Roofing, gutters and water tanks.

.. and do a deal with your tankless neighbour to poach HIS roof for water, as well! It’d be do-able in a place like Gungahlin.

Wherever you locate your tanks, keep in mind how much of your roof runoff will be feeding the tanks. Look at your roof and its faces, where the downpipes are and what faces are feeding them, and what room you have on the walls for diversions. You may want to redirect a couple of down pipes to your tanks to maximise rain capture, even if it means long traverses. How much rain capture you have makes a huge difference to how useful and reliable your tanks will be.

harley said :

Don’t make them from Rats. Stainless Steel is probably OK, but expensive.

And there’s your answer: Rats are bloody cheap at the moment.

Thanks all for the comments, My property is reasonably flat so the placement shouldn’t be too much of an issue, but a good point.

Great advice on using the hose to fill it up too!! Love it, great idea 😉

Trunking symbols said :

I had a water tank installed but it’s a real hassle getting the hose up far enough to fill it. I’m going to get the plumbers in to install a pipe from the water supply to keep it filled.

Gold!

I know I am probably stating the obvious here, but the one tip I would suggest is to ensure that the tank is at the highest, and least obtrusive place on your property the amount of tanks I have seen installed at the lowest point is simply crazy considering you need to power a pump to push the water up hill to get it to whatever you plan to use it for.

That and the Romans used the 1.5 degree rule for their aquifers and they still work.

JC said :

What the?

Do they not have sarcasm on Betelgeuse?

Trunking symbols said :

I had a water tank installed but it’s a real hassle getting the hose up far enough to fill it. I’m going to get the plumbers in to install a pipe from the water supply to keep it filled.

What the?

Installed a tank/pump when doing a resto on the house. This coincided with the start of the drought. We have a very water frugal garden, and use only this tank water.

The tank is 5000 litres, and in retrospect I should have installed twice this capacity.

I had a water tank installed but it’s a real hassle getting the hose up far enough to fill it. I’m going to get the plumbers in to install a pipe from the water supply to keep it filled.