Installing Rain Water Collection

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April Wilkerson

April Wilkerson

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If you live in the country, you need every spare drop of water. Harvested Rain Solutions made the job easy and I was able to walk you through the process.
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@bartnadeau
@bartnadeau 4 жыл бұрын
We live in south central Texas, outside of San Antonio. We purchased a lot in the hill country and basically live on top of a hill. We have always been interested in green technology, and are even more so today. As part of the construction of the house we added 28 solar panels and water catchment. We have a similar 30k tank and feed all the water captured on the 4,028 sq ft of metal roof into the tank. In fact our roof was specifically designed to maximize water capture since we knew we were going to do that from the start. We had it designed it that way because, as you know, the well water is very hard and very expensive to drill for here. We intended to NOT use well water in our house because of what hard water would do to the plumbing system and fixtures. So our water catchment system included a filtration package that makes our captured water potable. It includes 3 canisters mounted in the garage that has 2 filter and 1 UV. The canisters filter at the 5 and 50 micron level and the UV bulb will kill any bacterial elements left after filtration. I change these filters 3 times a year which is outside spec for the filters but I think is fine because it’s only filtering rain water and not ground water. We’ve lived in the house for 5 years and the system has been a godsend. It has never been drained since the rainfall (roughly 35 in annually) keeps it full. [knock on wood]. The toilets and sinks don’t get the rings along the water line as you get from even city water but would definitely get from well water. Another factor for us is the taste; we have become water snobs because our filtered rain water tastes better than any bottled water we could buy. We often take a large bottle of water with us when we travel. Cost and installation: this would be the biggest turn off for most folks because it cost over $35k. One of the biggest reasons for that is that we live on a hill so consequently in order to find a place for the tank a wall had to be built to make a place large enough to make a level spot. Also the hill has little if any soil on it so the build site was excavated down to limestone bedrock requiring that the pipes from the house to the tank had to be cut in to solid rock!!! Another difference between your install and hours is that our pump is not inside the tank. It is located in a small shed specific built to host the pump and pressure tank. I recommend doing it this way in case there is a problem with either piece of equipment you don’t have to mess with getting it out of the tank to work on it. Without the pressure tank you basically have an on-demand system so every time you turn on the water it will run the pump to provide the water. With the pressure tank it only starts the pump when the pressure falls below a specific psi. Side note: as we went through financing for our build we discovered that we couldn’t get the money for the construction without a ‘primary’ water source which water catchment is NOT!!! So we ended up having to drill a well also. Another point to note is that if you use you use your catchment system for irrigation of any sort don’t filter it because it takes out all the nutrients the plants need. We ended up segregating the inside and outside water by putting filtered in the house and all outside water as ‘well’ water. OBTW we also have a pool. In our initial planning we were going with a 40k tank to support all our water needs. When we were forced to drill a well we backed off to 30k tank. Sorry for the long post but I hope someone gets something out of it. B
@CqureWaterTexas
@CqureWaterTexas 4 жыл бұрын
Very nice post - I love hearing about your experience and think many others will gain from your sharing it. You might be interested to know that the submersible pump April has can be removed from the tank in under 30 seconds, and if service is needed can be replaced with a different one in 3-4 minutes, all without entering the tank. Unfortunately the pump setup wasn't in the final "cut" for the video, but submersible pumps are extremely reliable due to the very benign environment and the fact that they're built to be installed in wells where they'd really be a pain if they failed.
@stoneholme6743
@stoneholme6743 4 жыл бұрын
What a surreal experience! I live in Australia and we've just finished putting in this exact same configuration from Pioneer including size, color (zincalume), and even using a six inch water filling system. Thought I might mention a couple of things. The rubble around the base of the tank does help prevent the sand from being washed away, but it's not 100% effective; the real reason I put it in was to prevent burrowing animals like rabbits and hares from digging the sand away from underneath the tank and potentially causing a liner rupture. Don't know what area around your workshop is like, but if you get a lot of leaf dropping or the wind brings in a lot of debris you might want to consider placing a metal mesh over your gutters so you're not putting as much detritus into your tank. Next, if you do decide that to make this a source for potable water (which we do) you might want to remember the water is not fluoridated so select your toothpaste accordingly. Finally, if you put in a tankless electric water heating system like HeatWorks it depends upon the water having a certain electrical resistance in order to work. Rain water will not provide the necessary resistance. Sorry for the length of the comment. . .
@PBMS123
@PBMS123 4 жыл бұрын
You'll be set for a bushfire then.
@jazzmc5322
@jazzmc5322 4 жыл бұрын
@@PBMS123 not funny.
@fireflyfilms6100
@fireflyfilms6100 4 жыл бұрын
@@jazzmc5322 he would have is own water to fight a fire at a geographically challenged property. That is smart!
@joshuapreusser2265
@joshuapreusser2265 4 жыл бұрын
@@fireflyfilms6100 Exactly, even if an onsite water tank isn't sufficient on it's own to stop a fire it can help buy time for additional assistance to arrive. Of course depending on the amount of water collected (and propensity for evaporation) at some point making a pond/lake might be the cheaper option.
@Satya2btrue
@Satya2btrue 4 жыл бұрын
John Fuller in central Victoria where I live we have to keep 10,000 litres specifically for fire fighting. We put in a similar size and for professional installation the cost was under aud $8,000. The water is beautiful and we have no leaf matter to be concerned with so just drink 8t as is.
@BillyLapTop
@BillyLapTop 4 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in the '50s, my grandparents had a small country gas station with an Artesian well that smelled of sulphur. They drank and cooked with it. I stuck to Coke and Pepsi when I visited them (they had a little convenience store built into it and lived over the top of the station). My grandfather used a rainwater capture system for the use of nearly pure water for customer's car batteries. I learned the purpose of that 55 gallon drum with a leader from the overhead gutter feeding it one day, when during a family picnic in the backyard of the station, I deposited a eaten corn cob into the barrel. Later he spied it and became quite upset, yelling at us kids for what happened. My grandparents built the station when at the age of 70, Grandpa was basically fired from his mechanics job at the local silk mill in upstate NY for refusing to retire. They kept the station until his early 80's and then decided it was time to take it easy. He came to this country from Italy, through Ellis Island in 1903. He believed in the work ethic to the max. When his health began to fail, he refused medical treatment, saying the doctors could not make him young again. My uncle, in my presence, implored him to take care of himself and that he had some years left. Grandpa responded with an expletive and said, "What the hell for, I can't work anymore." He was gone several days later. This is my rainwater capture memory.
