Guttering And Water Tanks

Install a 1800mm high x 90mm pipe at t join as a first flush chamber.

Guttering and water tanks.

These pipework systems come in two forms. For best results the down pipes to be diverted to the water tank should be no more than five 5 metres from the tank site. The elevation of the tank inlet must be below the lowest gutter on the house. You can install an l shaped splashed guard to prevent the overrun during a storm.

A short piece of open gutter could accept both downspouts and extend to the ibc tank. You can also install mesh screens over your gutters that catch leaves and other debris from falling inside. Lightweight steel panels and heavy duty galvanizing make aquamate s rainwater collection tank shells perfectly suited for water storage. Another useful alternative is installing big underground tanks to collect all the water coming from the rain gutters.

It would then have an elbow and short downspout going directly to the the fill port on top of the tank. Installing a rainwater tank would be pointless if it wasn t connected via pipes to your roof capture area. If you have 20mm of rain the tank will fill by 20mm. The ideal fall should be approximately 300mm from the top of the inlet pipe to the top of the tank.

1 dry system and 2 wet system. The downspouts and underground collection piping must have water tight connections. The rainwater will fill the underground piping and the water will rise in the vertical pipes until it spills into the tank. These tanks are linked to a filter and a pump that pumps the water out whenever you need.

Your tank will fill by the amount of rain that your receive. At bottom of chamber install ball float mechanism. Ideally you want to position a water tank as close as possible to the house to avoid overhead pipes. When it first rains dirty wash off roof will go into chamber until ball floats to top and blocks the t at which time clean water then flows on to tank.

With the gutter system installed on your water tank you can harvest almost all of the rainfall from the roof of your tank. I had never worked on any gutters before so i got a lesson on working with aluminum sealing it and in the mind set of how water flows. Install splash and mesh guards on your gutters if you have a steeply pitched roof the water may be traveling so fast it splashed over the gutter. The 250l tank connects to the water collector downpipe insert and captures the rain from the gutter.