New subscriber here. Blessings to you. Here is a tip - to drain the tank… take a garden hose and put it in (on top) and run it down to the bottom of the tank. Use a couple of hoses and have it point down hill (down by your house. Then connect the hose to your Spicket. Turn it on and let it fill the entire hose. When the line is full of water 💦…. Kink the hose (so you don’t loose pressure) and then unkink it. It should create a suction and it will drain the tank. It will take longer … but you can direct the water (and maybe water a tree or the garden
I'm thinking about rainwater harvesting and homesteading for about 3 years now, but I have the time for about 5 months now to read a lot about how to manage everything. Your rainwater harvesting system and the way you explain the things is just what I needed. As a woman living by myself I need to do lots of thing on my own. I can do this. Thank you very much for showing your works on yt.
Great video. At 05:12 the first flush looks like it allows some water to get past cos of that collar... I wonder if there's a first flush without that collar around the diverter
I mean, before the diverter has filled up, if there's a slow flow of rainwater coming in, that collar will let some water past... I'm gonna look for a first flush which has that float collar inside the bottom of the T , not up in the horizontal part of the T
we are locked down again in my country, just before lockdown we got delivered a nice big water tank. I cant wait to get back to the hardware store to get the parts for my rainwater collection. Good tip on the leaf eater, I will look into one of these.
This may be a little off the subject, but it is your water just fron crop and if so, what will you do for regular drinking water for the home in case of some disaster? I am just trying to figure something out for myself. My property isn't as large as yours.
Is better to leave the water tank above or below ground ? 3 people are here have ponds and a geologist told me that there water. I keep getting the run around I did have on gentleman told me it would cost me $30,000.00 to $40,000.00. The zoning department said it had to be 75 feet. Don't know how far they need to drill. It is too expensive.
I don't have a well. Who do i contact to put in one of those water tanks. Yes, and i do have neighbors around me. I don't wantbanybof the to savatoch my water system.
Rainharvesting association no longer recommends first flush, they require maintenance which no one ever does. They fill up with debris and no one every empties
Don't waste your money on such projects. Check your water bill to see what you are paying per gallon of water. It's probably less than $0.05. It will take decades for this to collect enough water to recover your cost.
All the parts are listed in the video description. Here are some of them..... Blue Mountain Co. Rainwater Harvest Parts: Leaf Eater: amzn.to/3F49NxR First Flush:amzn.to/3zRM28d Over Flow: amzn.to/2ZMHWC8 Tank Level Guage: amzn.to/3CWWbmb
New subscriber here. Blessings to you. Here is a tip - to drain the tank… take a garden hose and put it in (on top) and run it down to the bottom of the tank.
Use a couple of hoses and have it point down hill (down by your house. Then connect the hose to your Spicket. Turn it on and let it fill the entire hose. When the line is full of water 💦…. Kink the hose (so you don’t loose pressure) and then unkink it. It should create a suction and it will drain the tank. It will take longer … but you can direct the water (and maybe water a tree or the garden
I'm thinking about rainwater harvesting and homesteading for about 3 years now, but I have the time for about 5 months now to read a lot about how to manage everything.
Your rainwater harvesting system and the way you explain the things is just what I needed. As a woman living by myself I need to do lots of thing on my own. I can do this.
Thank you very much for showing your works on yt.
You're welcome Rosie. You can do it!
So glad you are doing this, because we are, too! I love the way you explain the pipe fittings needed. Thank you so much!
You’re welcome
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!! Blessings on you and your home!
Thank you. Blessings to you too
We have 5000 gallons of rain water in our system. I'm posting videos of the system build now.
Great video. At 05:12 the first flush looks like it allows some water to get past cos of that collar... I wonder if there's a first flush without that collar around the diverter
I mean, before the diverter has filled up, if there's a slow flow of rainwater coming in, that collar will let some water past... I'm gonna look for a first flush which has that float collar inside the bottom of the T , not up in the horizontal part of the T
This is how it was designed from the manufacturer. I have never had an issue with it.
