Re-Cycle Rainwater?

[Shine Window Cleaning]

I've just taking a reading from some rainwater outside and it's showing 007ppm (instead of 220ppm from good ol Southern Water!). Could I theoretically collect rainwater in a large water butt(once all this sunshine fades away), and put this thru my DI? Hmmmm......?

 

[Extremecleansussex]

There's nothing to stop you, it would need to go through a filter for the larger stuff and the DI unit but is absolutely fine to use.

 

[CNS-southwest]

Yes a few people are starting to do this, you'll need very clean gutters and a cloth filter ontop of the water puts which will need cleaning regularly, I also recommend you make a home made di system like someone on here recently did, it worked out a lot cheaper an more effectively and you could build it into the system so that the water comes out of the butt at @0ppm ready to use /emoticons/smile.png

 

[deno]

See this months window cleaning magazine, there is a great article on this.

http://www.windowcleaningmagazine.co.uk/

 

[deno]

See this months window cleaning magazine, there is a great article on this.

http://www.windowcle...magazine.co.uk/

Article is on page 33, a great read..

 

[Gushysfella]

in short yes, its what i do and at the moment theres more free water around than I can use!!!!!!

 

[Shine Window Cleaning]

Happy dayz! Thanks guys- will definitely look into this, there's plenty of rain-water about at the moment!

 

[Smurf]

Thanks deno for the link as I never new that free mag existed.

Was an interesting read but I too have been harvesting rainwater since the last hosepipe ban.

I've hardly used my RO since as it's been the wettest year on record in the UK for a hundred years /emoticons/biggrin.png

Article is on page 33, a great read..

 

[Smurf]

If you have the room then 1000ltr ibc's are alot cheaper to buy and have a smaller footprint to use as holding tanks than buying several B&Q water butts. Also rather than using a diverter (50-60% effective) simply modify the existing downpipes to go into the holding tanks which will collect 100% of the rainwater instead /emoticons/wink.png

I would also like to think I was maybe the first to come up with using a simple sock filter /emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[Dodger]

I just run it through a sponge to take big stuff out, then through home made di. (1 litre by the way has lasted 2 months and still at 000ppm)

 

[CNS-southwest]

Smurf - you do know the hose pipe ban is for domestic, doesn't include thoses using it for business /emoticons/tongue.png

I love this idea of using rainwater though /emoticons/smile.png might set something up myself after seeing that coke bottle design /emoticons/smile.png

 

[Smurf]

/emoticons/biggrin.png what are you like,... I know at the time it did not affect me but got me thinking how my business could be more eco friendly by producing pure from rainwater instead. /emoticons/tongue.png

 

[CNS-southwest]

/emoticons/biggrin.png what are you like,... I know at the time it did not affect me but got me thinking how my business could be more eco friendly by producing pure from rainwater instead. /emoticons/tongue.png

That's what I was thinking, great marketing tool too /emoticons/smile.png

 

[deno]

Thanks deno for the link as I never new that free mag existed.

Was an interesting read but I too have been harvesting rainwater since the last hosepipe ban.

I've hardly used my RO since as it's been the wettest year on record in the UK for a hundred years /emoticons/biggrin.png

Hey Smurf, it's no surprise you liked the wfp set up with the blue interior, made me chuckle when i saw you write that, it does look sweet though.Yeah this mag is a great read, has a lot of really informative articles.

Good Luck mate

 

[Dodger]

Smurf - you do know the hose pipe ban is for domestic, doesn't include thoses using it for business /emoticons/tongue.png

I love this idea of using rainwater though /emoticons/smile.png might set something up myself after seeing that coke bottle design /emoticons/smile.png

It was going to be extended to business, especially window cleaners!

 

[Smurf]

Cheers deno /emoticons/wink.png

Hey Smurf, it's no surprise you liked the wfp set up with the blue interior, made me chuckle when i saw you write that, it does look sweet though.

Yeah this mag is a great read, has a lot of really informative articles.

Good Luck mate

 

[Kips]

This thread and the article got me thinking, so I did a quick bodge job on some of my gutters. I drilled 2 holes in a horizontal bit of pipe, and fashioned a crude filter out of a tincan with holes in the bottom and sponges and socks to try to filter out any of the non disolved solids the water will pick up from my roof and gutters. If I get anything close to a decent TDS i'll come up with something more decent but here's a little video of what i've done so far - only took about 10 mins...

 

[Smurf]

Nice one,... have you taken a tds reading yet?

 

[Kips]

It hasnt rained yet so no.. the water you see in the vid is just from me testing the system by pouring water into the gutters...

 

[Kips]

You know, in retrospect, I probably should have used clean socks!! /emoticons/wink.png

 

[Smurf]

/emoticons/biggrin.png does that help?