@anthonygasparini1734
@anthonygasparini1734 4 жыл бұрын
"The Greatest Generation" God Bless them!
@silvergrizzly316
@silvergrizzly316 4 жыл бұрын
BillyLapTop, ooOOOH how I remember that sulfur water, kinda smelt like rotten eggs too, lol. My Grandaddy came here from Italy also, didn't know what "rest" was. Worked in the coal mines his entire life, everyday, raised 8 kids, unfortunately he passed when my dad was 4yrs old from black lung. A die'n breed my friend. Jay.
@glennlawrie-smith8570
@glennlawrie-smith8570 4 жыл бұрын
I guess it was both a blessing and a curse that he went that fast. I love the story.
@johnmanning4577
@johnmanning4577 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your story. I grew up in a small Northern California town and can envision a lot of the scenes you paint. I love listening to family history.
@jeeves6490
@jeeves6490 4 жыл бұрын
That is the saddest thing I've ever heard. Life is more than work, much, much more.
@SSBailey77845
@SSBailey77845 4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! We’re in the Brenham area and we were in the process of building our home on 10 acres when the Bastrop and Montgomery fires hit. I’m a pool builder so I incorporated a plumbing system to utilize the pool water in our pool to fight a local fire that might threaten our home. That system would rely on a gasoline powered pump in the event that the power grid was interrupted by the fire. I considered but had to defer a rainwater harvesting system primarily because we are on a well and, as you know, budgeting concerns require hard decisions. In any event, I think your system is brilliant and provides all the flexibility one could ever anticipate. Well done!
@danwesterberg3956
@danwesterberg3956 4 жыл бұрын
I 've been watching your channel since the beginning when you did this part time. I just noticed today you have over a million subscribers. thats a huge ,and well deserved accomplishment .congrats to you
@brianhubbard6423
@brianhubbard6423 4 жыл бұрын
Yes I do have a rain harvest system. My system is a underground storage system, the tanks are five ten thousand gallons plastic tanks. I have a 100'X300' Barndominium built by Morton building's and I love it. I use the water for non potable uses and as a storage system for my Township Fire Departments for a water resource. I live on two hundred acres, one hundred in woods and one hundred in field so it's a safety issue for me. I give the fire departments access to the system if needed. Keep up the great videos. God bless you and your family.
@brianhubbard6423
@brianhubbard6423 4 жыл бұрын
@Aeternalis Armentarius Just over sixty thousand dollars, but I get a tax rite off from the Township and County for ten years. At the end of the ten years I will have spent approximately thirty five thousand dollars for the system.
@bills9963
@bills9963 4 жыл бұрын
Massive system! In New Zealand we collect rain where the house is not able to be connected to a mains water system, but generally only 5000 gallons. We drink that water with no processing. As long as you ensure that your roof is free of dead birds, excessive leaves, etc, and the tank is not open to similar contamination then it's fine to drink. I've never been sick in over 20 years of drinking roof water.
@CqureWaterTexas
@CqureWaterTexas 4 жыл бұрын
Some of my neighbors drink straight from the tank, and so do I when the UV system gets knocked offline in storms. We have big tanks because we like to fully supply the house for up to 10 months with low rainfall.
@johntotten4872
@johntotten4872 4 жыл бұрын
2 reasons I clicked on the video 1. April rocks 2. Big ass water tank I am scratching my head as to how some states can make it illegal to collect rain water on your own property. Great video April, thanks for sharing with us.
@sitnslide
@sitnslide 4 жыл бұрын
I live on the Big Island (Hawaii), where many areas have no piped in water. I have a 10K gallon catchment system, filters, UV light. We get 10-12 feet of rain per year in my area. Unlimited, "free", potable water.
@royallclark6331
@royallclark6331 4 жыл бұрын
Good video April. I live on the eastside of the Big Island of Hawai'i, and a great many on island do rely on harvesting rainwater. Most are only 10k gallon systems as it does usually rain enough to keep the tanks full except for the occasional dry spell, and at that point you will see trucks with 4k gallon tanks of potable water running around to fill tanks of families too big or not conserving enough. It is a known fact, the more girls in a family, the more water is used! No, just teasing!! LOL. I put my system in by myself when I built my home. The tank is 18' 6" by 5' 4" and the rain is collected off of the roof of a 1400 sq. ft. house. I have a Grundfos tankless pump at the house that pulls the water from the tank and through two, 10" filter housings (one with a 5 micron string filter the other a carbon block filter) and then through a ultraviolet light sanitizer unit. With this system I have some of the best tasting water there is. When I installed this system 15 years ago, the whole things was $4500.00 without labor.
@MJHanneman82
@MJHanneman82 4 ай бұрын
I’m here with ya in Mt. View. Have a 14k tank but want to get a new one. Do you have any recommendations?
@PDX53
@PDX53 4 жыл бұрын
That's a fantastic addition to anyone's property. I saw an extremely novel system for rainwater collection / storage within a city & it was a swimming pool size tank under a new home. The interior was sealed with epoxy & it used a venting system to eliminate any condensation under the house. It collected water via gutters but also via a permeable driveway made of open, diamond pattern driveway pavers.
@BoomerKeith1
@BoomerKeith1 4 жыл бұрын
When I see an April video like this, I think "I have ZERO interest in this subject", then I end up watching the video and wishing it were longer!
@AprilWilkerson
@AprilWilkerson 4 жыл бұрын
: ) Aw that's great to hear.
@henryphelps3590
@henryphelps3590 4 жыл бұрын
Beauty with a beautiful narrator's voice with a Southern draw you in ! With the intelligence to teach us old dogs a few new tricks !!
@AndrewMcQuillen
@AndrewMcQuillen 4 жыл бұрын
@@AprilWilkerson Me too Keith, it was really interesting but imposible for me to use in my garden. the tubs on the down pipes are possible though :0)
@kevinwest4488
@kevinwest4488 4 жыл бұрын
perhaps friend..but what i like about her videos...is all options included..she does say...it like it as it is..depends on your location i expect...shes in texas...im in washington state...types of soil..are different here. as well as drainage laws..she does provide an good template to follow.
@kevinwest4488
@kevinwest4488 4 жыл бұрын
i like what she is providing.
