I would just like to say

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Stone56 said:
We have also used a lot of H2O will need a delivery next week no rain worth talking about for another month it makes you realize how much you need even if you are economically with it 🙈🙉🙊
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We are now on a regime of (supposedly 1 day on 1 day off:vb-lol:) yes they turn it off at 8am then they may turn it on for the next due day but it takes all day to fill all the lines so its not till late afternoon we get pressure. We got pressure at 3pm yesterday (we heard the air being pushed at 11am), so I filled the sink and did some washing up while M had a shower, then I had 1 after I finished doing the manly washing up. It was a dribble again at 11pm when we went to bed, me thinks the guys that turn the valves don't have watches, or don't want to get up early ;).

We don't waste water, don't have a garden to water or worry that the grass is crunchy yellow. We also spent a good few months (before we were mains connected) collecting water from a spring to fill loos and supply showers, so we understand how much is needed and also how easy it is wasted.

We have a huge choice as to dig a well, lots around here are drying as the water table lowers:(. Or build a storage of water that if we know the water is off we have enough if we are good.

Need to bend a few welding rods and go divining to see:).
Whenever we dug an ole more than 2m +/- there was water from the ground, maybe I should go out and dig an ole:).

But..... I only take the wash n go to the hot tub, then rinse in the pool,
When I stink to much:vb-lol:.

J
 
marjon said:
We are now on a regime of (supposedly 1 day on 1 day off:vb-lol:) yes they turn it off at 8am then they may turn it on for the next due day but it takes all day to fill all the lines so its not till late afternoon we get pressure. We got pressure at 3pm yesterday (we heard the air being pushed at 11am), so I filled the sink and did some washing up while M had a shower, then I had 1 after I finished doing the manly washing up. It was a dribble again at 11pm when we went to bed, me thinks the guys that turn the valves don't have watches, or don't want to get up early ;).

We don't waste water, don't have a garden to water or worry that the grass is crunchy yellow. We also spent a good few months (before we were mains connected) collecting water from a spring to fill loos and supply showers, so we understand how much is needed and also how easy it is wasted.

We have a huge choice as to dig a well, lots around here are drying as the water table lowers:(. Or build a storage of water that if we know the water is off we have enough if we are good.

Need to bend a few welding rods and go divining to see:).
Whenever we dug an ole more than 2m +/- there was water from the ground, maybe I should go out and dig an ole:).

But..... I only take the wash n go to the hot tub, then rinse in the pool,
When I stink to much:vb-lol:.

J
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If I was you I would install plastic under ground storage tanks fed from the mains so you can fill when no shortage and no need for fillers in the last 10yrs we have noticed that we are getting less rain fall and the need to buy in water the cost has increased a large amount so in general there is less water about getting to the point that it's cheaper to drink beer than water so some benefits 😂😂😂😂😂
 
Stone56 said:
less water about getting to the point that it's cheaper to drink beer than water so some benefits 😂😂
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I do try my best to help, and late at night replenish the ground :vb-drink:.

Stone56 said:
f I was you I would install plastic under ground storage tanks fed from the mains so you can fill
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We have a basement (the mains comes in there) but no door big enough to get an IBC in, Storing water and using water is an issue, I would rather use all the time so stored is not bad. I have a plan just need tanks I can get attachments in and seal to mains pressure.
Looking trust me:)

J
 
6pot said:
Have you considered the possible action of rats?

They like getting into drain pipes and setting up camp in there and they are destructive little beggars. If there are bends or derivations that gives them an internal surface they can get their teeth into and if plastic pipes they can chew through it.

Pipes underground may be laid with sand/gravel round and on top of them (they do that here) then earth on top. If chewed through that can collapse into the pipe and more of it can get washed into the pipe and accumulate. As for the bits of polystyrene, forms made of it are often used for moulding concrete - I was digging bits of it out of the ground here for years!

We have a pipe here which has a 45 deg bend in it and rats have probably chewed it through at that point. Clean water was going in at one end and coming out the other end was muddy water with stones etc in it. I found a hole in the ground on the surface and poured a load of water down it. Muddy water came out of the pipe. Been meaning to dig it up and sort it but too many other things to do.
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What you say makes perfect sense.
The only thing is that we live in a non-arable part of the country. The land round here is used for growing trees and sheep. So we never see signs of rats.
Mice and "mulots", yes, moles, badgers, wolves, deer and Loirs too.
But that has to be set against the fact that for 6 months of the year no liquid runs down the pipe in the section between the septic tank and the join with the roof run off overflow pipe which itself is dry in dry periods. which basically means "not unless we are here"!
 
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Stone56 said:
No cattle on your lawn then 😁 but dangerous if you have had to much beer ask Capability Brown
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W and I years ago considered selling up and buying a country house, with extensive grounds, that was up for sale with the idea of converting it into a country house hotel like the one I worked in years ago.
A whole team of us went to look at it, family members including a builder, two landscape gardeners, an accountant, a personnel person and a person who had worked in such a hotel (moi!).
It was a lovely building we came across some interesting stuff such as a tree that should have been in a national collection, a huge lump of dry or wet rot, forget which, and a HaHa! There were some fantastic original Art Deco features, bathrooms etc.
But the house needed so much work.
I contacted the retired owners of the one I'd worked in who had then bought an even bigger place and converted that again into a successful place. They advised strongly against it. They had got out just before the financial situation changed, without financial loss. But at the time it would have been financial suicide.
Never did find out what happened to it. It was fantastically situated between Lymington and two other places in the New Forest area.
 
Stone56 said:
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Very nice, good wide range. Am I correct that you have no aubergines, courgettes or gherkins?
We have so many cherry tomatoes that we are currently making them into tomato juice, soup and sauce!
We pickle the gherkins but don't do anything other than eat the courgettes and aubergines. We also have a big crop of runner beans, too many to eat so W will have to freeze them if she can find room in the freezer!
 
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