HOW I MADE A RAINWATER SYSTEM TO FLUSH

HOW I MADE RAINWATER BARRELS TO FLUSH MY TOILET

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• RAINWATER
• RAIN
• BARRELS
• FIRST
• FLUSH
• TOILET
• HARVESTING
• HOSES
• BOOSTER
• PUMP
• RICH
• ALLEN
• rain
• led
• light

[johnnnyreb51]

Just found your videos and wanted to say "Great" work! Nice and simple but the one thing you do that most people do not, is explain what you did. Most people just post a video and say nothing at all. You get to watch and that's it. They tell the viewer nothing. It's not the scientists that will save the world, it's people like you. The tinkers.

[richallenmusic]

@johnnnyreb51 thanks i try to make vids you can use for info not just for show

[MarkH10]

Rich

Any riainwater system is nice, but obvious. Potability being an issue with most peeps/ You simple, amazing insight in using the water where potability is irrelevant is absolutely brilliant. I smacked my head, 'why didn't I think of that?'

However, given the use rate of flushes, I wonder if perhaps the use of gravity for force instead of a pump is viable? The trickle rate from gravity is fine for mere filling of a toilet tank, isn't it?

[richallenmusic]

@MarkH10 hi i wanted it to work just like normal so you dont know if your using rain water or city thats why the pump works great it only runs about a minute every flush using gravity would mean moving barrels plus it is to slow my wife would not like this has work great for me thanks for watching

[edogridge]

Rich - I have been watching all of your video's - very easy to follow. Thank you! Question.  If your soda can heater works as effenciently as it seems, can you use that to keep your rain water warm enough not to freeze during the winter? Unlike you - I'm not smart enough to do these things but the idea popped in my head and thought I'd ask. Again, thanks for all the great video's and education!

[richallenmusic]

@edogridge hi thanks for your comments if i got enough sun could do but i get just enough sun to mess around with this stuff because of the hills and trees ive added 2 more barrels we been on rain water from around spring only a couple of times i had to switch to city water untill rain again rich

[nx2overide]

man  this is pure genius!

[68NYC]

Interesting.

Thanks.

;0)

[914light]

Leave it to a dude to use a fishing bobber and an old gatorade bottle .... remarkable...plus you do have an excellent way of explaining !! ..I give 2 thumbs -up ;)

[emanuel2999]

very smart

[JustAskMe2010]

Love it! Simple step by step......Did I mention......LOVE ITTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!

[darthom]

Very neat. I was surprised you used the bob to trigger an led. Clever as that is, I thought you'd use it to trigger some sort of butterfly valve in the piping to automatically allow in the public water when the tanks were low.

[edvac1]

Excellent! That's one plastic bottle that won't end up in a landfill or out in the Pacific Gyre! Nice work. Thank you.