New Shed- WIP

[DJ’s Timber]

Good stuff

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Venetians?

[JDub]

Venetians?

2nd hand ones , sun streams through the window and on the hot days cooks anything on the bench under the window..... at least they aint pink curtains

[JDub]

Update, I finally got my stormwater for the shed sorted.

It is now officially finished! and my wife is now officially a "Shed Widow"

I will post some updated pics shortly of the stormwater and DIY watertank set up (hopefully soon anway.... my home PC died so Im just waiting for the new one to be delivered)

Joel

[JDub]

As promised here are the pics of my DIY stormwater/water tanks on the shed....

1st pic is of the 90mm stormwater PVC running from the front guttering outlet above the window (at a slightly downward angle) to behind the shed where the tanks are.

2nd pic is the front and rear downpipes connection and it running into the top of the closest Drum. In the screw top lid of this drum I have installed a mosquito mesh water tank fitting) to trap leaves debris and prevent the mozzies)

3rd pic is of the actual drums. I have used 4 x 220L screw top drums. They are the type that they use to import olives in and cost me $30 each. I have fitted tank fittings in the base of all of them and sat them up on brick pillars. They are all connected together with 25mm PVC with a length running to the front of the shed where a gate valve/pump connection is.

This effectively gives me a 850L watertank that fits into a narrow space behind the shed.
Cost about $250 all up were an equivelant commerically available water tank that size that would fit in the space would have been $800 - 1000. Granted its not as pretty but its behind a shed out of sight so who cares

[Waldo]

G'day Jdub,

It saves the money which is what counts.

I only wondered though that you now have 4 tanks, which won't give the gravity feed/flow as a larger tank. And. will you be installing a pump somehow that can be rigged up to whatever tank you want to run off? Or will you just rely on gravity feed.

[JDub]

Gday Waldo.... all the tanks are interconnected

Ie the water flows into one and in turn they all fill up together. So if one is 3/4 full all of them will be 3/4 full. If one is empty then they are all empty.... make sense?
In the last pic you can see the PVC piping coming out the bottom of each tank connecting them all together, effectively forming one large tank.

Because they are all linked together I only need one outlet. The outlet can be seen in the first pic on the side of the small shed. (the white PVC with the Red Ball valve).

I can use it to fill buckets etc or I have a 40L per minute water pump I can screw to the outlet for watering the lawn etc with the sprinkler....

[Waldo]

G'day Jdub,

Having to cock my head on the side I miss these things.

[JDub]

G'day Jdub,

Having to cock my head on the side I miss these things.

LOL, yer sorry bout that just turn your computer screen on its side you goose

I put another pic below (cause Ive got nothing better to do ATM)
Pic of the lawn in front of the shed... been using the tank water for about a month now and it seems to be doing the job Only problem is it needs to keep raining to keep filling the tank so I can keep using the water esp when the warm weather returns

Cheers

[TimberNut]

Joel,

ingenious and good money saving idea!! Now that you've saved all that money, here's a modification you can make (to spend that money )

I saw this idea at bunnings the other day on a mock-up of a water tank setup, and thought it was very cool.

see bodgy picture .

The pipe goes down, from guttering, to about a meter from the ground, with a screw cap at base. The y-joint is up near the top of this pipe, with y-piece facing UP. Then through an elbow and back down again, to your tanks.

One of the main issues rain tanks have, is all the cr4p (and bird poop) off the roof of the shed gets washed into the tanks in the first few litres of water when the rain starts.

With this idea, the first 'flush' full of rubbish goes down into the capped pipe, and all the rubbish settles there. As that pipe back-fills the overflow (of clean water) goes through the y-joint then down into the tanks.

You simply wait for the rain to stop - unscrew the cap and dump the rubbish. voila!!

(well, I thought it was a good idea).

[Andy Mac]

I've enjoyed this thread jdub, well done! Now you've had a bit of rest, with the odd ale, its time for some output!

Cheers