Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 11, 2021 8:05 pm Hi everyone, Can someone please recommend me the size of rainwater tank. I'm building a new home and roof size is 385m2 (colourbond roof) and council design guidelines requires a new rainwater tank. They are suggesting 4000L tank, which I reckon is very large. Can you please throw some light on selecting the right size tank? or is there anyway we can reduce the size of the size? (obviously not by reducing the size of the home, ha ha) Cheers!! Vineet. Re: Rainwater Tank, VIC 2Nov 11, 2021 11:10 pm Size depends on the amount of space you have and the utilisation. Often it is better to have 2 or more smaller tanks. 5,000 L tanks are mass produced and usually cheaper than 4,000 litre tanks. You can save heaps on everything if you do some homework and get good advice but you also need to know what to avoid. Check some of the rainwater harvesting threads in Eco Living and the odd refugee thread like this one but found in General Discussion. This thread belongs in the Eco Living forum. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair But if it is a ground level open pit, then it is not a charged system. No surprises there. The pipes have obviously been altered and there would be a reason for this.… 3 31362 Grate, thank you! RexChan if thats the reason i could sleep well without thinking about additional cost. But 1st i'll need to read about NRV cleaning/replaing stuff. I… 7 31211 Once you know the basics, the rest is easy. Read my post in the thread linked below. viewtopic.php?p=1919271#p1919271 2 19609 |