Amen brother I totally agree. And I love your dog in the background doing that’s herding ❤
Thank you!
we are locked down again in my country, just before lockdown we got delivered a nice big water tank. I cant wait to get back to the hardware store to get the parts for my rainwater collection. Good tip on the leaf eater, I will look into one of these.
Sorry to hear that. Hope your captors let you out of prison soon so that you can purchase the items you need.
We have 5000 gallons of rain water in our system. I'm posting videos of the system build now. Hopefully it'll give you some ideas.
Excellent! Thank you!
You’re welcome
We have 5000 gallons of rain water in our system. I'm posting videos of the system build now.
Thank you. That was wonderfully easy to understand.
You’re welcome
Thanks!
Thank you so much Lori!
I really love it. Where is the part 2 of the install with the pump?
Thank you. Still working on part 2. Have not had the money for the pump yet. Coming soon.
@@CountryLivingExperience thank you
Really surprising. I subscribed to Joe first a long time back. Didn't know you are friends.
Everyone is my friend ;-) We have talked online. I have never met him in person.
Slip joint for p traps under sink
Wondering where you were able to buy all the supplies to hook up the water flush system?
I was able, yes. They are all listed in the video description.
This may be a little off the subject, but it is your water just fron crop and if so, what will you do for regular drinking water for the home in case of some disaster? I am just trying to figure something out for myself. My property isn't as large as yours.
It will be for both eventually. I will have several sources of water for drinking including the rainwater.
@@CountryLivingExperience will you be able to give lesson on this? I hope so.
Where I live we have too much water and flooding can occur. I like dryer weather.
It is wet here in the Spring. We have a monsoon season....lol.
Can you please link the pump you used to get the rainwater inside your house plumbed in?
The pump has not worked well. I am about to get a new one. I don't recommend the one I got.
Doesn’t the overflow need to be lower than the inlet?
It is. By about an inch.
Our overflow is at the top of our tanks. We have 5000 gallons of rain water in our system. I'm posting videos of the system build now.
Once you got this all up and running for a year, id send a sample in to get tested.
Hi I’m wondering if you filter the rain collected water and then run it thru a burpie to deem it fit for human consumption?
Hello. I don't filter it yet. I will some day. What is a burpie?
I think they meant Berkey!
So, should the overflow pipe be slightly higher than the inlet pipe?
If so, by how much?
Same level is fine.
Is better to leave the water tank above or below ground ? 3 people are here have ponds and a geologist told me that there water. I keep getting the run around
I did have on gentleman told me it would cost me $30,000.00 to $40,000.00. The zoning department said it had to be 75 feet. Don't know how far they need to drill. It is too expensive.
They make tanks for both applications. I like having ours above ground.
@@CountryLivingExperience thanks
Aren't you on the Lisa Haven show on UA-cam?
I don't know who that it.
I don't have a well. Who do i contact to put in one of those water tanks. Yes, and i do have neighbors around me. I don't wantbanybof the to savatoch my water system.
Rainharvesting association no longer recommends first flush, they require maintenance which no one ever does. They fill up with debris and no one every empties
Ever empties it. Look it up
That does not mean you shouldn't put one in.
I came to the same conclusion on our system. Posting videos of our system now.
@11:16 take a peak under your kitchen sink and youll probably see one
Don't waste your money on such projects.
Check your water bill to see what you are paying per gallon of water. It's probably less than $0.05. It will take decades for this to collect enough water to recover your cost.
Wondering where you were able to buy all the supplies to hook up the water flush system?
All the parts are listed in the video description. Here are some of them.....
Blue Mountain Co. Rainwater Harvest Parts:
Leaf Eater: amzn.to/3F49NxR
First Flush:amzn.to/3zRM28d
Over Flow: amzn.to/2ZMHWC8
Tank Level Guage: amzn.to/3CWWbmb