Page 2 - Rainwater Harvesting

Harvesting rainwater is not a modern invention, it has been used for thousands of years
The spiralling cost of water and future cost implications will encourage many hospitality premises to look at rainwater collection as an environmental answer to an alternative water supply.
Hardened good clean rainwater has been a good alternative to the processed chemically charged water supply from the mains, used for 100’s of years by our ancestors.
Fibre glass storage tanks and stainless steel distribution loft tanks use 50mm distribution pipes. Simple lters are built into the tanks for easy cleaning and maintenance.A supply of good clean water can be obtained for many purposes.
The Aluline has developed a modular rain water harvesting system which is easily tted in any house or commercial premises. The simplicity of the design ensures ease of installation and the quality of materials used ensures hygiene standards are high. The system can be connected to streams, springs or tanks. It receives rain water run off from surfaces to supply water for various uses where no mains supply is available.
Filtering and directing rainfall to a tank is best controlled to remove as much suspended solids as possible.To this end a selection of lters are available. (Filters will require cleaning especially in Autumn).
The tank can be of any size, either buried in the garden or free standing.
(The size can be gauged on rainwater calculations.Tanks require regular checking and cleaning).
A header tank tted into a roof space is manufactured in austinetic A151304 stainless steel. The tank comes supplied with all regulation ttings.
A. Electricity is connected to a switched socket in the roof space.
B. A supply pipe is tted to an inlet valve.This runs into the storage tank.
C. A delivery pipe is connected to outlets and is branched into appliances fed by the system.
D. A mains supply can be connected to the header tank as an emergency back up if supply to the tank runs dry.