@tutekohe1361
@tutekohe1361 4 жыл бұрын
Where I live in rural Western Australia, rainwater is the only supply of Potable water available, so all houses and sheds have rainwater harvesting and multiple water storage tanks. It is fine to drink, provided tanks are kept closed up against birds and insects. We only get about 300mm (12”) of rain a year, but that is sufficient for all our household needs.
@biggredd2008
@biggredd2008 4 жыл бұрын
As soon as you said Australia in you comment for some strange reason and not on purpous I continued reading your comment in an Australian accent. God bless you guys. Half of my family lives there.
@GarthR
@GarthR 4 жыл бұрын
so am i lol rain tanks is all the water we have tastes heaps better than town water too
@yess_fish
@yess_fish 4 жыл бұрын
You might get annoyed comments about how you hired contractors , but I REALLY appreciate you showing us "hey this is beyond a DIY wheelhouse, even for a high-tier builder/creator like me," AND still taking the time to make a video and educate us about the project. 🤘🏻
@AprilWilkerson
@AprilWilkerson 4 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you still enjoyed watching it!
@kinkjarfold3816
@kinkjarfold3816 4 жыл бұрын
@@AprilWilkerson Oh, yeah, Jess is right. Very informative to watch and way beyond a single DIYer.
@Zhahn-Pam
@Zhahn-Pam 4 жыл бұрын
Hi April, this is what we call a catchment system. I live in Hawaii on the big island, this is just normal for those of us who do not live in the city of Hilo. Actually, it is the only way that we can get water for our households.
@tommiestrydom973
@tommiestrydom973 4 жыл бұрын
We've been using rain water tanks her in Australia for many years now. I've not paid a water bill in years. All new houses here in Aus must have rain water tanks. I have two. It's also mandatory to have one tank full at all times to be used in fire fighting. As you know we have a bit of a fire issue here at the moment
@darthvader232003
@darthvader232003 4 жыл бұрын
I use to work for EGR/ EGR Water in Qld, I use to make alot of the poly tanks, small as 1000L to 22,500 L tanks, back in 2011 when they made it mandatory for newly built houses/units to have rain water tanks.
@farmer1774
@farmer1774 4 жыл бұрын
I actually build these tanks
@sharons9367
@sharons9367 4 жыл бұрын
DIY Projects thank you 🇦🇺
@timpindell8178
@timpindell8178 4 жыл бұрын
You would be surprised to know that these are not legal across the U.S.
@frankcar1965
@frankcar1965 4 жыл бұрын
@@timpindell8178 It is legal in ALL states with restrictions, like you can only collect from your roof and hard surfaces, you can't redirect a stream or river, so look it up Einstein and get educated. worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/states-where-it-is-illegal-to-collect-rainwater
@lonnarheaj
@lonnarheaj 4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video - thank you for sharing this!!! A few years ago we had a “garage mahal” built, and ever since we have discussed how perfect the metal roof would be for rain water collection. We have a rain barrel, but 55 gallons of water is used up quickly watering plants. Your video has encouraged us to finally seriously check into getting a lithe rain collection system! We live on rolling land, with the workshop-of-our-dreams at a high point; so installing the gravity fed water lines should work well. We live in East Texas, so sometimes we get a lot of rain, and sometimes we don’t get nearly enough. It would be great to store up water during those times of plenty. Our tap and well water is very hard too, so “soft” pure rainwater would be a wonderful change. Our water supplier also chlorinates our tap water so aggressively it kills plants. We have a well to water plants and supply the livestock, but we’re stuck with tap water at the house due to changes made long ago. Neither the well water nor the municipal water supply are palatable, and they’re both extremely ripe with mineral nastyness. 🥴 Thanks for posting this!!! You have given us great ideas. Enjoy your new water supply!
@frankmakes
@frankmakes 4 жыл бұрын
Nice tank April! Thanks for the link. I need a 45,000gl tank to catch all the water off my shop during the winter to use during our dry summer.
@Everythingisgoingtobealright
@Everythingisgoingtobealright 4 жыл бұрын
I’d be willing to bet your tank will be a touch more unique. Perhaps a few hundred large cedar logs glued together and turned in a giant home made lathe. Or maybe not.
@dennispope8160
@dennispope8160 4 жыл бұрын
Everythingisgoingtobealright, Frank already has a water tank installed from a few years back. Great video. Entertaining as always.
@jesust1993
@jesust1993 4 жыл бұрын
Will there be an update video on the current tank you have?
@pioneerwatertanksamerica8521
@pioneerwatertanksamerica8521 4 жыл бұрын
PioneerWaterTanksAmerica.com can provide that for you. We operate with a network of suppliers and installers to provide local service. Our office is open Monday - Friday, 7:00a - 5:00p CST to connect you with the closest authorized Pioneer provider/installer to get you a price. We can also provide more information on Pioneer Water Tanks engineering, AQAULINER® Fresh tank liner that is BPA-free and NSF-61 certified for drinking water storage, the Zincalume® Steel tank body or our lines of accessories. Thank you!
@kennethschultz6465
@kennethschultz6465 3 жыл бұрын
Just make 2 30.000 gallon Then you can clean the one when using the other.. Just make a huge spill way in the floor and a Walve.. to spuule silt and Bird drippings out of
@321southtube
@321southtube 4 жыл бұрын
I'm addicted to this channel. Love it all. I always feel motivated and I can do most of this stuff. At the very least....its always interesting and I walk away with more knowledge than at the start. Thanks April...you rock. I'm just a little envious.... Take care
@geckoproductions4128
@geckoproductions4128 4 жыл бұрын
Hi April. My wife and I are both Master Naturalists living on a small ranch out in the Texas Hill Country west of San Antonio. Although I'm a UT Austin grad, I have fallen in with a bunch of Aggies. For those Texans who are not already aware, your county Extension Service is an extremely valuable and FREE (funded by taxpayers) service that I recommend everyone avail themselves of. Anyway, I fell in with the Aggies and soon put in a peach orchard. Problem is, from mid July to early october, little or no rain. We are fortunate to have sweet clear limestone filtered water right out of the ground we use for the house, but I hate to pay to pump it onto my orchard. So we capture rainwater off our metal roof directly into downspout through a screen. The orchard is about six feet below house grade, so buried pipe flows water into two 1500 gallon tanks at orchard.....no moving parts, pumps, or power necessary. Head pressure at tanks pressures hose bibs at bottom of tanks. People have been harvesting rainwater for thousands of years, only recently did we dig holes in the ground and put electric pumps into them. Well that's my 2c.........long live The Republic of Texas!!!
