Nice video and explanation. I also want to catch my rainwater but I am thinking of diverting all the down spouts to a two-tank system instead of having multiple smaller tanks. A "cleaner" tank then overflowing the clean water into the 5k/10k ''storage" tank. Of course each down spout will have the leaf catchment filter to reduce all the much from entering the cleaner tank, but the cleaner tank will just be a small 500 liter tank anyway (for easy cleaning). this design will mean I will need a lot of 110mm pipe and making ditches for said pipes towards the cleaner tank.
Thats sounds great, similar to a grease trap tank. Possibly adding a baffle/divider in the middle of the cleaning tank will help prevent sludge move to the second tank when the first tank is full.
Excellent video presentation! Thank you! I added a second first-flush (with a filter cut from a piece of nylon mesh -- you can also use cheese cloth), attached to the wall a few inches lower than the first one; it's the second one that empties onto my tank screen. The second first-flush catches even more dirt, pollen and grit. Cheers! -- Old Matt in Texas
This is one of the best explanations of how, and why to do these very specific things. Thanks for the great video I’m now subscribing. I’m about to move to an off grid location in MO and I’m going to have to set up a system like this to have any water at all so this is extremely helpful.
Fine as long as you only have one downpipe going into your system. I have around 10 on two large roofs. Leaf eaters are fine. But first flush on each one? What would you do?
Do you mean the collector pipe that has the ball inside and catches all the dirty water? or the pipe that feeds water form the gutter into the top of the rainhead / leaf catcher?
Hi Audrey, you could install a set of water filters on the outlet side of your pump. Depending on what you want to do with the water, you could install a single stage sediment filter, a two stage filter (sediment + Carbon block filter) or a three stage filter (two sediment filters and one carbon block filter). Here is a video about filters ua-cam.com/video/layYqEYAiH8/v-deo.htmlsi=hr3cCZo0H2nEZJzX and here is another ua-cam.com/video/DermXBtJMfI/v-deo.htmlsi=UM33puqwRi8Zr9JR Hope this helps.
Nice video and explanation. I also want to catch my rainwater but I am thinking of diverting all the down spouts to a two-tank system instead of having multiple smaller tanks. A "cleaner" tank then overflowing the clean water into the 5k/10k ''storage" tank. Of course each down spout will have the leaf catchment filter to reduce all the much from entering the cleaner tank, but the cleaner tank will just be a small 500 liter tank anyway (for easy cleaning). this design will mean I will need a lot of 110mm pipe and making ditches for said pipes towards the cleaner tank.
Thats sounds great, similar to a grease trap tank. Possibly adding a baffle/divider in the middle of the cleaning tank will help prevent sludge move to the second tank when the first tank is full.
Excellent video presentation! Thank you!
I added a second first-flush (with a filter cut from a piece of nylon mesh -- you can also use cheese cloth), attached to the wall a few inches lower than the first one; it's the second one that empties onto my tank screen. The second first-flush catches even more dirt, pollen and grit.
Cheers!
-- Old Matt in Texas
Thanks for showing and explaining so well. I never fully grasped the first flush set-up before watching your video.
You're welcome. Glad I was able to help.
This is one of the best explanations of how, and why to do these very specific things. Thanks for the great video I’m now subscribing. I’m about to move to an off grid location in MO and I’m going to have to set up a system like this to have any water at all so this is extremely helpful.
Thanks very much. Best of luck with your off-grid living... exciting times ahead. Let us know how thing are going as you build your system.
@@GrantBurton will do, thanks brother.
Insightful video
Hi David, thanks.
Great video bro! I'd like to install this on the farm.
Hi Dale, thanks. Yeah... having your own pumped water backup is really nice.
Fine as long as you only have one downpipe going into your system. I have around 10 on two large roofs. Leaf eaters are fine. But first flush on each one? What would you do?
If you don't have the height for a larger collection pipe I guess you could always have two in series?
Do you mean the collector pipe that has the ball inside and catches all the dirty water? or the pipe that feeds water form the gutter into the top of the rainhead / leaf catcher?
How do you fix dirty water coming from your tank
Hi Audrey, you could install a set of water filters on the outlet side of your pump. Depending on what you want to do with the water, you could install a single stage sediment filter, a two stage filter (sediment + Carbon block filter) or a three stage filter (two sediment filters and one carbon block filter). Here is a video about filters ua-cam.com/video/layYqEYAiH8/v-deo.htmlsi=hr3cCZo0H2nEZJzX and here is another ua-cam.com/video/DermXBtJMfI/v-deo.htmlsi=UM33puqwRi8Zr9JR
Hope this helps.