In our garden we don't have the luxury of a convenient roof to collect water from. The idea of this rain water collector is that it can collect rain via the half barrel on top and the water gets passed into the two lower barrels. It's a reasonably sleek design that holds up to approx 130 gallons of water.
I'm not sure if I'll ever get to actually build one of these.. but in my mind it's a reasonably low budget, fairly simple to build rain water system.
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Slept on this design and discovered three flaws overnight in my dreams:
- The relatively open top design is a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Need to look into that.
- The structure may be attractive to kids wanting something to climb on. I should add stabilizing features or plan on permanently fixing in place via cement.
- The pipes between barrels currently force this design to require building around the barrels while assembling them (or after) and once assembled couldn't easily be disassembled. Pipes out the back side of the middle barrel down to the lower barrel would be a better design.
See the updated design here: http://itsonlydirt.blogspot.com/p/cad-files.html
light allowed to penetrate the upper most barrel will have algae growing in no time at all. you have over 1000lbs of weight - what happens if there is a lot of rain and ground gets saturated? Even with a slightly larger base you may have an issue with stability - just a couple of random thoughts
ReplyDeleteDidn't notice this comment until today. Thanks for the input, will certainly consider those things if I ever get the chance to build one of these. As of now this remains just a dream I've had and a vision I'd like the opportunity to pursue at some point.
ReplyDeleteThanks again
Bil (aka Critty Luslow)