5 WaterBrick Uses You Haven’t Considered
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- Waterbricks have many uses beyond just storing water. In this video, we'll cover practical uses for these emergency preparedness items. You can check them out here: bit.ly/397fQTG
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That's actually a pretty good price even compared to 55 gal barrels which cant be transported.
Thanks city!
Some things we also prep on is instant grits, instant oatmeal, just add water pancake mix, honey, pancake syrup, dry butter, dry milk, charcoal grill, charcoal, charcoal chimney. Sadly, The way things are going, we may all end up needing our preps sometime in the near future and for a long time. We will go through the foods with a lesser shelf life first then go onto longer range food preps. Some we have are 25 year shelf life
The 10-pack is a "stupid tax" for the mathematically challenged. Most places, you buy in bulk and you get a discount... Here? 5x 2-pack is cheaper than a 10-pack.
Great video, what about an anti radiation barrier for fallout, like inner refuge? Thoughts?
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Back in the early '60's dear old dad was tasked with emergency evacuation of the U. S. Embassy in Vientiane, Laos in case it was needed. He was always assigned to be the last man out if he was assigned as embassy staff (he worked for another agency that did secret stuff and guerilla warfare: guess). He went down to the local market and purchased 20 liter plastic petrol cans ("petrol", I think is what Canadians flavor their beer with. Just an opinion), and lots of rope. The idea was, if the road or air routes were cut off, all the staff (especially the women: men would take up the rear and dad would be point) would match down to the Mekong River, tie them together with rope, part run through the petrol can handles and float/swim them across to the Thai side, there met by SF personnel. The operation had to be secret, not giving away the evacuation method so the Communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese would not have troops waiting on the bank or on boats in the water. He specifically bought red fuel cans and not water cans to give the impression of fuel storage in the embassy signalling preparation for a siege. As it was, the war shifted away from Vientiane, Laos. Dear old dad also evacuated out an American community from a Middle Eastern nation a little bit later. Oddly, I was trained to replace him. But, married a woman wanting in a safer job and home for dinner: so, a career in an all hazards metropolitan fire & rescue department it was, as a firefighter-paramedic. To be frank, I would have been of use in rescuing and evacuating American citizens and their allies from Kabul, Afghanistan and other places. Though, there is still hope for that have been abandoned. Knowledge from sixty years ago is also useful today. Water-bricks should be standard in each embassy and private American business outside of the United States: two per person because we are a sharing People. Sic Semper Tyrannis!
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I always find these water storage methods are ridiculously expensive as appealing as they seem without looking at the price tag.
they're not cheap for sure, but these units are unique.
if anyone expected life preps to be cheap they are definitely wrong. People spend thousands a year on car insurance " just in case" they have an accident and never have one "ever" . But get their draws in a bunch when it cost a few extra $$ for something that will keep you and your family ALIVE when life gets difficult or loss of essential supplies ( like what's happening right NOW all over the United States all over the world.. please do not take this as disrespectful. or personal.. I am merely just dating facts.. please stay safe stay prepared I'd rather have it and not need it then need it and not have it 💯💯
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100% agree storm, even though these aren't as over priced as some of the other water containers out there. It costs them (guessing high) maybe 10 dollars a unit to make and they turn around and double sometimes triple that. Like I said though these aren't as bad as some companies take for example Berkey they cost no more than a hundred dollars to make per unit (again a generous guess). So they have a 200% mark up how the hell do you justify that smh. If you were in the prepping game when they first came out they had them priced at half that price. And we all know why the price went up despite however they try to justify it, it's because they received alot of clout and pay youtubers to drop their name. I mean bravo to them for getting rich off of people but I would never feel good about buying one or suggesting to anyone else to buy one. Especially considering you can build one for 60 or 70 bucks
Yes big facts
@@bingothelegend pleas tell me how I can build a water purification system. I assume you're talking about the Berkeley and even the Alexapro being so expensive?! Thank you🙏📖🛐🕊️ show ♥️ like Jesus then if need be 🔫🏹 then victory 🙌🙌
These can also provide up to one protection level against radiation when filled with water. For each protection level the radiation is cut in half. It is assumed you have enough to cover you on all 5 sides.
