Rain water tank vs Soak well Comparrison

nicjam · Oct 18, 2016 2:39 pm

Hi All,

We are still in the early stages of building, not gone to pre-start yet. We are on an acre block and have access to mains water. Was wanting to find out which would be better option in regards to handling rainfall from the roof? Are we better putting in a large rainwater tank and diverting all the down pipes to there, or setting up some form of soak well option instead? We are in Perth, so long dry summers and short wet winters. Cost is the most important reason behind why I would go one way as opposed to another. We have 400m2 of roof area.

Details of our build can be found here - http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85194

Cheers

Nicjam

bashworth · Oct 18, 2016 2:59 pm

Even if you put a rainwater tank in you are going to need to provide the tank with some sort of overflow to a soakwell or similar

nicjam · Oct 18, 2016 3:09 pm

Thanks bashworth, but I would assume there would be a less amount of soakwell or similar required then?

Oh and thanks for the Selection / Pre-Start Guide, picked a copy up the other day, well worth the very small outlay!

bashworth · Oct 18, 2016 3:52 pm

The trouble with dealing with heavy rain is that the big storm can be just after some rain which filled your tank up.

Thanks for the kind remark about the guide.