@pioneerwatertanksamerica8521
@pioneerwatertanksamerica8521 4 жыл бұрын
It's true, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Services are the best at providing free public information and resources. They made an entire website dedicated to it (rainwaterharvesting.tamu.edu/) and publish my favorite resource (pioneerwatertanksamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/AgriLifeRainwaterHarvestingManual.pdf). Thank you for bringing them up!
@tfildaed
@tfildaed 4 жыл бұрын
Hi April, we've had a Pioneer tank here in Central Texas the same as yours for more than 10 years, I'd never go back to any other kind of water! Ours is in a potable system that's very easy to maintain. Use that nasty well water for irrigation and drink that wonderful rainwater!
@Kris_at_WhiteOaksFarm
@Kris_at_WhiteOaksFarm 4 жыл бұрын
Nice! Our WV 1890s farmhouse came with a cistern that takes the water off the roof. The collection filter needs to be rebuilt, a project for next summer. I estimate the collection tank at about a thousand gallons. It needs to be flushed and cleaned, again a project for next summer. We use the water for the garden. There's also a shallow well with murky water, in the mudroom, and a 400 ft. deep well with with excellent water. Water is life!
@felixfromnebraska8648
@felixfromnebraska8648 4 жыл бұрын
Great video, April. You have amazed me in your projects around your property. Thanks so much for sharing this experience.
@ketchupy3824
@ketchupy3824 4 жыл бұрын
Great video, April! I love the system & watching the process was absolutely facinating.
@danhubert4074
@danhubert4074 4 жыл бұрын
Please, you must do a follow up video: - Does it work? - Economic benefit? Cost of supply and installation? All the money stuff. - How did you size your tank for your specific property? - One side of the tank base is built up with sand. Can the tank handle settling of the sand? How much settling will it withstand? - Please address how you monitor the tank water level. - Can you show us how you use the water for irrigation, and why you irrigate? Here in New Brunswick, Canada our climate doesn't require us to irrigate. - What maintenance of the system will be required? Liner life expectancy? - Can you also address filtering of the rainwater and bird poop on the roof? Assume gray water usage for the moment. What an excellent video -- except it is wayyy over the top for most of us -- unless the economics make sense. I suspect this was a $60,000 USD installation. If I am in the ballpark, then the economics become doubtful. I recognize that things may be different in TX. Keep up the great videos.
@dmpyron2
@dmpyron2 4 жыл бұрын
My brother-in-law has a 30K gallon system and it's crucial to his house. They have no access to any city water so either rain or having it tankered in are his options. He has a mechanical mesh filtration system and UV as well as a chlorinator, although the chlorine is mostly an inhibitor. He uses three fiberglass tanks ganged in series. He has a roughly 5000 as ft house and a 9000 as ft barn and it's all plumbed in. They use the slightly "sour" well water for toilets, laundry & irrigation but over the last 15 years it's been drilled down another 100 or so feet as the Edwards Aquifer has "dried up". Texas broke out of our five year "extreme drought" last spring but it's been dry this winter.
@Satya2btrue
@Satya2btrue 4 жыл бұрын
In Australia you’d get this tank size for around $8,000 aud.
@danhubert4074
@danhubert4074 4 жыл бұрын
@@Satya2btrue OK -- $8K to purchase the tank + $8K for labour to install + $8K to prepare the base, install roof gutters, and buy piping -- give or take. It looks like a water supply can be very expensive in Texas. I guess that is one reason few people live in the desert.
@sskkuuddrraa
@sskkuuddrraa 4 жыл бұрын
There is no Economic benefit for this household! 101%! Its all about ''its cool to reuse''. Its ok..but its unpractical. I was planing similar on solar panels for my garden..I can run 15+ years for that money. Since I am not hippie..and without freebies..I baled.
@VitorMadeira
@VitorMadeira 4 жыл бұрын
11:00 Well THANK YOU so very much for the metric measure there! That sure helps us here in Europe a lot. GREAT VIDEO THIS WAS! Greetings from Portugal.
@richardmui4745
@richardmui4745 4 жыл бұрын
I'm a huge fan of your videos -- you explain everything in such an easy to digest and concise manner. I love how by the end of your videos, I feel like I have a solid grasp of a lot of the foundational concepts, methodologies, and reasoning. Keep it up!
@petefellwock7778
@petefellwock7778 4 жыл бұрын
I agree with Sooner Keith, been watching April for about a year and just love watching what she gets into and builds. She has a smooth delivery and continues to impress what she grabs by the horns and gets accomplished.
@AisforAwkwardd
@AisforAwkwardd 4 жыл бұрын
The PVC jig they used for the roof panels is one I've made of wood when I'm making a weird platform or flat (I'm a carpenter for theaters) where there's overhang. We call it a whisky stick!
@munenex
@munenex 4 жыл бұрын
Wow. This is an amazing project and climate smart.
@BattlePhrog165
@BattlePhrog165 4 жыл бұрын
April, I love your shop! It's awesome how well its coming together!!!
@alienh1701
@alienh1701 4 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to see the bunker installation video! Awesome build, April! Love the vids.
@tobizeller8638
@tobizeller8638 4 жыл бұрын
The only thing that are missing now are solarpanels on that awesome workshop.
@jonkreuzi2082
@jonkreuzi2082 4 жыл бұрын
Plus a Cybertruck and a storage solution for the night. For the Planet!!!
@glennlawrie-smith8570
@glennlawrie-smith8570 4 жыл бұрын
...also a small wind farm.
@PaulinaPaulino
@PaulinaPaulino 4 жыл бұрын
...and a small nuclear power plant.
@ek9772
@ek9772 4 жыл бұрын
and a composting toilet.
@richfarfugnuven6308
@richfarfugnuven6308 4 жыл бұрын
And a plasma rifle in 40 watt range...
@karenmitchell6814
@karenmitchell6814 4 жыл бұрын
1. You do the most interesting, unique projects 2. I hope you will do a short follow up video or two as the tank fills. I’d like to see how much water you collect from various rain storms.
@AprilWilkerson
@AprilWilkerson 4 жыл бұрын
: ) Thats great to hear, thank you. Yes I will certainly be doing a follow up video at some point!
@paulkolodner2445
@paulkolodner2445 4 жыл бұрын
@dungoist I think the tank is down hill from the shop, and the height of the top of the fill pipe is way lower than the roof of the shop. So gravity does the work. The question is: in the heaviest rain, is the difference in height enough to handle the volume of water that has to come through the system? She shall see...
