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tweake

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#3180174 10-Jan-2024 19:27

cars will rip a cheap lay flat hose apart really quickly. they are cheap for a reason. +1.5" is an impact for a car. certainly ramps would be required.

traderstu

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#3180270 10-Jan-2024 21:10

I have seen a situation where a cocky has strung alkathene across a road between 2 poles, supported by fencing wire. You need to be 4.2m (IIRC) above the road to give adequate clearance. Don't be tempted to use power poles - the lines company will get very grumpy.

LostOhSoLost

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#3180622 11-Jan-2024 15:53

Probably not practical, but could you just squirt it across the road, in to say a open topped IBC that gravity feeds to your tank?

Hwale

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#3180623 11-Jan-2024 15:56

LostOhSoLost:

Probably not practical, but could you just squirt it across the road, in to say a open topped IBC that gravity feeds to your tank?

I did think about just launching it onto my roof where it will drain into the tank from there. I'd still need to be present to do that though so I may aswell just stop traffic and decouple the hose.

Tinkerisk

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#3181540 13-Jan-2024 20:47

In such cases, we use two water circuits (in Germany), which must be separated from each other without feedback. On the one hand, the usual, good drinking water of mineral water quality from the tap that we want to save as much as possible and, on the other hand, collected groundwater, rainwater or surface water that is used for the washing machine*, flushing the toilet, cleaning work and watering the garden plants in summer. Usually mechanically filtered in an underground cistern or stored cool and dark in a (stainless steel) tank. From there, it is fed into the second domestic water circuit via a domestic waterworks (pump with pressure drop regulator).

*There are also washing machines with two domestic hot water connections, the second of which uses hot water from the heating circuit so that no additional electricity is needed to generate heat.

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MadEngineer

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#3186524 25-Jan-2024 18:38

Did you say you had to also get it over some railway tracks?

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#3186564 25-Jan-2024 20:40

MadEngineer:

Did you say you had to also get it over some railway tracks?

That would work okay so long as it’s only light rail. But we don’t have that in NZ.

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#3186572 25-Jan-2024 22:12

*There are also washing machines with two domestic hot water connections, the second of which uses hot water from the heating circuit so that no additional electricity is needed to generate heat.

How does the washing machine decide which one to use?

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#3186584 25-Jan-2024 22:27

In warm weather you probably wouldn’t have hot water circulating in the heating system so the washing machine would use its usual supply.

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