Step 1 - IBC Rainwater Harvesting System - Cleaning and Wrapping Tank
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2014
- This is step 1 in building this rainwater harvesting system. First acquire a food grade IBC tank, remove tank from cage, clean tank with soap and water, wrap tank in black plastic, place tank back in cage, and cut hole for lid. Step 2 is coming! The IBC tanks I bought off craigslist for $100 each, delivered. The black plastic you can find at Home Depot or Lowes. Thanks for watching!
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Excellent instructional video! Breaks things down Barney style. Well done. Looking forward to the next videos.
Read the comment but think painting would be easier, i painted the IBC i use for aquaponics, i got a gallon of mismatched acrylic(have to use acrylic so it adheres to the plastic) for 10 dollars, a gallon will do about 4 totes.
Thanks for sharing, the video is paced really well and easy to follow. I'll be starting my own next week. Looking forward to the rest of the videos!
Thanks, Step 2 will be up shortly!
Blake, I am not sure if the wrap will loose color after one season, I have not had any problems with the wrap so far. However my system has only been in place for a year or so. In my opinion wrapping it twice would work and it should still fit in the cage.
2:55 If plastic foil is 6 Mils thick, its 0,15 mm (milimeters) thick.
Mine was a torx 40 and I didn't have to cut the plastic arches off. I just rotated the metal bars over them.
I read these lost color and thus allowed sunlight in after one season. has yours lasted? is the solution to just wrap twice? But then would it fit in cage?
How do you get paint out of it .we purchased one that was used for paint and we are trying to use it to water our plants. Also how do you open the bottom valve I'm not sure and I don't want to break it . thank you love your video
Marie: My first thought would be to trade/sell it for a tank that does not have paint. My other thought is to use paint thinner or gas to remove the paint. Also I know there can be many different types of paint some water based and some not. I do not know if my suggestion will work but hopefully it get you going in the right direction. Your concern about opening the valve is an easy fix. The handle should be pointing to the right when in the closed position. Just pull it towards you to open the valve. Now the handle should be pointing at you. In the video link below at minute 16:00 I open and close the valves. You can not see me actually opening and closing the valves. Watch that part, the tank valves are closed. Take not of the position of the handle there, then go back a few minutes in the video to the 13:40 mark you can see how the tank valves look when they are open.
Thanks for the comment:)
IBC Rainwater Harvesting System Update #2
Mr.Kaminski, I love your IBC totes videos. How do you measure the amount of water on your IBC totes?
ReallyI don't, Ill just take a cap off and look in there
After this, you might want to add a roof. - it just keeps going and going. I've found the plastic deteriorates relatively quickly. I put a sloped, shingled panel on top of mine since disassembly and re-wrapping is a huge PITA (if not impossible [unions or couplers were not used]). Manageable sizes are helpful because they do get heavy quickly, and you might need to open the cap.
+Lou Fazio 👍
I've have mine wrapped like this fellow for 15 years. I have no plastic failures at all. I'd say IMHO that this technique works well enough. I've wrapped one tote in .060 EPDM (RUBBER ROOFING MATERIAL) from left over rolls of roofing rubber, since I was a roofer. This works great too, but more expensive than Polly. Good day.
Any reason why you suggest using Dawn? Dawn is very strongly perfumed, stronger than any other soap I have used. If I use it to wash plastics, that smell is very hard to get out of the plastic. If it's something I drink out of, it will take weeks and many washings before it gets back to where I can't taste it.
+AgentFriday No particular reason. There may be better soaps out there, but that is what I had a the moment.
You have to filter the heck out of rain water to make it potable. A little soap residue or fragrance is the least of your worries. Asphalt from the roof, rain falling through airborne soot, bacteria in the gutters pose a far greater risk.
Some people call all sodas "Coke". Some people call every tissue "Kleenex"... Some people call every dish soap "Dawn".
Can you provide some insight insofar as freezing / cracking is concerned? Our winters can sometimes get below 0 degrees (F). Would additional insulation (eg., styrofoam) fit inside the plastic, or do you have other ways of mitigating freezing? I've considered partially burying our totes, but we have a couple spots where that's not very feasible. If one were to create an insulated cover that went over the cage, would that be sufficient for blocking light? -Thanks
+JoshDoesMusic burying a tank would be the best solution for freezing. Don't bury these totes, make sure to buy a tank made for burying
JoshDoesMusic I'd say you're going to have to drain them. It's not like you're going to get any appreciable amount of water anyway. You have to play just right to get the last few day out of if. Also, be aware that just because it duos below freezing at night, the whole tank is not going to freeze. You will have to have lines drained though. I've found I can get by for about month longer after this time had come. Don't bother thinking about heating it; you'll be way past it in cost. - unless maybe you have no other water source.
What about insulation so it does not freeze in winter, because in my design of water storage, i have a tank Overground then it overflows to some underground tanks, i want some water on the surface for my garden, so it does not have to get pumped up again.
I live in Houston, it rarely if ever freezes here.
They make a black electric heating blanket to go over these IBC tanks.
Whereabouts do you live? What kind of rainfall do you get?
could you just use a paint or some kind of coating instead of the wrap? I'm asking because I'm looking in to building my own system.
You could paint it. They also make covers at metalgardenbeds.com. Will save you a ton of time and will look MUCH better.
Thank you for the help
Hi, I would like to know why you used 6 mill sheet. Is thicker better or is 6 mill enough?
Mario Handal You could not go wrong with a thicker plastic, I choose 6 mill because it was easy to find and thick enough to block the sunlight. Have you watched the video with the covers? They help the tanks look much better and saves you time as well. Compared to the 6 mill plastic they are heavier duty and more durable. Here is the link...ua-cam.com/video/QM9Jlq-EzB4/v-deo.html
Trenton Kaminski , Thanks for the advise and link.
can you spray paint the plastic instead of wrapping?
As long as you block the sunlight you can do it whatever way you like.
Plastic paint is more costly than black plastic.
can i paint it black instead?
Jun: Paint should work fine, it may be a little messy however. The black wrap was a personal preferance, the main goal here is to block the sunlight to prevent algae from growing.
Based on your excellent videos, I created my own system with 2 totes. Here's a question for you: the water coming out of them has recently begun to have an interesting smell to it, any thoughts as to what could cause it? I have a first flush system, totes are wrapped in black plastic, and they are food grade containers. Thanks!
Great to hear!
+txboyindenver not sure about the smell. Any build up on the bottom of the tank?
Could you not paint with a dark blue or black paint more easily?
I do not imagine it would be easier, I thought about paint. Here are my reasons for not painting.
1.Paint is messy,time consuming,requires more tools if you spray the paint on, and is difficult to remove if you wanted to remove it.
2.The wrap is much easier to locate for purchase (Home Depot or Lowes), requires less tools, time, and skills to complete, and can be removed/replaced easily if need be.
Plastic paint that lasts is expensive. Rarely, if ever, do you see painted plastic in the real world. The color of the plastic in your car, in your kids toys, of your keyboard is how it came out of the injection mold at the factory. Most paints won't properly stick to most plastics. Try painting your Tuperware sometime.
can i just paint it with black paint instead of wraping?
+youniverse traveller yes