Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Drainage and water tank head of water 4Sep 15, 2012 1:26 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: Drainage and water tank head of water 7Sep 15, 2012 10:51 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: Drainage and water tank head of water 9Sep 16, 2012 12:57 am He may not have fitted leaf diverters (also eroneously known as rain heads) due to aesthetic reasons but you really do need them. Apart from anything else, they stop mosquitoes accessing the water and breeding. For an easy fix, l think that l would fit a sediment trap to the buried horizontal pipe. I have described it in my second post on this linked thread... viewtopic.php?f=35&t=59393 The 90 mm pipe is easily adapted to 100 mm by using a 100 mm F + F coupling and a 100-90 mm reducer socket. You should really do away with the 90 mm UPVC pipe but it is there and you may as well continue to use it. IOs are mandatory but next to useless with buried pipes and l would rather have the sediment trap in any case. The third downpipe can be retained as it can be replumbed so that it has its own filter and overflow, that way the tank's overflow would only service the excess inflow from the other two downpipes. I cannot mention how this is done on the forum. By making some simple changes, the water would be very clean and potential overflow problems could possibly be eliminated. You are not far from me but l don't do plumbing, just advise. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. 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 Need more photos from around the house including your gutters. We have had 3 of the wettest years in a row for some time so that wouldn't be helping 3 6957 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 |