@tonyburelle6633
@tonyburelle6633 4 жыл бұрын
As I said on IG, this is fascinating, I'd only ever seen the single barrels, can't wait to see you utilize the water, fantastic job, thanks for sharing this
@cuylersucharski8823
@cuylersucharski8823 4 жыл бұрын
So excited to watch been waiting for this!!
@MegaJackd5
@MegaJackd5 4 жыл бұрын
Gidday April, Loved watching this to see how they do it in the USA, here in Australia, Aaot of homes have Tank water (as we call it). In fact the last 4 houses i have lived in over the past 10 yrs, that is our only source of waters. We arent hooked up to Mains Water (city water) you called it. My current house has a 25,000 litre tank which provides water for the house for everything, drinking, showeringv, washing, cooking etc. Plenty enough for 3 Adults in this house.
@RJLpt
@RJLpt 4 жыл бұрын
That's like a swimming pool for introverts, I love to it!
@ron827
@ron827 4 жыл бұрын
Or for those who want the privacy of swimming in the buff or redheads who might be sensitive to the sun's damaging rays. :-)
@kirstenwhitworth8079
@kirstenwhitworth8079 4 жыл бұрын
Whoohoo! Congrats! I had a rainwater collection system (RCS) at my house in South Austin, TX. I loved it! I installed it to water my chickens and for irrigation purposes because Central Texas experiences cyclical droughts. The RCS was installed by Innovative Water Solutions LLC, whom I highly recommend. I collected the water off the chicken house roof, and easily collected 2500+ gallons a year - the chicken house was 8'x 12', so you know the roof wasn't very big. The RCS was part of a larger water management system that included berms, swales and a grey-water harvesting system also used for irrigation. I also put in 12-24 inches of wood chip mulch (à la Back to Eden) in my front yard and around trees and garden beds to reduce evaporation. I did all this after taking a Permaculture class. Trees all over my neighborhood were dying, but not at my house. Now I live in the PNW, but in a "Blue Hole" created by the Olympic Mountains south of me. I get about 16"-18" of rain a year even though it _looks_ like I live in a rainforest. One of the very first things I did when I moved here was to install a 5K-gallon RCS using two 2500-gallon potable tanks. I collect the water off of my house's shingle roof. My house roof can actually generate 20K-30K gallons a year (I forget the exact number), but I only collect 5K. I installed it for irrigation, fire safety, and possibly potable purposes as well as to fill my wet-weather tank (up here, they call them ponds). This RCS I had a "handy-person" install; he did a good job, but he didn't really ever finish (i.e., never installed the tank gauges I bought, didn't finish the overflow lines, etc.) and didn't really follow the plans and specs I commissioned from Innovative Water Solutions LLC, so I often bash my head on the first-flush downspouts. Still, it is good enough for most of my purposes because I also have access to irrigation water from snow melt in the mountains. To do: I need to add a pump in order to use the harvested rainwater for irrigation - there just isn't enough head on it to water by either drip or by hand, so the rainwater has gone into the pond for the past 4 years, which makes my ducks and geese very happy.
@wavypt1981
@wavypt1981 4 жыл бұрын
Your shop is freaking amazing! Keep up the awesome videos !
@TheUserid82
@TheUserid82 4 жыл бұрын
Fire protection is another good benefit of having such a large water storage as the normal amount a firetruck carries if around 500 gallons.
@PBMS123
@PBMS123 4 жыл бұрын
Just make sure you have a fire pump, and fire hose.
@MandoFettOG
@MandoFettOG 4 жыл бұрын
@@PBMS123 the truck should be able to pump on its on.
@stevenlarson6125
@stevenlarson6125 4 жыл бұрын
@@MandoFettOG I think PBMS meant a pump for use before any town fire apparatus could show up. She would need a pump, besides the one supplying irrigation, or at least a T and gate off her irrigation supply line.
@MandoFettOG
@MandoFettOG 4 жыл бұрын
@@stevenlarson6125 oh makes sense
@TokyoCraftsman
@TokyoCraftsman 4 жыл бұрын
I've been wanting to put on in on my building here in downtown Tokyo, of course not nearly as large as yours, but maybe 200 liters or 53 gallons (US) for use to water my rooftop garden but also in the even a large earthquake. We are on a pump system, so if we lose power, we are out of water in the whole building. With the addition of a decent water filter, we could have enough water to clean, flush toilets, drink and cook with (the last two run through the filter). I need to get this done I guess. Cheers from Tokyo!
@CqureWaterTexas
@CqureWaterTexas 4 жыл бұрын
I hope you do it! I saw many rainwater collection systems in Tokyo when I visited a few years ago. I even was able to visit the Rainwater Museum (now closed).
@curlybear53
@curlybear53 4 жыл бұрын
The majority of my development in Hawaii does not have water, and we must collect rainwater for use. To make it potable,I use two different string filters and a UV light so we can used it for general purposes. I have lived with this system for 8years. It works!
@barrylitchfield250
@barrylitchfield250 4 жыл бұрын
As usual, great video and editing! Thanks for sharing.
@genemounce8302
@genemounce8302 4 жыл бұрын
I priced a potable 3 stage filtered 35,000 gallon tank system through a certain company in Johnson City to be installed in Bertram on a 3,600 sqft 'Shouse'...... $33k and change. In my opinion, Installing a well in our area is $20k minimum and it WILL go dry eventually so I'll gladly pay for the peace of mind and the ability to add on to it later for long term droughts and fire fighting capabilities.
@johnkranias3458
@johnkranias3458 4 жыл бұрын
G'day, in Australia all new homes have to have a water tank. I'm on a farm and have several plus large dams and ponds for livestock.
@nordyfamily
@nordyfamily 4 жыл бұрын
Great work! Thanks for taking the time to make, film, edit and share
@PlowAndPantryHomestead
@PlowAndPantryHomestead 4 жыл бұрын
That's huge! Awesome system. I just moved out of California, where most counties had outlawed rainwater collection, even during the severe drought. Luckily it's an option for me now.
@JoshuaMichail0
@JoshuaMichail0 4 жыл бұрын
As I understand it, in my state, Arizona, rain water harvesting is not only allowed but it's encouraged. As in the state government says you absolutely should collect rain water.
@felixreali7101
@felixreali7101 4 жыл бұрын
could anyone tell me what some of the reasons might be for a state to prohibit rain-water harvesting? I cannot think of any. except maybe greed.
