on โ18-11-2009 08:00 PM
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on โ13-01-2013 12:24 PM
who me?
youse dobbed me in about the car wash thing remember?
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ok well it was kind of funny :^O
on โ13-01-2013 12:38 PM
Hi Everyone,
I'm sorry for disappearing .I hope that I can remember what everyone has said.
Deb, retiring in Italy sounds good.I hope that they will be careful to have everything double checked when they buy over there.Did you watch any of that show about buying properties abroad ?
Icy, that's kind of how I would be I think.I only remember bits and pieces .I can count to 20 in French,name some fruits and some other foods,say hello and goodbye and ask someone their name but apart from that I wouldn't be any good and wouldn't cope with a conversation or be able to write or read very much written in French.
Karen, the whole year has been very low in regards to rainfall.We have dams which are getting very low.They could be made bigger though the rain needs to fall to fill them (they overfowed during the floods as did our paddocks btw) and keep coming.Still need the water for the house though .We only have tank water.
Not sure what is involved with the council as far as enlarging dams..I'm recalling that Bud Tingwel (sp?) whom a former workmate of mine knew well chose not to 'make a dam'' but 'rather build a hill '.:^OI can safely say that as it was published locally as well.
Hi Joono, Normally every few months sometimes maybe The worst part is how tinder dry the bush is atm.I was waiting at the check out at the supermarket and someone needed someone checked..I noticed the bloke in front was buying heaps of 2kgs bags of sugar.I asked him if he was making jam...he said no I am trying to keep my bees alive....not much around for them to eat .It has been a very dry year here.
The last load of water we got was the Nov 7th.So 2 months ago.
This may interest our reader of porridge ?
Monthly Rainfall (in mm) at our place (vic)
Jan 22.5
Feb 72
March 92.75
April 13.5
May 20.5
June 59.5
July 81
Aug 47
Sept 412
Oct 14.25
Nov 10
Dec 13
on โ13-01-2013 12:39 PM
Correction Sept rainfall was 41 not 412 mm
on โ13-01-2013 01:03 PM
I was thinking more of your rainwater tanks, Iza... Is there any way you can increase the collection area? You should be able to easily collect enough rainwater for household use, by using the roof of the house? If that's not enough, send OH out to put gutters on the shed, or add an extension or shade area to collect more?
Nearly everyone in the outback towns I live in rely on rainwater for the house, and the rainfall is much lower (17 inches down to 12 inches avg)... but they adapt their buildings to make sure they collect enough.
yum, I love rainwater. I think it's sad that in the city people can't .. Or won't.. drink it.
on โ13-01-2013 01:14 PM
I love rainwater too but excuse me for being citified. How do you stop bugs and dirt getting into it?
on โ13-01-2013 01:38 PM
We have a filter in our Pump Jono and a flush system so that the roof gets a bit of a clean before water goes into the tank.
A bigger roof and more tanks would help Karen.I'm not doubting you just amaazed at how they manage on that rainfall without other water supply.From 1mm rainfall you generally get 1 litre of water in your tank per square m of roof space.
Apparently the average Melb family uses 157,000L of water per year (we don't come anywhere near that..even when there was 6 of us here and we needed to use house water for livestock).
where the average yearly rainfall is 653mm
25 square m of roofspace will apparently collect 12,244L yearly
150sqm of roofspace 73,462 yearly
300sqm of roofspace 146,925 yearly
on โ13-01-2013 01:43 PM
Not sure of the exact area of our main roof and I know that angles etc come into it but our home is about 10x10m so
maybe 100sqm?
on โ13-01-2013 01:45 PM
that's not right is it
on โ13-01-2013 01:45 PM
Good morning stringers.
on โ13-01-2013 01:48 PM
I had a bug filter in the tank and a leaf filter on the roof... the tanks should be pitch black inside so germs can't grow. Most people have several tanks but I don't know anything about the calculations lol
I think I read somewhere it's the pollution that makes city rainwater no good... But I'd still drink it, probably.
If your roof is too small, could you sink a bore, Iza?