Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: 5000L Slimline Water Tank 2Nov 07, 2012 1:40 am 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: 5000L Slimline Water Tank 4Nov 07, 2012 5:50 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: 5000L Slimline Water Tank 6Nov 11, 2012 1:13 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: 5000L Slimline Water Tank 9Nov 12, 2012 4:06 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: 5000L Slimline Water Tank 10Nov 12, 2012 5:21 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: 5000L Slimline Water Tank 11Nov 12, 2012 5:28 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: 5000L Slimline Water Tank 13Nov 14, 2012 1:51 am 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: 5000L Slimline Water Tank 15Nov 17, 2012 1:48 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: 5000L Slimline Water Tank 20Dec 04, 2012 8:40 pm JB1 The building surveyor advised I need a pump with automatic override for a new house. Is this building surveyor registered? Many are not. You have the option of a simple and much cheaper manual interchange device. "Plumbing Regulations 2008 Part 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK 14. Requirements where rainwater used for sanitary flushing (1) If a reticulated water supply from a network utility operator is connected, or proposed to be connected to a building where a rainwater tank is installed for the purpose of sanitary flushing, an automatic or manual interchange device that allows alternate use of water from the rainwater tank or the reticulated water supply must be installed to ensure that there is a continual supply of water for sanitary flushing." http://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/Domin ... -136sr.pdf http://www.pic.vic.gov.au/resources/doc ... _tanks.pdf As with many plumbing regulations, this regulation is also flawed as it makes no provision for the installation of relatively cheap automatic tank top up devices although it could be argued in the face of regulatory incompetence that an automatic tank make up device does qualify in the spirit of the regulation as intended as a manual interchange device. Your potential savings would be in the order of $800. As an aside, nearly all of the water tanks I see that have been installed as a 6 star option are either not compliant with the requirements needed to attain the 6 star rating or are sub standard installations. EDIT 27-7-2013 Top up devices do comply as automatic interchange devices. The best known one would be the RainAid. This make does not require power and costs about $140. http://www.apexvalves.co.nz/plumbing/apex/rainaid.html A manual mains water switching device consist of a manual valve and two check valves. These are cheap to install. Plumbing rainwater through a separate pipe to a second toilet cistern valve also qualifies as a manual switching device. See diagram below. http://www.pic.vic.gov.au/resources/doc ... terns2.pdf Unfortunately, most people are not informed of their less expensive options and get ripped off. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. I don't know them all, the first 2 top of your list are best known. Rylock is a good company, Stegbar is for sale. 4 16243 If you can calculate the reasonable charged head from let's say 100mm below the gutter to the top of where the vertical riser's horizontal discharge pipe will be, that… 11 17539 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Thank you for the generous offer. I need to get the plumber out to give me an explanation. As mentioned I haven't seen any rain water discharge from pipes 1& 3. It… 7 10834 |