@JoshuaMichail0
@JoshuaMichail0 4 жыл бұрын
@@felixreali7101 In general, the argument for restricting rainwater harvesting or collection is that rivers, streams, and lakes that supply municipal water supplies can often depend on water flowing into the rivers, etc., and thus into municipal reservoirs. The idea being if too many people collect rainwater, or if it's done on too big a scale, or both, it could be detrimental to municipal water supplies. Of course, there are plenty of areas in which that concern is not really applicable.
@jimrowan8331
@jimrowan8331 4 жыл бұрын
I'm building a container house in New Mexico that will be completely off the grid. Right now I'm working on the access road. Here's some stuff about my situation: 1) In New Mexico you can collect rainwater IF you are on the East side of the continental divide. If you are on the West side, you need a permit. Fortunately I am on the East side (my property backs up to the continental divide.) 2) I am planning to use a lined shipping container as a tank. A 40 foot high cube container can hold just North of 22,000 gallons. If you don't want to line it yourself there is a company in Australia (and other places) that sells a liner kit for you to line the container. 3) Finally, one HUGE advantage of collecting rainwater is that it is SOFT WATER! We bought an old gold mining claim that is at 7200 feet on top of a mountain. A well would be in the neighborhood of 800 feet and the water will be hard as a rock. Some of the wells that deep had to be sealed because of their arsenic content. Collection makes perfect sense!
@tiffanyjohnson3110
@tiffanyjohnson3110 4 жыл бұрын
I always wondered how the water systems worked. You described it perfectly. How cool!!!
@E.lectricityNorth
@E.lectricityNorth 4 жыл бұрын
Super smart plan and execution April. I 100 percent agree with your views on rainwater harvesting. My vegetable garden is watered with water from my home's roof, collected into 6 of those simple barrels you mentioned. Thanks for letting us check out your beautiful tank!
@The_Oldguy
@The_Oldguy 4 жыл бұрын
Please do a follow-up Video once it starts filling and your potable water system. Love the detail and insight.
@AprilWilkerson
@AprilWilkerson 4 жыл бұрын
Sure! I'll certainly be doing follow up videos.
@flapjackacres5720
@flapjackacres5720 4 жыл бұрын
Oh yes! Waiting for that video. On my system, I'm presently using a sand/charcoal filter. Simple and easy for off grid purposes. If I use the water to drink, I run it through my Berkey filter.
@jeffeastman625
@jeffeastman625 4 жыл бұрын
You should consider putting a five or 6 inch steamer fitting on that tank so that the fire department could hook into it if you ever had a structure fire on your property. You might save some money on your homeowners insurance also.
@natep24
@natep24 4 жыл бұрын
Jeff Eastman I was just thinking the same.
@CqureWaterTexas
@CqureWaterTexas 4 жыл бұрын
This is a common feature on many of the systems we install, but whether we can get a discount on homeowner's insurance depends greatly on the local fire department's wish to bless the system and write a letter to the insurance company. Some of them require 10s of thousands of dollars of extra equipment for the tank making the savings difficult to justify.
@jeffeastman625
@jeffeastman625 4 жыл бұрын
$10k???? Good lord!! Are they making you install a diesel fire pump and a stand pipe??? Do they not realize that they’re supposed to bring their own pump on the big red truck?? 🤣
@natep24
@natep24 4 жыл бұрын
I can assure you that my fire department would do what we could do to assist the homeowner to acquire any type of insurance discount. Although you probably wouldn’t see a system like this in northern Vermont.
@jrb_sland5066
@jrb_sland5066 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video, April ! I live in the Okanagan Valley in B.C., Canada, and my town is in the middle of a great area to grow apples and grapes. It is climate-rated semi-arid - we get about 11 inches of rain plus 22 inches of snow per year. Agricultural irrigation needs about three feet of water per season, so rooftop rain collection is only enough for a small veggie garden. The Okanagan river drains the higher elevation valleys to the east and west. We intercept that creek water with small dams & reservoirs, then use gravity to plumb it to our orchards which lie below the higher valleys but above the river. This all began about 1905...
@MrPremium08
@MrPremium08 4 жыл бұрын
our company works on and maintains water tanks for municipalities, so the video was cool to see. 30,000 is small for what we do, but huge for residential. Congratulations!!
@CqureWaterTexas
@CqureWaterTexas 4 жыл бұрын
Most of the single family systems we installed last year were 40,000 gallons, with the largest being 130,000 gallons. The trend is definitely toward "bigger" in central Texas.
@Rosa_AI
@Rosa_AI 4 жыл бұрын
why do i get the feeling this channel is becoming more of a how to live off the grid guide, xD
@PatrickPoet
@PatrickPoet 4 жыл бұрын
If she'd meant off grid she would have done the calculations for water usage, for average rainfall, for the required collection surface, and for the required storage, and talked about how filter/clean the water to make it potable. Oh, yeah, also off-grid solar to make sure she can run pumps whether the city/county power is available or not. I think she's just being responsible and avoiding wasting an important resource that she will need for irrigation.
@instantsiv
@instantsiv 4 жыл бұрын
Post apocalypse above ground swimming pool.
@4dchessplayer516
@4dchessplayer516 4 жыл бұрын
What ever the youtube algorithm provides
@fr33ourminds
@fr33ourminds 4 жыл бұрын
Its so interesting to get to see people evolve over time.
@alaskankare
@alaskankare 4 жыл бұрын
nothing wrong with off the grid. that means no utility BILLS! Yay!
@chicagorandy
@chicagorandy 4 жыл бұрын
Here at my Chicago 1930's brick bungalow, my rain water collection system is more commonly called.... my basement - lol. So what's it like being able to afford a 6-7 $ figure Texas Ponderosa? KZfaq and your own determination and hard work has been very-very-good to you young lady. Sincere Congrats. So....what does such a fine water reclamation system actually cost a land baroness like yerself?
