rain harvesting system

EastTyrone

ok, new to this forum but here it goes, I plan on buying around 50 chicken and fattening them, i understand that they drink alot of water and as the shed I will be using is on a farm, water will not be free (I am from the North) I plan on creating a RHS for this purpose by water comming of the roof, what will be the best method of doing this? And what about filtering the water? what will be the cheapest and best way of doing this?

Oldtree

have a look here at this recent thread :

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056776962

kuldeep121

You can save water by rooftop rain water harevesting:
It is a system of catching rainwater where it falls. In rooftop harvesting, the roof becomes the catchments, and the rainwater is collected from the roof of the house/building. It can either be stored in a tank or diverted to artificial recharge system. This method is less expensive and very effective and if implemented properly helps in augmenting the ground water level of the area.

kuldeep121

You can save water by rooftop rain water harvesting:
It is a system of catching rainwater where it falls. In rooftop harvesting, the roof becomes the catchments, and the rainwater is collected from the roof of the house/building. It can either be stored in a tank or diverted to artificial recharge system. This method is less expensive and very effective and if implemented properly helps in augmenting the ground water level of the area.

dardhal

kuldeep121 wrote: »

You can save water by rooftop rain water harevesting:
It is a system of catching rainwater where it falls. In rooftop harvesting, the roof becomes the catchments, and the rainwater is collected from the roof of the house/building. It can either be stored in a tank or diverted to artificial recharge system. This method is less expensive and very effective and if implemented properly helps in augmenting the ground water level of the area.

What size of roof are you talking about to consider "harvesting" rain water is going to make any contribution to the ground water level? Which, in any case, is something you may not like at all. If the water table level somewhat raises and it reaches the house foundations or even the basement, you are going to be in big trouble. Don't do it at home!

In any case, I have a hard time understanding the benefits on investing in gathering and storing rain water in Ireland, except for very specific corner cases (i.e. a big farm that collects water from the barn rooftop into big tanks to use the water directly to feed the cattle or perform normal farm maintenance and cleaning, which don't require tap water). For the regular (semi)detached house, what are you going to use water for, watering the grass? You may use it for flushing the toilet, but that will require some expensive plumbing retrofitting. Any other likely use involves purifying the water, which makes costs skyrocket.

Of course, if there is no tap water in the area, this may be cheaper than running new pipes home or bulding a well, but that's a whole different story.

arse..biscuits

dardhal wrote: »

You may use it for flushing the toilet, but that will require some expensive plumbing retrofitting.

Not if you put a toilet in the back garden.