Water harvester

[trowlerman]

Is it worth installing a water harvester if your bill is £ 1100 per year ??

 

[big-all]

what size off house do you have how many people how many rooms
and do you have a meter??

 

[cjard]

100 pound on water a month at meter prices is just under ten thousand litres a month, aye carumba.. What are you doing? Refilling the hot tub every week?

 

[trowlerman]

It's a garden center , just an option that's all ....., so not worth it then ??

 

[big-all]

i suppose it will depend on the commercial rate for water
round here its £2 a tonne or per 1000litres domestic

 

[theprinceofdarkness]

I suppose its all down to your rainfall and size of your roof catchment area and the size/location of the holding tank(s). With a bill of £1100 p.a., you could throw £10K at the project and still have a very healthy return.
I don't know much about plants but an automatic watering system, based on timers could be beneficial. It would mean you could water the plants at midnight, so a litre of water goes into the soil without .2 litres being evaporated by the sun. So if you are not doing this a side by side comparison of the two different forms of watering could be tried out for a cost of less then £100.
Frank

 

[maltaron]

Cheap way if its for watering plants is IBC tanks, see http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WATER-STO...020?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1c469bb1dc. I can fill one of these with half days rain off half a bungalow roof. I have three and use one for the toilet and with our prices in the South West it saves me £8.00 per month.

 

[Nige F]

Dig a well