Thanks Pete, really enjoying this series on rainwater harvesting. Would love to see the system in action when you get to that point. Keep them coming......
@3:50 if you paid $1600 for gutters thats a great deal. I paid $600 for residential seamless about 8 years ago about 30’ linear feet less than your project. And you got commercial grade it sounds like. Well worth it.
Thanks Pete, for some reason I didn't get the notification on this video... however it shows I gave a humble up 😳🥴 So I apologize for the 1st flush question on the last vid... this is fantastic- we appreciate you and especially this series. We found out in the Polar Vortex the one area we needed a bit more work, was water catchment. While we never ran out of water, we were pretty close. Blessings
Thank you for the info. I have a brother with an 80 foot [?] long pavilion that will need its rainwater collection piping replaced soon and this video should be helpful.
You want to catch more debris? Move your "tee" on your first flush down about 2 feet. Then come back up to your entry pipe with an elbow. This forces the water to go up hill a bit, so anything heavier than water falls down into the flush leg rather than getting swept with the current into the tank. Better than the 16 inch screen fitting that will need to be cleaned on the regular, which means you have to drag out the ladder again. AND, small particles will still go through the screen. This set up also catches small floating things that may pass the leaf filter, as the top most surface of water in the flush leg remains above the tank supply pipe.
Still getting caught up on last year's videos... Really liking this series on rain catchment. I would like to put something similar (but smaller) for the garden. Much better for the garden than our iron heavy well water! Thanks for sharing Pete!
Seems like the leaf guard would work well in lighter rains but with holes that small won't a lot of the water blast off in a heavy rain? You could always put a fine mesh on the "in tank" strainer but I still have a concern with heavy rain. Since you are worried about the sun degrading the pipe I would think having it painted the same as the barn trim would be a GOOD thing since you'll easily notice when it starts to peel and you need to repaint.
Looking good Pete, 1,600 dollars for the gutters way more reasonable than 4,000 I don't know what that guy was thinking. You'll have to spot check those small weep holes at the bottom of each flush periodically as small as they are it wouldn't take much to have them get stopped up. You mentioned an overflow system which makes perfect sense and I am just curious if you have an idea for some way to gauge how much water you are storing? As always looking forward to your next video, David.
Great video Pete. I recommend not using the 16 inch screen. With my tanks i had issues Because the mesh is so fine dirt and moss like rubbish blocked it several times a year and you don't know until you have collected zero water from a big rain. Pipes directly into the tank is how I solved my issue like what you have done. It's just one less thing that could go wrong. As you have said in previous videos. " Keep it simple stupid" Tyson.
brilliant work as ever Mr. Pete. I was wondering if you plan to put in place some kind of measuring system of how much water you have in the tanks? Thank you
Just bought some land in Kentucky and would love to pick your brain for ideas on the system I will need to build off of the 30x60 barn on the property. Thoughts?..
Thank you, I know that one inch of rain on the roof will give me about 1500 gallons. I would need 8 inches of rain to fill the 12,000 gallons of tanks. So it shouldn't take too many rainy days.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading yeah with that much roof span i would not think it would take too long to fill them up. if you are able to, i would like to see a video during a heavy rain of the water going thru the leaf guard. just curious to see how much water flows thru during a heavy rain. cheers pete!
Just wondering how come you didn't build that end up with dirt instead of digging. Water could build up on that one end Just curious good build though.
Don't put the 16 inch screen under your two fill pipes. You will forever be climbing up there to disasemble so you can clean and empty the screen. Your leaf eater and first flush are doing the job.
Also, great idea on the weep hole on the first flush. I have watched at least 50 videos on setting up a first flash and no one has ever thought of that, or at least talked about it on their videos.
Nice job, as usual! I was just wondering if you calculated how long it will take to fill those tanks based on the average rainfall you get there and the size of your roof? That is a nice stockpile of water once they get filled. I just watched a video of the Pitcairn Islanders (Mutiny on the Bounty survivors) who have those same type of catchment tanks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Thanks, we get around 48 inches of rain here a year. One inch of rain on the garage equals 1500 gallons of water. So about 8 inches of rain should fill those tanks up. So you see It won't take too many good rains to fill them.
Fun to watch your project. What about strapping a pantyhose to the intake section (at least temporarily to see if any debris makes it that far)? You probably have some old Halloween costumes! 😆 just kidding. Anyway, great job, can’t wait to see the first rain. You probably don’t get lengthy freezes down there to worry about ice in the pipe like we get up in Ohio.