Wow! That's interesting!!
most definitely did not know this! but yes VERY interesting indeed. 🙏💯
Agreed. Smart.
How much fun did you have building a water brick fort?😁. All really great ideas, Kris! We used to keep frozen pop bottles in the ice chest too. No soggy food and you always have fresh water. When I don't have so much in the chest freezer (certainly not now!), I put gallon jugs in it so it doesn't have to work so hard.
Thank you and blessings! 💜
Great tips. I hadn't thought about using these for my freezer during power outage. Thanks
Just love these! Have used them for years as transport between our well and retention tanks. We use a Berkey for filtration before long term storage. Recently when our city water supply was compromised, the water stash came in really handy.
This is why you and The Urban Prepper are the two best Channels on TH-cam 🇺🇸 Thank you for this informative video 🤙🏽
Water 🧱 bricks. Sigh 😔 never heard of em.
Thx Chris 🙏❤️ forever grateful 😊
Same :/
Any time!
You can use a water-filled WaterBrick (or similar product) as a kind of anchor if you want to set up a first aid station or soup kitchen in a paved parking lot. Just tie the heavy WaterBricks to the poles of your tent to keep the tent anchored to the ground. This will also work at the beach on a somewhat windy day if you want to set up a tent for shade.
I think these bricks are ideal for being mobile. Easy to carry and pack without any leaking - no vent plugs. I have 6 perfect fit on the roof rack for extended boondocking.
Great size - allowing some weaker people to carry them as a Plastic Jerry Can is more than double. The idea as Cache is brilliant as you can fill the now empty container with treated water.
These are great. I filled mine with concrete and lined in the whole inside of my house like bunker my internet and satellite don't work but I feel safe
oh WOW.. interesting.. hmmm..
How do you keep the stored water good and preserved? How long is water stored in these good for?
I would keep a couple & fill with glow in the dark (there's some home made recipes out there for that too) substance & have light at night with out batteries or generator..
Glow stick? Na, I got the glow BRICK.
it sounds like it would work, even better if you can find bricks made of clearer or white plastic instead of the blue ones in the vid
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Great ideas for more than just storing water!
Thinking of installing a shallow well in my backyard (in the suburbs). Id love to see a pros/cons video!
Pro: "free" water.
Con: Illegal eventually.
The biggest HUGE CON. The govt cant make money off it. So you will be considered an enemy of the state just like all of us preppers.
i'm thinking of doing the same! let me know how it goes
Well, hide it well!
Awesome ideas I didn't know we could use these for. Thanks Chris. Stay Safe.
Those water bricks are interesting. Thank You!
If you have 5-6 of them, you can use these water bricks to elevate yourself from the ground and then lay your sleeping pad/mat. This would help in avoiding most critters and insects. (snakes and scorpions especially if there are in your area). Most of them will just go around the blocks. You can put two of them vertically and use it as your potty seat. (if you are unable to squat)
Great suggestion for alternative uses!
Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed in information and product.
Thanks for your video. I never considered many of these uses.
Great very informative video about how to store water bricks.
I have used water brick for years but never thought of some of these other uses . Thanks for sharing
super great vid!
I don't have any in my water storage but have wanted them.
Now would be the time to start to get them
Thanks for re-aquaintimg me with them
Actually construction companies and town those cities have the bigger versions they use for roadside.. this is just a little version to it..
The just are not food grade. If you filter the water from them it should not be a problem.
Excellent presentation.
Never seen these before. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for watching!
@@CityPrepping you know I always do 😊
Many uses thanks!
Great video & great price on the waterbricks. Just secured a couple more!
Great ideas, thanks!
I like those water bricks that is a good idea and because they like Lego set they won't break apart or fall down that is awesome..
So cool! Thanks for this 🙂
Excellent information !! extremely useful .
Nice idea thanks. Have a great day.
awesome idea. i will order some ASAP!!
Waterbricks - great place to store ones gin or vodka! :)
Multitude of uses. Disinfecting wounds, providing motral boosters! And you get more than a litre! :)
Okay-I see the point of these. I hadn’t considered them before.
