Hosepipe ban

albernazj93

Hey guys,
Hopepipe ban starts today.


How can we water our garden?


https://www.thejournal.ie/hosepipe-ban-june-2020-5117745-Jun2020/


Mine is a brand new garden, I need to water it pretty much every day

garv123

with a watering can..

Im in the same boat, .5 acres of new grass just starting to grow and hundreds spent on flower beds.

s1ippy

What if you don't bathe and just use the water you save from that, is it still allowed? What if you stand in the garden as somebody is watering it and that's your shower? I'm determined to find a workaround somehow.

albernazj93

I will go have a shower in the garden Walking around and washing myself

New Home

s1ippy wrote: »

What if you don't bathe and just use the water you save from that, is it still allowed? What if you stand in the garden as somebody is watering it and that's your shower? I'm determined to find a workaround somehow.

Or you can stop flushing unless strictly necessary ("If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down").

Seriously, though, I'm saving all the cold water I get when I'm waiting for the hot water to arrive to the tap. It adds up to quite a bit!

Jim_Hodge

I'm likewise saving waste water from washing up, peeling veg, running the hot tap etc but the mechanics of ferrying it to all parts of the garden is a pain in the proverbial.

Any use of a hose is banned but you can fill as many buckets as you like and water in a much less efficient manner. :rolleyes:

New Home

Oh yes, the water from washing the veggies and from food preparation, too. If you're really stuck, defrost the freezer.

irelandrover

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

I'm likewise saving waste water from washing up, peeling veg, running the hot tap etc but the mechanics of ferrying it to all parts of the garden is a pain in the proverbial.

Any use of a hose is banned but you can fill as many buckets as you like and water in a much less efficient manner. :rolleyes:

People use less water when they have to walk back and forth with buckets than when they can use a hose.

Jim_Hodge

irelandrover wrote: »

People use less water when they have to walk back and forth with buckets than when they can use a hose.

I'd debate that, having watched somebody today filling buckets none stop. I'd water an area with less water by hose, than throwing buckets of water over it.

The car will be washed with a fraction of the water if I had a hose connected to a pressure washer as opposed to using buckets.

If somewhere really needs watering I'll carry as many buckets as I need to to save the planting.

Reckless Abandonment

Connect a hose to your watering can..

Jim_Hodge

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

Connect a hose to your watering can..

Believe it or not that's prohibited in the letter of the law. It's the use of a hosepipe that's restricted.

magicbastarder

s1ippy wrote: »

What if you don't bathe and just use the water you save from that, is it still allowed?

try asking the inspector (there won't be one) to smell you as proof. i suspect it wouldn't work.

garv123

The best part of it all, its illegal to fill a swimpool with a hose, but you can fill it with buckets from the same tap no problem at all. :pac::rolleyes:

Who writes this sh!te

PROHIBITED USE
Use of water drawn through a hosepipe or
similar apparatus for the purpose of –

iv. filling or maintaining a domestic swimming or paddling pool
(except when using hand held containers filled directly
from a tap)

Garlinge

Yep saving 'greywater' here.... just wish could divert washing machine outflow. I leave a basin in shower cubicle, surprised at how much collects. Only special plants getting watered, should organise a rota!

albernazj93

Should we receive a letter at home or we are all expected to read the news?

magicbastarder

you're expected to read the news.

New Home

Or to listen to them, anyway.

Paddygreen

I will be keeping an eye on my neighbors to make sure they follow the rules. I can oversee six and a half back gardens and mark my words if I see one hose pipe in use I will be straight onto Irish water. #hosepipeban

albernazj93

Tonight I will water my garden enough for the next 20 days

fiacha

I've been collecting grey water from the kitchen for the last month as the rain butts on garage and green house have been empty since early May. I add a few litres of "fresh" water from the tap to the butts every morning just to dilute the grey water a bit.

I use a basic dirty water pump to water the back garden. I use watering cans for the front garden, but fill them with pumped water via the hose.
Water pressure from the pump is low so it's easy to control how much each plant gets.
I always water direct to the base of plants and I suspect that I use less water with the hose. I've ordered a flow meter to test out my theory .

I've done the same for the last few hose bans that I can remember and I've never had any visits from Irish Water etc.