I wonder how it's working to let water filter through all those leaves that gather in your gutter; the feed store had gutters over their large shelter for alfalfa bales, and the guy told me he drank the water that filtered through the dirty gutter and had diarrhea for a week....I'd keep those leaves out ALL THE TIME....my greenhouse has no leaves because it's not near any trees (AZ desert), but Texas is a different story...when I gather rainwater, I put it all through a Berkey filtration system before drinking any of it, even though it's crystal clear - overhead jets fill the AZ skies with God know what, so I wait some amount of time during a rain, until the skies have DUMPED the first rainwater, which is probably more polluted. I don't have a system yet to water my orchard because the rainfall here in NW AZ is not enough for 2000 gallons/day for fruit trees. But for drinking, it's always filtered, clean and no one gets sick from it EVER. I wouldn't know about Texas water purity. I know you use rainwater mostly for watering your plants.🌵
I sure would like to know the brand name of the cover for that basket that you introduced us to at th-cam.com/video/nrc1sOwsgNc/w-d-xo.html I just had a water tank installed and it has a basket installed in the top that looks just like the basket you showed, but it did not come with the cover with the pipe openings. I am asking the vendor of the water tank if he knows how I could get one. But, I thought I would ask you too if you know the brand name, etc. Thanks,
@@petebeasttexashomesteading I would also love to see a close up picture of how you fastened the pipes to the wall. I think you used unistrut. Then what did you attach to the unistrut to hold the pipes? Thanks for your helpful videos.
Thanks Pete, really enjoying this series on rainwater harvesting. Would love to see the system in action when you get to that point. Keep them coming......
Nice planning! Looking forward to seeing collecting water.
That's awesome, Pete. Thanks so much for the step-by-step. It's so helpful. Great to see your plan coming to fruition.
Thank you 👍
@3:50 if you paid $1600 for gutters thats a great deal. I paid $600 for residential seamless about 8 years ago about 30’ linear feet less than your project. And you got commercial grade it sounds like. Well worth it.
Thanks Pete, for some reason I didn't get the notification on this video... however it shows I gave a humble up 😳🥴
So I apologize for the 1st flush question on the last vid... this is fantastic- we appreciate you and especially this series.
We found out in the Polar Vortex the one area we needed a bit more work, was water catchment. While we never ran out of water, we were pretty close.
Blessings
No worries, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you for the info. I have a brother with an 80 foot [?] long pavilion that will need its rainwater collection piping replaced soon and this video should be helpful.
Looking good Pete. You’re projects are always educational Karen
That was excellent Pete, great job. You'll always have good water now. 💚👍👍💛
Great job Pete 🌧💧
You want to catch more debris? Move your "tee" on your first flush down about 2 feet. Then come back up to your entry pipe with an elbow. This forces the water to go up hill a bit, so anything heavier than water falls down into the flush leg rather than getting swept with the current into the tank.
Better than the 16 inch screen fitting that will need to be cleaned on the regular, which means you have to drag out the ladder again. AND, small particles will still go through the screen.
This set up also catches small floating things that may pass the leaf filter, as the top most surface of water in the flush leg remains above the tank supply pipe.
Still getting caught up on last year's videos... Really liking this series on rain catchment. I would like to put something similar (but smaller) for the garden. Much better for the garden than our iron heavy well water! Thanks for sharing Pete!
Seems like the leaf guard would work well in lighter rains but with holes that small won't a lot of the water blast off in a heavy rain?
You could always put a fine mesh on the "in tank" strainer but I still have a concern with heavy rain.
Since you are worried about the sun degrading the pipe I would think having it painted the same as the barn trim would be a GOOD thing since you'll easily notice when it starts to peel and you need to repaint.
Nice system and like your detail in the installation. Robin.
Nice work Pete; Very informative!
TY
Looks great! Little surprised you didn’t do the ole water hose test to see how it all flows.
I actually forgot to do that but I'll show it on action soon.
I’ve heard in some places it’s illegal to harvest rain water!?! How ridiculous. Awesome setup
Looking good Pete, 1,600 dollars for the gutters way more reasonable than 4,000 I don't know what that guy was thinking. You'll have to spot check those small weep holes at the bottom of each flush periodically as small as they are it wouldn't take much to have them get stopped up. You mentioned an overflow system which makes perfect sense and I am just curious if you have an idea for some way to gauge how much water you are storing? As always looking forward to your next video, David.
Excellent job Pete! Looks very nice!
Non c'è niente da dire. Quando il lavoro è ben fatto e curato, non ci si stanca di guardare.
Great video Pete. I recommend not using the 16 inch screen. With my tanks i had issues Because the mesh is so fine dirt and moss like rubbish blocked it several times a year and you don't know until you have collected zero water from a big rain. Pipes directly into the tank is how I solved my issue like what you have done. It's just one less thing that could go wrong. As you have said in previous videos. " Keep it simple stupid"
Tyson.
Thanks for the tip👍
Really good system ... very well thought out!
Nice work! Looks like it will work great.
you made us get all this rain this week! lol
I didn't get but a sprinkle 😩
brilliant work as ever Mr. Pete. I was wondering if you plan to put in place some kind of measuring system of how much water you have in the tanks? Thank you
Thank you, as far as finding out how much water is in the tanks I'll just knock on the sides of the tanks to see how much water is in there.
