Rain Water

[gdf26562]

Hoping this makes sense. I am seeking advice, I think I have an idea of what to do but always open to suggestions.

Here goes.

I have two cement water tanks at the rear of the house, the rear one lower than the front.

I have a flat roofed house and at the front of the house the main gutter has the storm water pipes running down and under the house coming up the side of the front tank, no problems here.

The previous owner added a verandah and the gutter for this one follows the same principle as the other, however is slightly lower the the other storm water pipe and I believe joins the other strom water pipe.

My problem is, that I am replacing the wornout front verandah and have decided to remove the gutter from the main house to the verandah, this will place a large amount of rain water into the front gutter, I placed a hose into the front strom water pipe and the water eventually flowed back out the storm pipe, at the same time emptying into the front tank.

The water fills the tank due to gravity, but obviously there is not much room at the verandah end. (hope this makes sense.)

I was thinking of adding at the base of the water tank storm pipe an extention to the rear tank, in the same principle as the front, ie: gravity. I hope this will take more of the water out of the front gutter and allow the water to not over flow which I think will happen at the present.

What do you think?

I do have to remove the gutter at the front, as the previous one was done very badly.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Let's see if I understand this properly...

The verandah gutter is lower than the main gutter and you're concerned that by using only the verandah gutter there won't be enough overall fall/flow rate through the plumbing to handle the rain... so, you want to allow for this by moving the outlet to the lower tank?

If the outlet is lowered by about the same height as there is between the main & verandah gutters, you've recovered the overall fall. Sounds workable, but somehow I think that I would rather see the main gutter repaired.

Actually, it sounds like they're already running near to capacity anyway and you really should rework all the pipework for better flow. But that's not what you want to hear, is it? :D

[Tonyz]

Rain water what the #### is that

Tonto

[gdf26562]

Thanks for the reply Skew, I do have to remove the main gutter, otherwise its back to the previous way, and that looks very shoddy. I just hope that I do not loose to much water, may have to re configure the pipes, time will tell.

Tonto, I hear what you are saying and hence the need not to loose any water.

Just have to wait for the next rain, and by the looks of things that will be some time. drumming fingers patiently.