Paddygreen

albernazj93 wrote: »

Tonight I will water my garden enough for the next 20 days

Have you no sense of shame. Why can’t you follow the rules?

miezekatze

Get a water butt or two and start collecting rain water to water your garden. There is really no need to use treated water for this purpose.

albernazj93

magicbastarder wrote: »

you're expected to read the news.

New Home wrote: »

Or to listen to them, anyway.

Got it! I just heard about it today (the day before it starts). I'm wondering if they have been warning people about it for some time?

albernazj93

Paddygreen wrote: »

Have you no sense of shame. Why can’t you follow the rules?

Some of us are having just a bit of fun in here, can't you see that?

New Home

albernazj93 wrote: »

Got it! I just heard about it today (the day before it starts). I'm wondering if they have been warning people about it for some time?

Yes, for the past week or so. And anyway, it was only a matter of time before they announced, with the weather we've been having these past few months.

albernazj93

miezekatze wrote: »

Get a water butt or two and start collecting rain water to water your garden. There is really no need to use treated water for this purpose.

Yes, I had seen in Lidl or Aldi A water butt you can collect a good amount of water.

Edit: https://www.lidl.ie/en/p/great-gardens/100l-water-butt-kit/p43334

Not sure if we can use the washing machine water to water the garden/plants... that would be a good option too

albernazj93

New Home wrote: »

Yes, for the past week or so. And anyway, it was only a matter of time before they announced, with the weather we've been having these past few months.

Yea, it hasn't been raining at all.



The forecast shows raining days till Saturday.

miezekatze

albernazj93 wrote: »

Yes, I had seen in Lidl or Aldi A water butt you can collect a good amount of water.

Not sure if we can use the washing machine water to water the garden/plants... that would be a good option too

Any DIY shop sells them too at pretty much the same price. I very rarely need to use tap water for the garden, and I grow veg etc too. Have 2 water butts.

New Home

albernazj93 wrote: »

Yes, I had seen in Lidl or Aldi A water butt you can collect a good amount of water.

Edit: https://www.lidl.ie/en/p/great-gardens/100l-water-butt-kit/p43334

Not sure if we can use the washing machine water to water the garden/plants... that would be a good option too

I guess it'd depend on the type of detergent you use - fabric conditioner would probably be a no-no.

dom40

A hosepipe ban in Ireland(Is this a joke?)probably the wettest country in Europe and plenty of rain forecast in the next few days,I,m in the south east of England with very low amounts of rainfall year after year,i cant remember the last time we had a hosepipe ban,

New Home

You might have better water treatment facilities than we do here. Keep in mind that in some areas there's been a boil water notice in place for over 2 years. That's the whole point - they don't mind if you use water from a river or a stream or a lake, not at the moment, anyway. It's the treated water supply that's the issue.

Lurching

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

Any use of a hose is banned but you can fill as many buckets as you like and water in a much less efficient manner. :rolleyes:

Pretty much every washing machine is supplied by a hose.

Looks like I won't be able to wash any clothes for the foreseeable!

TheRiverman

albernazj93 wrote: »

Tonight I will water my garden enough for the next 20 days

Rain forecast over the coming days,so no need to.

Jim_Hodge

albernazj93 wrote: »

Tonight I will water my garden enough for the next 20 days

Too late, you should have done so last night.

Jim_Hodge

TheRiverman wrote: »

Rain forecast over the coming days,so no need to.

0.4mm forecast for here, so not much help.

albernazj93

TheRiverman wrote: »

Rain forecast over the coming days,so no need to.

Yeah. I was joking

I think this is the first time I'm saying this: I hope it rains!

RebelButtMunch

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

I'm likewise saving waste water from washing up, peeling veg, running the hot tap etc but the mechanics of ferrying it to all parts of the garden is a pain in the proverbial.

Any use of a hose is banned but you can fill as many buckets as you like and water in a much less efficient manner. :rolleyes:

Unless you're watering grass, your better off pouring lots of water onto and under the roots of flowers and veg every 4/5 days. It encourages deep roots. Sprinkling every other day does the opposite.

celticbhoy27

We have our own well so the ban wouldnt be applicable if we chose to use a hose. I collect grey water every summer however, drought or not. Showers, baths, washing up etc all diverted to a 100litre container. It's filled and emptied twice a day. Flower beds are blooming and healthy. The poor grass though is letting it down badly, scorched to hell, too much of hat to water unfortunately

NIMAN

It's ok, it's June.

