Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum Re: Plumbing to Water Tank 2Mar 23, 2011 8:38 pm Building tip No. 3: A raft slab will not get you down a river. A waffle pod slab does not go with maple syrup. My building thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=53000 Re: Plumbing to Water Tank 3Mar 23, 2011 9:08 pm Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Plumbing to Water Tank 4Mar 23, 2011 9:31 pm The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Plumbing to Water Tank 6Mar 23, 2011 10:48 pm Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Plumbing to Water Tank 9Jun 27, 2011 11:54 am i watched a friend do his hook up to his tank about a month or so ago he had either 8 or 9 downpipes dug a trench with one of them digger things (cost him 280 to hire it for the day) all around the house, about a meter or so from the slab at a depth of roughly 300mm he bought all his piping and they just started on one corner and worked their way round to the tank glued them all together and hey presto it was basically a big ring around the house with t joins coming off and hooking up to the bottom of the down pipes (with a few 45 degree elbows on each down pipe) he joined it all up on the corner the tank was on then ran it (under ground) to the tank and then up the tank and in to the top of it when it rains the whole system fills with water and when its full pushes the water into the tank he then had a pump with a regulator on top of it beside the house that was hooked up to both the tank and mains water if he wants to run off mains because his tank is low, he just turns a lever above the pump, and then in winter when the tank is full he just turns the lever back make sure the rain water tank is lower than the gutters by about 100 mm (was his advice) otherwise it obviously wont flow i was there to see how he did it and it looked pretty easy tbo, i backed filled for him as we went around took all day tennis balls are killer!!! get some guttering mesh of some description imo 18 90494 From what I know about water tanks (I've been working with a client on them for a few years now) is this - The concrete can last a lifetime if they don't crack for some… 2 10636 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 17531 |