@donniebrown2896
@donniebrown2896 4 жыл бұрын
Go Cubbies, Northside Rules!!! Lol
@FGUK1973
@FGUK1973 4 жыл бұрын
I don't have a collection system myself, but my sister in Australia has one for her toilet and washing machine. They have 2 narrow tanks next to their house that collects the water from their roof. Really good idea especially for flushing the toilet as you do not need to use drinking water for that. In the UK, we can get tanks that are buried in the garden and do the same thing. I will be looking into this for the washing machine and toilet usage. 10/10!!! :)
@retail6555
@retail6555 4 жыл бұрын
I installed a 3000 gal rain harvesting system 15 years ago in North Houston. The utility district was running very short of water and could not keep up with growth demands. Once the blackout days to water our property hit I was well aware price increases were imminent. I order the largest dark green FDA approved tank for water storage I could that did not stand taller than my 6’ fence as to not upset the neighbors. I think I was allowed to go above the fence about 2’ but why chance it. Being a good neighbor is more important to me. I capture water from the 5000 sq ft home on just one side from existing rain gutters. The clean out I built worked like a champ to capture water but put out leaf and other debris off the roof automatically. I used gravity to feed my garden and top off 30K in-ground pool. Something very nice about rain water, instead of chlorinated water from sprinklers, headed to the garden daily. Our water bill shot up 400% over the next 10 years because of the growth in the area and demand for water. The home sat on an acre lot and had a pool. The rain harvesting saved thousands and was a joy to install with the fam. Real solution for a real need. Even small systems pay for themselves very quickly. As fate would have it when I sold the home I sold the system above ground for more than I paid for all the parts and my labor. If your state allows it it is a very smart thing to do. Great vids and I enjoy your honest candor! I’m a fan.
@frankrussell6886
@frankrussell6886 4 жыл бұрын
I added 8 hp pump 3 " by 200 " fire hose brought down fire insurance and made fast work for dust control
@stilldking
@stilldking 4 жыл бұрын
2:06 Your rooster sounds like a guy falling off a cliff. :D Interesting video.
@BruceAUlrich
@BruceAUlrich 4 жыл бұрын
Really cool to see the whole process. Thanks for sharing, April!
@rickysafer2895
@rickysafer2895 4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting information April, you can't go wrong with this system. Thanks for the video.
@markboettcher9443
@markboettcher9443 4 жыл бұрын
Great video! (as usual) We collect water for gardening, fruit tree watering and chicken water. Just 55 Gallon barrels and a few 275 gallon totes.
@AprilWilkerson
@AprilWilkerson 4 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@dougrobins8291
@dougrobins8291 4 жыл бұрын
Will you be installing a level sensor?
@Siris35
@Siris35 4 жыл бұрын
April, this was a superb vlog. So educational and informative. I love your woodworking/carpentry vlogs too.
@AprilWilkerson
@AprilWilkerson 4 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@bjbrooks2635
@bjbrooks2635 4 жыл бұрын
Love your work April!
@davidstreeter9426
@davidstreeter9426 4 жыл бұрын
About 100+ years ago, rainwater collection was a common source of potable water as city water was not as available as today.
@TheDingpud
@TheDingpud 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and how sickening is it to hear that a lot of states and countries regulate and/or outlaw the practice of collecting rainwater. Another great video April.... Thank you!
@blairwise3339
@blairwise3339 4 жыл бұрын
On a smaller scale, looks like a great idea for a swimming pool or hot tub.
@scottsimpey2965
@scottsimpey2965 4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting to see the process of all of that going together. Frank Howarth did a video a while ago on setting up a water collection system but he used a large plastic tank, far smaller than your metal tank of course being that it was/is plastic. I always look forward to seeing and love your videos.
@travwill
@travwill 4 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks as we are installing one with a new house this year.
@TheReformationWoodshop
@TheReformationWoodshop 4 жыл бұрын
Living the dream girl! 💪🏻 I’m ready to see that tank full!
@My_Strides
@My_Strides 4 жыл бұрын
“For you metric watchers” Do you mean the rest of the world except of you guys?? XD Love your channel, you’re giving me so much info and ideas for when I build my stables. Thank you so much!!
@DanielH
@DanielH 4 жыл бұрын
Thought the same
@guyprattii3115
@guyprattii3115 4 жыл бұрын
There’s two kinds of countries in this world. Those that use the metric system and those that landed on the moon.
@Phantom0309
@Phantom0309 4 жыл бұрын
@@guyprattii3115 Amurica Fk yeah
@scottishmaker1687
@scottishmaker1687 4 жыл бұрын
@@guyprattii3115 NASA uses metric system. The Apollo Guidance Computer (which allowed a safe landing on the moon) calculated in metric and then translated to US Standard for displays. Not starting an argument - just saying.
@tomtruesdale6901
@tomtruesdale6901 4 жыл бұрын
Outstanding job on the rainwater collection video April, so glad Texas allows us to collect rain water.
@weefiah1
@weefiah1 3 жыл бұрын
I have a very low maintenance water harvesting method. Three 5 gallon buckets to catch the rain off a small section of roof. About 20 one gallon milk jugs for storage. I use the water for houseplants exclusively. I try to keep everything topped off as much as possible so as not to waste what I’ve caught. There has been one occasion recently when the dangerous winter storm of 2021 cut power to the water company. We used about 4-6 gallons a day to flush toilets. I used EVERYTHING & ANYTHING to collect any snow I could & melt it then store it in bigger storage containers normally used for storage. All in all we got through it. Afterwards my wife approached me about installing something more “high tech.” I couldn’t be happier. So that’s my story in a nutshell regarding rain harvesting.
@DonDegidio
@DonDegidio 4 жыл бұрын
Hi April, All you need now is solar, and you can be totally off grid or supply some back to it. :-)
@OffGridAussiePrepper
@OffGridAussiePrepper 4 жыл бұрын
Careful..... u don't wanna scare April away from being a prepper. I just told her that the UN wants to take her guns away.
@AlexxVinn
@AlexxVinn 4 жыл бұрын
& nuclear power too :))))))))))))))
@reincarnatethylacine3745
@reincarnatethylacine3745 4 жыл бұрын
Living in rural Australia I have never quite understood the American obsession with wells, as groundwater is more likely to contain heavy metals and salts than rainwater. I have lived the bulk of my 60+ years on tank water, up until a couple of years ago, without any form of filtration other than allowing particulates to settle, without any ill effects. The vast majority of Australian farms do the same. Water has always been a precious commodity in this very dry country ( the current drought is the worst since recording began ) and you learn from the earliest age to preserve and reuse it. We now run an 'envirocycle' septic system with the treated grey and black water ending up in the veggie patch and orchard. The standard roofing material here is corrugated iron with almost every roof surrounded by rain water gutters ( including the dog's kennel ). For me, rain water tanks were just the normal way things were done.
@sc_archery86
@sc_archery86 4 жыл бұрын
Love this. Best channel I've found so far!!