It'll probably rain every second day from now til Sept.

loyatemu

dom40 wrote: »

A hosepipe ban in Ireland(Is this a joke?)probably the wettest country in Europe and plenty of rain forecast in the next few days,I,m in the south east of England with very low amounts of rainfall year after year,i cant remember the last time we had a hosepipe ban,

it's been the driest spring on record in the East - that's 170 years of records.

fortunately for those of you worried about your lawn, it's going to be a fairly wet week. But it will take a fairly sustained spell of wet weather to refill the reservoirs.

garv123

2 hosepipe bans since Irish water came along.. Great way to justify water charges..



Grabs tinfoil hat!!

New Home

We don't have water charges any mores, which perhaps goes to explain why we have housepipe bans.

no.8

dom40 wrote:

A hosepipe ban in Ireland(Is this a joke?)probably the wettest country in Europe and plenty of rain forecast in the next few days,I,m in the south east of England with very low amounts of rainfall year after year,i cant remember the last time we had a hosepipe ban,

I think you'll find that you're well off the mark there Dom. Compare the Dublin region for avg. Annual rainfall vs. numerous large European cities.

beggars_bush

no.8 wrote: »

I think you'll find that you're well off the mark there Dom. Compare the Dublin region for avg. Annual rainfall vs. numerous large European cities.

its leeward of the Dublin/Wicklow mountains, similar to Seattle

the plan to bring water from the Shannon is dumb.

garv123

garv123 wrote: »

2 hosepipe bans since Irish water came along.. Great way to justify water charges..

Grabs tinfoil hat!!

Have to say, I'm no conspiracy theorist but I was thinking the same. I reckon we'll have a few more of these bans over the coming years, then we'll get the "look, we can't be cutting the water off every summer, we need some cash to work on the system" and bang, you're straight back into water charges, but the bans will disappear so people will feel like they see a difference.

(and I'm someone who doesn't really mind the idea of a water charge, but the rates they were considering charging before were ludicrous).

loyatemu

Deleted User wrote: »

Have to say, I'm no conspiracy theorist but I was thinking the same. I reckon we'll have a few more of these bans over the coming years, then we'll get the "look, we can't be cutting the water off every summer, we need some cash to work on the system" and bang, you're straight back into water charges, but the bans will disappear so people will feel like they see a difference.

(and I'm someone who doesn't really mind the idea of a water charge, but the rates they were considering charging before were ludicrous).

do you think the driest spring in 170 years is a conspiracy?

magicbastarder

was supposed to be a very wet day today, but here (dublin 9) we've barely had a spit. seems the weather system circled around dublin and just tickled it slightly.

magicbastarder

loyatemu wrote: »

do you think the driest spring in 170 years is a conspiracy?

you beat me to it. irish water arranged one of the driest spells in living memory in 2018 in order to make themselves look more important.

Stepping Stone

garv123 wrote: »

2 hosepipe bans since Irish water came along.. Great way to justify water charges..



Grabs tinfoil hat!!

There were plenty of droughts before but they were never publicised. Add to that the growing population and increase in water consumption and you’re going to hit trouble with the weather we’re getting these days.

I had a look and it seems to be mainly groundwater supplies that are impacted. We’re just not getting the rain to recharge the aquifers. Anyone with a well in 2018 knew about them running dry.

As for no hosepipe band in England; every bloody summer. I lived there and it was just par for the course. They also don’t flush toilets at night in some areas to conserve water all year round. The SE relies on groundwater which is always hard hit.

loyatemu

magicbastarder wrote: »

was supposed to be a very wet day today, but here (dublin 9) we've barely had a spit. seems the weather system circled around dublin and just tickled it slightly.

it was raining most of the day in Wicklow so some good news for the reservoirs (apparently we'll need a really crappy summer to get the levels back up, I think I'd rather have the hose ban).

loyatemu

loyatemu wrote: »

do you think the driest spring in 170 years is a conspiracy?

I remember long dry summers growing up and in my teens (Im 32). I don't remember many hose bans, though.