Guttering And Water Tanks

I had never worked on any gutters before so i got a lesson on working with aluminum sealing it and in the mind set of how water flows.

Guttering and water tanks. For best results the down pipes to be diverted to the water tank should be no more than five 5 metres from the tank site. Installing a rainwater tank would be pointless if it wasn t connected via pipes to your roof capture area. The elevation of the tank inlet must be below the lowest gutter on the house. With the gutter system installed on your water tank you can harvest almost all of the rainfall from the roof of your tank.

The rainwater will fill the underground piping and the water will rise in the vertical pipes until it spills into the tank. Install splash and mesh guards on your gutters if you have a steeply pitched roof the water may be traveling so fast it splashed over the gutter. These tanks are linked to a filter and a pump that pumps the water out whenever you need. The 250l tank connects to the water collector downpipe insert and captures the rain from the gutter.

Another useful alternative is installing big underground tanks to collect all the water coming from the rain gutters. The ideal fall should be approximately 300mm from the top of the inlet pipe to the top of the tank. 1 dry system and 2 wet system. To harvest rainwater then you need to connect a pipework to a downpipe from your gutter to your tank that water can flow through.

When it first rains dirty wash off roof will go into chamber until ball floats to top and blocks the t at which time clean water then flows on to tank. It would then have an elbow and short downspout going directly to the the fill port on top of the tank. Your tank will fill by the amount of rain that your receive. If you have 20mm of rain the tank will fill by 20mm.

At bottom of chamber install ball float mechanism. You can also install mesh screens over your gutters that catch leaves and other debris from falling inside. Aquamate s tank panels are covered with a galvanized coating that s 1 45 ounces per square foot g145 the thickest advertised coating on the market. Ideally you want to position a water tank as close as possible to the house to avoid overhead pipes.

Install a 1800mm high x 90mm pipe at t join as a first flush chamber. The downspouts and underground collection piping must have water tight connections. A short piece of open gutter could accept both downspouts and extend to the ibc tank. Lightweight steel panels and heavy duty galvanizing make aquamate s rainwater collection tank shells perfectly suited for water storage.