@VintageTexas59
@VintageTexas59 4 жыл бұрын
This is a great solution for your area, we get a lot of rain some months and why not harvest and use it, sweet project !
@Spirit532
@Spirit532 4 жыл бұрын
The magnesium bag is known as a "sacrificial anode" - essentially makes your tank a battery, and the magnesium eats all the corrosion. This is also used on boats!
@yuuki8075
@yuuki8075 4 жыл бұрын
thank you for explaining that 💜
@MmeHyraelle
@MmeHyraelle 4 жыл бұрын
Nice! I did not knew!
@dmpyron2
@dmpyron2 4 жыл бұрын
Zinc is cheaper than magnesium and doesn't burn as enthusiastically.
@Spirit532
@Spirit532 4 жыл бұрын
@@isaackvasager9957 Correct. It just prevents galvanic corrosion of the intact metal.
@AndreasStanglPlus
@AndreasStanglPlus 4 жыл бұрын
I've got a 160ft^3 tank - much smaller then yours, but fully submerged. And back in the days a did all the digging myself - with a pickaxe and a shovel. ;-)
@BearCreekWoodworking
@BearCreekWoodworking 4 жыл бұрын
I'm looking forward to seeing your lush garden this summer! I think you'll have the water for it!
@Ron-FabandBuild
@Ron-FabandBuild 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks April, Great video and information. I also live here in Texas. Born and Raised, left and returned. I am all about having complete control over my own resources as well.
@EddieOakes
@EddieOakes 4 жыл бұрын
"gotta love leverage" lol I love you April! You're AWESOME!!!
@remushaynes2693
@remushaynes2693 4 жыл бұрын
i would love to see a fire department connection installed so they would have a source of water. if you are on city or county water this would not be necessary, but i do not know if you are.......g
@chashint1
@chashint1 4 жыл бұрын
Hi April, you have come a long ways in 6 years, good for you and congratulations.
@ivanleishman4358
@ivanleishman4358 3 жыл бұрын
Nice job April. I have been using rain barrels for some time. I use them for all of my garden and plant watering needs. One good rainstorm fills my barrels.
@vaalrus
@vaalrus 4 жыл бұрын
Wells being problematic here (minimum 400’ of hard, difficult drilling… hard, sodium and iron filled if you do* get a good feed, and the local danger of finding gas or oil), I’ve installed dozens and dozens of cisterns for people to truck potable water in to their acreage. In a case of “The Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes”, my own place has only a 5000 gallon cistern, but I’ve installed many many hybrid systems that collect rain water/snow-melt for grey-water purposes. Even adding in the cost of trucking in water for 30 years, that’s still cheaper than the cost of drilling a well, especially if you have to ad a costly treatment system. For spits and giggles, my rural municipality did a cost analysis for the investment to hook up to the nearest municipal water supply, as some 200 homes were relatively densely adjacent to a spur line that had been run to a community that needed proper water. They came back with a cost of over $120,000.oo *per* *household* just to build out a low-volume trickle delievery network, and homeowners would *still* have to install a cistern and monitoring system… We could continue to haul water in for the next *century* before that made any sense. Plus on-going operating an maintenance for the network...
@michaelodonoghue7464
@michaelodonoghue7464 4 жыл бұрын
Being an Australian I have run virtually all of My Homes off Rainwater and in My part of the world (Adelaide, South Australia) Our Rainwater is perfectly Safe to Drink straight out of My Rainwater Tanks.
@joetripp123
@joetripp123 3 жыл бұрын
That's one massive rain water collection tank. And your editing is great. The inclusion of the giggle at 8:02 was perfect! Anyone else sad we didn't get a view from the hatch during a downpour? No, just me? Ok.
@brucegoodwyn978
@brucegoodwyn978 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, April! This is the way to go when you have the room. Unfortunately, that tank is bigger than our backyard! Our house has low roof line all the way around so we just have gutters with barrels at each corner. I would suggest to have downspouts all the way to the ground and install diverters to fill the barrels. That way when the barrels are full the water will divert down the spout and away from the house rather than overflowing the barrel and pooling around it.
@One_Crazy_Dog_Mum
@One_Crazy_Dog_Mum 4 жыл бұрын
I foresee a pump house with reverse osmosis filtration & April’s she shed is self sufficient 👍🏼 we live in the Sunshine Coast hinterland Australia and we live on tank water. I’m with you April, if the resource is there and you can harness it then why not. I’m surprised @DrDemoMatt hasn’t got one for the zombie apocalypse he’s preparing for 😂
@dawneckert6622
@dawneckert6622 4 жыл бұрын
One Crazy Dog Mum The Abandoned Mansion series is my favorite!!
@jpkalishek4586
@jpkalishek4586 4 жыл бұрын
My Sis and Brother-in-law are just up the road from you, and they built a place in Colorado. Most of the hassle and need for lawyers came from the water rights nonsense CO has on the books. It went beyond the not being able to have what you just installed. Was a bit of a shock to them having been contracting in Texas so long. Also, how far down is the water around your place? I know the rivers are near, but with that rock, some places have a rough time getting to the aquifer. I know of a place over by Meridian that has one very deep well, and they had to bore quite long way past the first hit of water to keep the supply up when the seasonal levels changed.
@philiph3156
@philiph3156 4 жыл бұрын
We had rain barrels up in Maryland that we used for garden watering. We got them from our local watershed management agency who had them through a grant to reduce runoff.
@scuzzbecuzz
@scuzzbecuzz 4 жыл бұрын
You just keep coming up with one brilliant idea after another!!!!
@Rocadamis
@Rocadamis 4 жыл бұрын
I don't know if this makes me weird, but I always wave back at the end of your videos. Ha ha ha!
@richardrasmussen804
@richardrasmussen804 4 жыл бұрын
April, How much does something like that cost?? Very cool set up!👍👍
@travwill
@travwill 4 жыл бұрын
Been pricing them. A typical POTABLE system that adds a couple extra $K for a 25-30K gallon tank like that seems to be about $30-40K, with everything (tank, collection, work, install) installed. Basically $1-$1.25 per gallon.
@CqureWaterTexas
@CqureWaterTexas 4 жыл бұрын
@@travwill That's correct Travis.
@markusayt
@markusayt 4 жыл бұрын
Harvested Rain Solutions, LLC How much would a tank roof that collects water add to a project? Great work.
@FredMcIntyre
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Awesome stuff April! 😃👍🏻🌧️👊🏻
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Great video like always! Congrats on your new shop!
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