Love these things. Have 2 sets so far. They are so well made and they used bpa free, thick plastic. Very highly recommended.
Great ideas!
I never thought of this thank you
*Great Video Sir ! Love and Light to you ALL ! HOOAH*
absolutely outstanding...thank you as always
If you had a large number of them in your house for water storage, consider how and where you could best set them up for radiation shielding if you do not have a bunker or similar structure (and even in a place like a basement, they can add some very useful halving distances when stacked above you on a sturdy table or around you for shielding.
The halving distance of water is 7.2 inches, so you would want 6 feet for optimal shielding, but even one or two halving thicknesses when augmenting being in the low center of your house for distance would make a substantial impact (as well as give you a close water source while you wait out your 7/10 rule timeframe).
The advantage of the blocks over just surrounding yourselves with bottles and buckets is the greater consistency of shielding.
Oak, halving distance stops a animal but not radiation.
@@wheresfrankie Halving thickness. My bad. It refers to the thickness of a material necessary to reduce radiation by 50%. Thus, two = a 75% reduction (50% then 50% of the remaining 50%, etc).
Canned food doesn’t go bad, except tomatoes.
You could re-can tomatoes in a mason jar. Tomatoes can be water bath to can. So you don't have then rust in the glass.🙏📖🛐🕊️ show ♥️ like Jesus then if need be 🔫🏹 then victory 🙌🙌
You could hide survival items in a zip lock bag covered in sand in a water brick provided they could withstand the pressure of the sand
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I use blue for water and the tan ones for dry goods.
Wow! That’s very interesting!!
Drop them from the top of your castle wall onto the heads of attackers.
Great clip, on thank you 💯
Good info...Thanks
Great information CP 👍👍
Wow.. this is awesome🙌
I feel like you made this video specifically for me. Lol. Thanks brother!
Glad I could help
Thanks from Morocco, take care
Just went to your site about the bricks I'm planning on buying the 10-pack of a water and 10 pack of food storage as soon as they come available thank you for your video
I bought a bunch of these water bricks and prepped them with the preservative meant to make the water last for years. On moving them a few years later many of the rubber gaskets leaked. Has anyone else has this experience? The bricks were kept in a spare bedroom with ambient temps and low light, so I dont think it was an environmental issue.
I have a dozen Water Bricks on hand to supplement my much larger stationary emergency water tanks and rain catchment tanks. Water bricks are portable. Cover all the bases.
Very cool
#4 was my first thought 👍
I love my waterbricks. I have had issues recently with orders taking weeks to ship though. Take that into account if you decide to buy!
fortunately they have inventory at the moment, but for how long, i don't know
@@CityPrepping Kris , do you have to put any chemicals inside the water bricks????
Do you think the water bricks would help with reduce radiation against the walls or windows??
thank you !!!
Save old cans, paint, rags, papers, etc for cob building materials.
Poor man's "concrete canvas" recipe:
1 part latex paint (preferably high latex content, high gloss, exterior paint).
1 part cement.
1 part water.
1 part sand (optional).
Soak or brush it into any cotton based (or similar) fabric in a few layers and it will retain its hardened shape once dry.
Waterbricks will be my next major purchase. Gotta do some rearranging and rethinking storage to fit the water bricks, but I think I have a fantastic solution. My headboard in my bedroom is quite tall; if I turn my bed to cattycorner it, I can hide a multitude of water bricks behind the headboard, where nobody will see them unless they look under the bed toward the headboard, or stand on the bed and look down behind it. I'll also cover them with either a tarp or a sheet so I can easily remove any dust accumulation on the bricks. Solutions are everywhere!
I thought about mold accruing or the water eventually going stagnant if not changed out or cleaned often.. I read after googling about cleaning these and checking for mold every 6 months. I would think putting a drop of chlorine and burying it underground or in the dark would help to keep the mold at bay (for non-drinking water) and for drinking water, one would use purification tablets, treatments or filters.
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I am glad you released this video before payday. :-)
Good ideas
Perfect. I'm replacing my water bricks, which had served me very well through out the years, for the newer designed aqua bricks. The aqua bricks have solved all the drawbacks of the water bricks.
