There, I fixed it.
Jun. 18th, 2012 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzAfter many trials-and-errors with our new rainbarrel, I finally have fixed it. Yesterday I was really tired of the thing not filling up properly so I pulled it from the drain pipe, turned the thing around and found out that there were two points where we could have put the tap but we had gotten only one tap to plug these two gaping holes with. No wonder it wouldn't fill up.
Ample amounts of montage glue were used on the damn thing and I basically re-installed it from scratch. I re-installed the tap on the front and glued a wooden peg into the hole in the back, smearing so much montage glue in the hole it can never ever get out again. *
I finished the final bits of installing yesterday when I plugged the small PVC pipe, on both ends covered in montage glue, into the drain pipe and the rain barrel and everything was connected again. Right in time for this morning's amazing thunderstorm. I took a bus to work to avoid it.
As I returned home the rain had passed and imagine my surprise when I took the lid off the rain barrel and was nearly doused in water because it is filled to the brim!
We have a large expanse of flat roof in the back of the house, so we do gather a lot of water, but now I'm thinking one barrel might not suffice and digging a hole for a 200 gallon tank may be a bit too ambitious. But there, I fixed it. Finally.
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*) Of course, evidence to this fact is still being gathered by independant scientists, but one can hope.
Ample amounts of montage glue were used on the damn thing and I basically re-installed it from scratch. I re-installed the tap on the front and glued a wooden peg into the hole in the back, smearing so much montage glue in the hole it can never ever get out again. *
I finished the final bits of installing yesterday when I plugged the small PVC pipe, on both ends covered in montage glue, into the drain pipe and the rain barrel and everything was connected again. Right in time for this morning's amazing thunderstorm. I took a bus to work to avoid it.
As I returned home the rain had passed and imagine my surprise when I took the lid off the rain barrel and was nearly doused in water because it is filled to the brim!
We have a large expanse of flat roof in the back of the house, so we do gather a lot of water, but now I'm thinking one barrel might not suffice and digging a hole for a 200 gallon tank may be a bit too ambitious. But there, I fixed it. Finally.
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*) Of course, evidence to this fact is still being gathered by independant scientists, but one can hope.
