Hauling Water | IT'S A WHOLE THING! 

So true! I was just telling Jonathan that we’ll need to create an outdoor hot ton before winter. As long as we use the old water for plants I’m okay with using that much water sometimes:)

Tiny Shiny Home I miss my hot tub!😄👌🏽

It’s not as bad as we thought, plus it gives me lots of quality time with the kids to talk:) I’ll take that any day:)

It’s real hot out here. Trying our best to stay hydrated and layered in sunscreen:) definitely a permanent rosy glow:)

Thank you so much! It means so much to us when you take the time to comment on our videos. We really appreciate it. We’re having a blast out here and excited to share some of our adventure:)

Yes! We appreciate water so much out here. Not quite enough pressure, though we are at a gradual slope downhill from the tank. We are just using our Airstream as though we are boondocking, which I guess, technically, we really are:)

@@TinyShinyHome , you can use water bladders for the sinks and shower, if you are able to get enough pressure to fill them. I've seen this done in Australian videos. The bladders are stored on shelves above the place the faucet is used, so there is water pressure.

We are! Thanks for watching!

Awe, thanks for the kind words.

Sweet! We’re hoping to host a gathering in June! We’d love to have you guys over!

We started down this path, but didn’t have a way to power a pump that big off-grid. Ended up building a solar powered water pump house instead ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zJiOVsNgYxE.html

Funny story. I ran into them at Walmart a couple months ago and totally made a fool of myself as I ‘fan-girl’ed our. So embarrassing but I was so excited to meet them.

Tiny Shiny Home whoa! That is so cool 😎! They are one creative family 🤘🏼

Thanks, but the physics just don't work. The 2600 gallon tank is 8' tall. No way it would gravity feed, and even if it did it would take 10x as long. We're doing 4-6 runs at a time.

I think he was inferring that you build a ten foot high structure for your truck, with a ramp, then let gravity pull the water down into your 8 foot tall storage tank.

Finding this kind of information was incredibly difficult as most of it isn't online anywhere. We recommend starting at the local hardware store and asking around, same with any neighbors. Try local facebook groups, too.

Ours cost $30/mo + $1/1,000gal. We only get between 1,500 and 2,000 per month. By the time you add in convenience fees for paying online it's $40-45-ish.

It’s not quite enough pressure. Just trickles out here. Perhaps if we had more water in the big tank? We’ll have to experiment:)

@@TinyShinyHome Have you looked into a pressure tank set up. They work really well and only run the pump when water is being used.

Gravity is definitely the way to go. Even if you bought another IBC and set it up on stilts next to the big water tank, you should be able to create enough head pressure to get to the trailer. Just look at all the elevated water tanks you see on the old homesteads. Wind turbine to pump up into the tanke and then gravity for the discharge. Good luck with your projects!

@@HighDesertHomestead Yeah that's our next project so that we are running pressurized water into the city water inlet and don't have to transfer anymore. But its' also a whole thing. Have to run power to it, create an insulated pump hose for when it gets cold, bury the lines, etc...

Yes, the Airstream has it's own 12v pump, that's what we're using after we transfer the water into the fresh tank. But it's only run to circulate water internally, it can't transfer the water from the other big tank. In our 5th wheel we had something like that where we could turn some switches and turn the pump into a suction pump. But it's not plumbed or connected that way in the AS.

@@TinyShinyHome I did not mean to use the onboard pump as a transfer. With the amount of water you still had coming through the hose with the transfer pump off you should have enough supply to just use the onboard to pull directly form the large tank. The only draw back is having to leave the garden hose across the ground unless you bury some pipe.

@@ensiv74 I don't *think* it works that way (plumbed to suck from the fresh tank, not the lines), but you've got me curious. Gonna try it at some point soon.

@@TinyShinyHome Just trying to help since your spoiler alert said it did not go well. Not sure how you plumbed the onboard pump to the onboard tank but it may be worth it to install a diverter valve (similar to a garden hose Y valve) and make an outside connection point where you can hook up the large storage tank via garden hose.

We plan on rain water catchment. So, whenever we have the funds to tackle that project and whenever we have enough roofs:)

It's...difficult. Very hard to find online - we had to just ask around locally before we got the name of the company in our area. Recommend going to local hardware stores and seeing if they have some kind of services list somewhere.

We go though around 100 gallons of water a week. So not very often:)

We checked with a few folks and it seemed cheaper. We pay about $45/mo for 2000 gallons - and if we needed more it's only $3/1000gal. So if we scaled it would definitely be cheaper. More than that, though we liked the option to haul it ourselves whenever we needed it and not have to worry about getting on someone's schedule. The only real downside is the time we spend hauling it. Tradeoffs 🤷🏼‍♂️

Unless you've got a good sized hill you can put the tanks on, you'd need to build platforms strong enough to hold 3000gal tanks up 10+ feet in the air to get any kind of gravity pressure. But even then it wouldn't be enough consistently to work like city water. We did the whole "transfer into our fresh tank each day" thing for a few months, and it was a slog. We ended up building a solar powered pump house with 12v RV pump and accumulator tank. Works great. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zJiOVsNgYxE.html

Thanks for your reply to my question. That's really helpful. I put a powerful 12 volt pump in our motorhome that provides excellent water pressure. But was hoping to have passive water transfer from the big tank to keep the on board tank full.

Yeah but then what’s going to keep that fresh tank from overflowing or expanding and cracking? Too much manual attention for me 😂

@@TinyShinyHome may be .. I think I may rethink that thanks to you. 😁

We just usually unplug it right at the compartment where the water inlet is so no need yet, but I can see how they could be handy at times.

I follow them:) I actually ran into Bree at Walmart and went total fan-girl and embarrassed myself:) ha

@@TinyShinyHome Awesome, good luck on your adventures. If I wasn't forced to retire early this year, I'd sell my house and live like this. I just can't now sadly. I'll keep thumbing up those videos. I enjoy this type of content over the moronic stuff they show on t.v. these days. Praise whatever for streaming.

Because we were thinking ahead. The Rv would eventually be moved to a permanent place on the property. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aOD8Fg9C2aI.htmlsi=OrkSaKn1QXsmIVVF also, gravity wouldn’t be enough for a family of 6 to actually use day to day.

We’ve lived in the airstream since 2017

@@TinyShinyHome you guys seem like a well oiled machine coupled with a lot of happiness.