Care to explain?
@@LoveLikeaHurricane There are comparison videos that shows the disadvantages. Good luck with your purchase.
Good idea, but I have limited storage space, yet I do have a big blue water drum, just empty, because if I fill it up, it's where do I put it in my home, inside or outside, because of how heavy it'd be. Maybe hundreds of pounds. I wouldn't be able to move it or anything else, because it's three feet tall and one and a half feet wide. Maybe slice the top, screen and rainwater collection barrel. Then lots of salt water to figure out how to desalinate. I can do that. A condensation. Solarium system. Got a matrix movie a few days ago, to watch him do that stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Lately a lot of interesting information movies like that on TV.
I had some water stored in special water 10L container plastic bags with blue on one side to face bright areas. I stored one bag way back 18 months ago and was concerned about its quality. I bought a TDS, and water 'test strips'. I live in a one bedroom apartment so not a lot of room so the bag was in a reasonably bright bathroom under the sink. As it turned out the tests were IDENTICAL to Sydney tap water. So if the water is stored reasonably well, you have no worries storing water.
"Do not become addicted to water, it will take hold and you will resent it's absence."
~Immortan Joe~
wellll I don't know about addicted. but it's definitely necessary for all life all the time.. and yes the absence of it will be definitely affected by many.. and felt by All
Waterfilled a wall of them are an excellent protection against the initial gamma radiation from a nuclear blast. I was planning to store my spring water PET bottles along the wall closest to the nearest city, but water bricks seems just as good, or better.
Wrong. But nice try
@@Tpainactual Tell that to NASA.
@@thomasrehbinder7722 will do
Can anyone tell me the best way to store water in the bricks? Just fill with tap water and store? When k bought my bricks off Amazon water treatment drops were offered for long term water storage. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks
store in cool dark places in the home . under a bed. even in a closet.. just be careful with storing them in the garage or in sunlight also on concrete. always keep a buffer In between the ground and your bricks..
My inner prepper: Good and easy way to store water.
My inner kid: GIANT LEGOS!!!
When used for water, these would be hard to clean and keep clean (nooks & crannies) is my only concern. Thank you for the insight for other uses tho.
I thought about that too. I read after googling about cleaning these and checking for mold every 6 months. I would think putting a drop of chlorine and burying it underground or in the dark would help to keep the mold at bay (for non-drinking water) and for drinking water, one would use purification tablets, treatments or filters.
I've seen these around for awhile but, people have complained that they sometimes leak at the cap. Has anyone have this issue?
City Prepper, which brand do you recommend and where do you source them?
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i get them directly from waterbricks, the manufacturer
I have a few of these... need more! I call them dad’s LEGOs.
Question - has anyone attempted to DIY pressurize these for a portable shower, washing dishes, etc.?
I’m thinking it may be possible by getting a spare lid or two for drilling in hose adapters.
Good video; Interesting bear check? 👍👍👍😊😊😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
Other important use, Beating zombies over the head, empty or partially full. Similarly, water brick fights, water brick Olympics. Thanks for making the video. I'm joking of course. 🇺🇸😎
One picture was of someone loading water bricks full of water in a SUV . Is it safe in a hot summer time. I read that not harmful components of plastic is taken out when it is deemed safe for cooking and such but that most of the chemicals are harmful.
I like the other ideas, thank you for making this video
Great video, what about the rocket stove in ur car?
Rather than water bricks or barrels get bottled water (plastic)(to consume and cook with)!
- don't need any treatment when stored properly
- last much longer than the actual expiration date
- the contents only need treatment long after expiration (1-2 years)
- you get smaller portions (open a barrel and it will go bad very fast and needs chemical treatment)
- way more portable
- much healthier because chemical free! (bricks and barrels will most likely be filled with tap water which is of poor quality and full of chemicals and clorine)
- water bottles can be repurposed in the most versatile ways or just a new water container
It is more expensive than using tap water but not THAT expensive and but if you research the right brands, you can get good quality mineral water that also will provide you with minerals that are not contained in tap water.