You only have one downspout for each 60' length of gutter?
@@txtoth Yeah I was worried about that too but the opening for the down spouts is big and it's been working great.
One question….. do you need to vent the tanks to displace the air once the water starts filling them up?
The tanks already have vents in the lid covers. But there will also be the over flow pipe for venting too.
Just bought some land in Kentucky and would love to pick your brain for ideas on the system I will need to build off of the 30x60 barn on the property. Thoughts?..
I would go as big as you can. My building is 40x60 and my tanks total 12,000 gallons and I'll have those filled up with 8 inches of rain.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading thank you and thanks for your videos. They are awesome.
looks great pete. are you taking any bets as to how many rain events it takes to fill all the tanks up?!
Thank you, I know that one inch of rain on the roof will give me about 1500 gallons. I would need 8 inches of rain to fill the 12,000 gallons of tanks. So it shouldn't take too many rainy days.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading yeah with that much roof span i would not think it would take too long to fill them up. if you are able to, i would like to see a video during a heavy rain of the water going thru the leaf guard. just curious to see how much water flows thru during a heavy rain. cheers pete!
Pete, In High School, were you voted "most likely to survive"?
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Just wondering how come you didn't build that end up with dirt instead of digging. Water could build up on that one end
Just curious good build though.
I have to fill that end up soon. I was originally going to put two more tanks in on that end but decided not to.
Don't put the 16 inch screen under your two fill pipes. You will forever be climbing up there to disasemble so you can clean and empty the screen. Your leaf eater and first flush are doing the job.
Sean from edible acres just did a video on the gutter guards he made for his rain water catchment system. You might check it out over on his channel
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Also, great idea on the weep hole on the first flush. I have watched at least 50 videos on setting up a first flash and no one has ever thought of that, or at least talked about it on their videos.
Nice job, as usual! I was just wondering if you calculated how long it will take to fill those tanks based on the average rainfall you get there and the size of your roof? That is a nice stockpile of water once they get filled. I just watched a video of the Pitcairn Islanders (Mutiny on the Bounty survivors) who have those same type of catchment tanks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Thanks, we get around 48 inches of rain here a year. One inch of rain on the garage equals 1500 gallons of water. So about 8 inches of rain should fill those tanks up. So you see It won't take too many good rains to fill them.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading Wow you are really in a wet part of Texas! That's more than we get here in Portland, OR.
Min 5:52, why is needed fill de pipe first?
I am from México, maybe my english is no good.
Thank you and God bless you
El agua sucia del techo irá primero a la tubería y se asentará en el fondo. Entonces el agua limpia irá al tanque.
Fun to watch your project. What about strapping a pantyhose to the intake section (at least temporarily to see if any debris makes it that far)? You probably have some old Halloween costumes! 😆 just kidding. Anyway, great job, can’t wait to see the first rain. You probably don’t get lengthy freezes down there to worry about ice in the pipe like we get up in Ohio.
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I wonder how it's working to let water filter through all those leaves that gather in your gutter; the feed store had gutters over their large shelter for alfalfa bales, and the guy told me he drank the water that filtered through the dirty gutter and had diarrhea for a week....I'd keep those leaves out ALL THE TIME....my greenhouse has no leaves because it's not near any trees (AZ desert), but Texas is a different story...when I gather rainwater, I put it all through a Berkey filtration system before drinking any of it, even though it's crystal clear - overhead jets fill the AZ skies with God know what, so I wait some amount of time during a rain, until the skies have DUMPED the first rainwater, which is probably more polluted. I don't have a system yet to water my orchard because the rainfall here in NW AZ is not enough for 2000 gallons/day for fruit trees. But for drinking, it's always filtered, clean and no one gets sick from it EVER. I wouldn't know about Texas water purity. I know you use rainwater mostly for watering your plants.🌵
Just hope you don't get snow with those😅
Me too 😩
I sure would like to know the brand name of the cover for that basket that you introduced us to at th-cam.com/video/nrc1sOwsgNc/w-d-xo.html
I just had a water tank installed and it has a basket installed in the top that looks just like the basket you showed, but it did not come with the cover with the pipe openings. I am asking the vendor of the water tank if he knows how I could get one. But, I thought I would ask you too if you know the brand name, etc. Thanks,
I found one. It is on it's way. 🙂 I had to search for 500mm Hiflow Leaf Strainer cover on Amazon.
Sorry for the late reply but the tank screen link was in the description under the video. Just click where it says "More"
@@petebeasttexashomesteading Thank you. I found it another way and ordered it and it has been delivered.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading
I would also love to see a close up picture of how you fastened the pipes to the wall. I think you used unistrut. Then what did you attach to the unistrut to hold the pipes? Thanks for your helpful videos.