Re: Drier conditions & water restrictions - what to do?


"VX" <vastorex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 1:47:56 +0000, Stan The Man wrote
(in message <250320060147564346%man@xxxxxxxxx>):

You will always be able to attach a hose to a private water supply -
which is what a water *** is. In fact you will make the water
companies very happy. Is your system gravity fed? How well does it
work? Tell all.

I haven't got the downpipe connected to the *** yet and haven't started
using the ***, so I don't know how well gravity alone would work.
Originally
I just assumed it would be enough, now I'm not so sure. However I bought a
"water*** pump" (cheaper from diytools.com than from Crocus for the same
item) for the purpose of getting bathwater out of the bath and into the
***,


Assuming the bathroom is upstairs you can do this quite easily by
siphoning it. If a hose is full of water with one end in the bath,
then providing the outlet at the other end is lower, all the water
in the bath will flow through the hose, even uphill, and out through
the bathroom window. Except for the final amount when you'll need
to hold up the end of the hose to allow the water to flow down
and through the window.

So first fit a stopper on the *** end. Then go back upstairs
and fill the hose from a tap on the bath just trickling will do
if you don't want a shower as well - until it's full, then put
your finger over it and put that end under the bathwater and keep
it there somehow. Then go back downstairs and put the other end
under the water in the *** and take the stopper off....

Once you're satisfied it actually works, you can of course modify
to suit.

....

but realised belatedly from its description that it was primarily intended
for getting water out of the *** and into a hose. This suggests that this
has proved to be necessary on several occasions sufficient for someone to
succesfully market a pump for the purpose. Well I'm prepared. But I think
I'm
expecting to need the pump for pushing water through to its ultimate
destination.

....

The principle of the siphon can come in useful in all sorts of situations.
Just remember that just so long as the hose containing the water is full,
and so forms a continuous body of water, so long as the outlet remains lower
than the inlet, water will flow through the hose. Although the final
amount won't climb the hose unsupported. The hose will then need to be
tipped up.

michael adams

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