BUT - storing water in barrels is fine as long as you just use that water to wash yourself. YOu should keep two seperate stocks for consumption and one for stuff like washing yourself or clothes etc.
Can you use these for beam and rice storage
What bricks would be horrible for long term caching! The holes though them will fill up with soil and then roots. That makes them hard to recover after only a few years. Any vertically buried container you cant cut the top off and extract everything from it is a bad choice or badly packed. With those holes, you have to extract the ENTIRE thing and shake stuff out of it. Short term, horizontally laid caches that are shallow, yes, ok, they'll work. Or a non-buried cache, say one in walls, but then... there might be other options. But I do like them as a dry goods container (rice, beans) and as a LEGO fan, a half high and growing wall of "lego bricks" in my living room with lots of LEGO dragons and figures and so forth blends. At least in my living room. :P
Are they in US funds and shipped to Canada?
if you fill a brick with rice and add a oxygen absorber, would the rice keep for years? or is it not air tight enough for keeping rice and beans and such?
Why does your site say portawell filter is in stock and then it also says it ships 4 weeks out.
Kris have you been asked about other prepers info
I like these but the price is about the same per unit for a 5 gallon jerry can, it's hard to justify when I'm perfectly capable of carrying 2 full jerry cans at a time. On the other hand these can same some space when stacked high enough. Overall though I'd rather stretch my dollar further and stick with Jerry cans and mylar linen 5 gallon buckets for food storage.
I have heard rumors of these leaking from the lids, what is your experience?
whats the water shelf life in these
How good are they not to trigger metal detectors with ammo
CP uses ceramic saboted bullets and plastic cases.
Arrr! Great way to store me rum.
ummm not sure about the alcohol content and plastic. but for short term or maybe just a party I'm sure
I'd use 2 to make a portable chair at the city bus stop.
Tons of uses; stacks like legos.... just don't step on one. :)
🙋🏼♀️ I have a question... ok, I want to do all this prepping, but I rent and am moving in May. I have 4 shelves of canned goods and very limited space. The next apartment I'm HOPING will be bigger and long term.
Now, how and where can I store more stuff? 1 closet is shared by 2 ppl and stuffed, the closet up here in my room gets extremely hot up here. The whole upstairs gets HOT.
Or should I wait to continue prepping for when I move?
Apartment preppers get VERY creative. Some use the space under a couch for trays of canned goods. I've seen a pic of an end table made of stacked milk crates. They covered the stack with an attractive piece of fabric to hide the crates, then topped it with glass or a nice wood panel. Theoretically, you can do it with 5gal buckets in place of milk crates. Or even these waterbricks.
That being said, maybe focus on tools and gear until you move, then do food and water.
@@TUKByV Thank you, I never thought of stuff like that. 👍
@@vickie9391 yw. Survival Mom might give you some ideas.
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okay big physics problem here, the ice bricks won't "last longer than ice cubes because there's no circulation of air"... that would be true if you left them outside on a summer day, but not in a freezer. Think of ice like a rag and energy like spilled water. the rag can absorb the spilled water until it becomes saturated. in the same way, ice can absorb energy from its surroundings (heat) until it is "saturated" (the technical term is 'in thermal equilibrium') aka melted and the same temp as its surroundings.
The reason this is true when left outside is that there is an almost infinite supply of excess energy (heat) outside, therefore the bricks last longer because they take longer to absorb heat (relationship between surface area and volume, it's true though it's just complicated.) The thing is, they still absorb the same amount of heat over their life as smaller cubes with the same total volume.
In a closed system (sorta) like a freezer, duration doesn't matter, all that matters is the amount of energy that can be absorbed. The determining factor for how long your ice will last is the insulation of your freezer. I'd agree that these are convenient but to say they "last longer than ice cubes" is nonsense. 5lbs of water frozen solid and 5lbs of ice cubes will last exactly the same amount of time and absorb exactly the same amount of energy in a freezer.. this has been my ted talk.
note: dear nitpickers. I used the word "absorb" to describe ice's interaction with energy and heat. this is not techincally correct, and I am aware of that. thanks :)
I ordered some food bricks. They literally come with a cancer warning label. Don't waste your money.