me off list if you need
further details.

Martin

Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) wrote:

>There's a few guys on the UK_Selfbuild list doing this with systems
>running currently. I think there were some commercial systems used, but
>some were definitely home brew :-)
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>UK_Selfbuild list is at: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/UK_Selfbuild/
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>HTH,
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>Tim.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Patrick Lidstone
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>>Any UKHA'ers harvesting rainwater as an integral part of
>>their water supply? (ie. not just a water butt!) Seems like a
>>commonsense thing to do, but would be interested to hear of
>>first hand experiences (and retrofit costs)...
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>>Cheers
>>Patrick
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