Water restrictions and car washing

[AJ]

I have just commisioned my 4000 litre water tank and pump for car washing, lawn watering ad general watery stuff. It's been full for a month now. If you have space for one, I highly recommend it. Plus, with the NSW Water rebate, it only costs ~$1600 including pump! Excellent value I reckon.

we recently received our 5470 litre tank after a 7 WEEK wait, paid up front for it too, it's crazy up here atm, the tank suppliers can't keep up!..........the next trick was finding someone to do all the pipey bits for it ..............got a quote back the other day, once i recover from my dead faint & sell one of my kidneys on ebay, i'll give him a ring

[AJ]

unless of course there is someone on this board in brizzy who is adept at such things & we could do a \"dodgy day\"

[JBT]

Shouldn't be too hard to plumb the water into it and out via the overflow as a dodgy day job if it's located near an existing downpipe AJ.

[AJ]

actually, there's gunna be 4 downpipes feeding into it JB

[CT]

Do your own piping, it's very simple. The trip is to make sure you plan it out well, purchase all the right stuff, and get stuck into it! My overflow piping took 18 metres and I have two pipes feeding into the top of the tank. At the moment though, it's full and my back yard is under 3 inches of water!!!!!

Greywater should be fed directly underground if you can. Something to do with the phosphates and scientific stuff from memory. Greywater can be stored if you run it through a catalyst setup which is a little exxy again. I was going to feed all grey water into underhouse tanks and then filter and catalyse it for garden use only. But then I realised I really quite hate gardening and couldn't be stuffed. There was also some thoughs that it shouldn't be used on edible gardens but I haven't looked into where that is of late. However, I am putting another 4000 litres worth of storage off the house in a few months time. The current tank goes straight off my shed. I have a little experience with rainwater harvesting and tanks as I worked on the team that setup the BlueScope Water tank business a couple of years ago.

[AJ]

thanks for the advice CT .............i'm actually a no hoper when it comes to that sort of work ......went with the \"cashed up bogan\" as they are called these days.........& he is a GOOD tradey, did a fantastic job that looks neat, carted away all the crap with him & left the place how he found it ..............i've been up on the roof today cleaning all the crap out of our gutters ..........we're now harvesting rainwater from 4 downpipes...............it's a very sweet sound hearing water pounding into the tank

[AJ]

BTW, we haven't gone the greywater route at all......i couldn't give a f'k about the grass, it either grows or dies