Tank Project

This is to keep a photo record of our longish project to get a 2000 litre rainwater tank into a spot into our back yard. It involved knocking away part of the front fence and carrying in the new tank. That was right back in about April and it sat there for a few months while we prepared its final resting place.

Because of existing sewerage pipes, we found that it could not sit at the corner of our house but be set back along the back wall. That was a bit of a compromise when considering the fall of the guttering and the position of the down pipe into the tank.

The border was set with strong plastic garden divider at a radius 30 cm greater than the tanks to conform to installation instructions.

We used plenty of sand from our disused sand pit at the back, over 10 cm of sand right across and it was pleasing that the garden divider strip sat perfectly level and did not need adjusting.

Peter initially had the overflow pipe running in an open way into the sewerage 'breather' pipe nearby, but was told by the plumber installing our new guttering that that was a wrong thing to do. He kindly reset the guttering to suit the new position of the tanks down pipe and ran an outlet hose round the corner of the house to the storm water inlet which had the old down pipe.

It was very pleasing to see it all finally come together. There has been a lot of rain recently and our tank is now full to the brim. Pleasing. We will paint the white pipes green some time soon.