No, becasue there might be times when we need the water for the garden. Our idea was seasonal manual switching.
Mary
No, becasue there might be times when we need the water for the garden. Our idea was seasonal manual switching.
Mary
Yes, that's a great advantage in very hard water areas. Ours isn't bad but it would still be beneficial.
Mary
What difference does it make whether you use it in the bog or the garden? It is all mains water saved. If you run out, then you use mains for the garden as well. You won't use any more water and you may even use less, as the water levels will run lower and you can take greater advantage of any summer thunderstorms.
Christian.
I have worked inside the Elan Valley Aquaduct and the walls are thick with peat. There are not many steel/iron pipes in the aquaduct. They are mainly cut & cover brick lined up to shoulder height and concrete tops. Steel Pipes where it crosses river valleys etc.
The water when it arrives at Frankley is black with peat. Amazing how clean they get it.
Clostridium perfringens
Andy
? We don't have a bog garden ...
We'd rather use rainwater on the garden.
I don't understand that last sentence either but I'm not prepared to argue our case, I'm not trying to persuade anyone else about the benefit.
Mary
OK, summer drought conditions after a month or two. Two scenarios:
Now a thunderstorm breaks and dumps heavy rain down, enough to restore your tank.
Basically, by using it for everything, you will conceivably reduce your water usage over a system that you turn off for some purposes.
Christian.
We've got one. Tastes great, just ignore the reports from the council about the cauliforms.
cheers, clive
TPTB wouldn't know if we drank rainwater. It's happened before, might well again. Some mains supplies really are awful, ours is pretty good.
Mary
"Coliform" as in E. Coli, not cauliforms as in cauliflowers.
:o)
|> |On 10 Sep, |> | Dave Fawthrop wrote: |> | |> |> If the washing water is over 72 deg C when used |> | |> |Most but not all |> | |> |> pathogenic bugs will be killed. |>
|> Which *pathogenic* bacteria will survive 72 deg C? |> -- |> Dave Fawthrop | |Clostridium perfringens
Only when spores.
You expect Clostridium perfringens spores in a *water tank*?
I think we can be certain that its high enough to kill most but not all bugs. A bug breeding swamp, not all bugs killed then I'm eating off it? No thanks, not for me. Have used rainwater in the past for this but would not choose it today :)
NT
Why install a system that doesnt pay its way when you could install one that does? The answer is just inability to design.
NT
Chris
That depends on the machine type and setting
Not neccesarily - I was just being pedantic, although as we are talking rainwater presumably harvested from roofs, and exposed to windborne and bird deposited material, I guess you could imagine a mechanism.
Andy
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