In my system I made, my rain water goes through a strainer into a plastic 55 gallon drum where sediment and debris sinks to the bottom. Then out of a pipe at the top of the drum into a second drum. When the second drum is full a pump activates and pumps it through three whole house sediment filters, then into the storage tanks. Clean!
Great initiative and practical demonstration by installing rain water harvesting and help saving water crisis.where this can be actually seen? Well done.
I'd like a link for the valves used including the green hoses used to connect those tanks. Thank you in advance for your help. It appears as though he used Banjo valves with cam fittings.
Ideally you would want a dual-layer 'gutter guard'. One that's coarse, to keep pinecones and large debris off the next layer, which would be a product like this.
Climbing that ladder like a pro for his age. That's what good living will do to you. You could tell he was passionate about it. I learned a lot, especially the tax savings. Good on him
I just filter the water before it reaches the tank, it saves installing what im guessing would be multiple thousands of pounds of gutter filtration, and its also much more easy to install and maintain! This seems quite gimmiky to me
I love these videos - tell you everything but how much things cost. How much do these Easy-On Gutter Guards cost per feet? What about those 5,000-gallon tanks? This system has to be thousands of dollars. And then what if you have a major drought like California has been experiencing for 4 years?
+Brian Brewster That's why they have their web site pop up on the video. Who knows about the 5,000 gal tanks. That is the homeowner's choice. They aren't selling you tanks. they are selling gutter guards.
Why not just filter the water through a simple small screen before it enters the tanks instead of installing a grand worth of filter media across all your gutters?
Hopefully he has some serious filtering going on since he is using rainwater collected from an asphalt roof. Going to contain petroleum compounds for sure.
Collecting rain water for gardens is a good and sane thing to do. You can also filter it to drink it. Actually, rain water is the water supply for much of the world's population. Granted you don't want to drink rain water if you are down wind of Chernobyl or some other high polluting plant. But generally rain water is safe if collected from non-asphalt roofs.
Artjoms Pugacovs For the most part it is clean. You can drink it right away. Of course like I stated, you don't want to do that in industrial areas but rain water is clean by any standard.
Artjoms Pugacovs Ha lost my post. Typical moronic response. No where did I insult you but you fell back to the old Lefty ploy of calling someone names. rainsaucers.com/blog/2013/03/19/can-you-really-drink-rainwater-is-it-potable chemistry.about.com/od/waterchemistry/fl/Can-You-Drink-Rain-Water.htm Educate yourself before you speak.
You know.... You could freaking drill two holes for a sight glass or plastic gauge so you can actually see how much freaking water is in your 15,000 gallon water tanks.. Geeesh..
Well actually every gallon of rainwater that doesn’t go into the ground also doesn’t go into the ground water table miles and miles from you for people who are on wells. It will eventually run to springs to creeks and then to rivers. And yes - rivers are running dry. Lakes are way below prior levels - Lake Powell in Utah has what they call a bathtub ring more than 70’ above the surface of the water. Many rivers are in serious trouble ie the Colorado River Basin that was just a few years ago a raging river and furnishes water for multiple states. There are already places in the US running out of water and who only have city water a few hours a day. Wells aren’t always the answer - if groundwater is low for bore wells or depending how far they have to drill through rock for deep water- wells can be super expensive. Not to mention the last 50 years of pollution from individuals and companies.. Some people think they can pour a bucket of chemicals, gas, oil, whatever out in their back yard and it hurts no one - that isn’t true. Rainwater will eventually wash it down into the groundwater. If everyone does this - what a mess. Folks only think of their needs and little spot and nobody will tell them what to do. If we weren’t so greedy our resources would last for much longer from the water to fish in the sea to minerals etc. We use peat moss with no concern to the peat bogs which are under so much pressure. Years ago we all planted our orchids in osmunda fiber - well guess what - it ran out and it isn’t even available for purchase anymore.We overuse, over take, pollute and waste our resources. We have to stop. It is the same with everything. Where does rain come from - it is from evaporation from the rivers, streams, rain forests, etc goes up and comes back to us as rain and snow. If mountains don’t have lots of snow to melt down into the rivers there isn’t anything to refill them. It is all a cycle and we really need to take notice. That said it is reasonable to collect rainwater but we don’t want to go over board. A typical subdivision say might have a 5000 home plan - think if they all put in a 15,000 gallon storage tank - that is 75,000,000 million gallons of water not going into refreshing the ground water tables - multiply that by the number of subdivisions throughout a typical county, city etc . Yes there is a lot of water that ends up running off down the street and across so much paved roads, parking lots etc taking with the water oil, gas, and lots of pollution. However, when it hits the sewer it’s out to the rivers. We really need to design our gardens, lawns, etc and all our paved areas to allow the water to sink down not run off. Save enough to help with your watering, or growing plants and vegetables without the city tap water fluoride, chlorine, chloramines, and other chemicals but don’t get so carried away that you cause a shortage.
This gutter system is not very good. You still have to clean the mesh. My gutter system has a lip at the edge which flushes the leaves and needles to the ground yet deposits the water into the gutter and into the down spouts. I never have to clean any part of my gutter system.
Tim Hark I'm interested in more information about YOUR system, Tim. Is it a commercial product for protecting gutters, or something that you've devised? Thanks
Robert Edwards I bought it from a company I saw on TV. I do not remember the company, but the commercial still airs. In the commercial, there is a squirell on the roof and he says "Aww nuts" because he can not get in the gutters. I hope this helps.
Ya this will kill him fast getting water from an asphalt roof. He’s still alive today at almost 80 years old . I wonder how much longer his body can handle it ? From people in the comments this guy should have never lived but yet he’s fine . I grew up in the Midwest drinking water from a cistern with no filtration and I’m still walking . My Grandparents only had a cistern and a shingles roof and they lived to 89 years old .
