Hosepipe Ban

[Steven]

Hi Colombus

Yes,Anglian water do use a helicopter/light plane,but this is only deployed in times of drought to see which gardens have lush green lawns-when they should be brown.From the air-they have almost zero chance of spotting a sprinkler in use,but they do also check from the kerbside...

[Steven]

[Roy Bham UK]

Sounds like they are using a sledge hammer to crack a nut, ::) them flying machines cost at least a £1000.00 an hour to run. :o (Comes out the Bill ;D) Why not rely on the whistleblowers on a freephone number? There's enough of em about, Tsh! ::)

[SpeedyMango]

A friend of mine has rigged up a system that can direct bathwater into his huge water tank in the garden, which he then uses for irrigation (seep hoses etc). Obviously not very useful for a lottie some distance from your bath. Baths on the allotments, anyone?

I would be interested to hear how your friend did that SpeedyMango.

I will check when I see him next, but I seem to recall that he put some sort of diversion valve/tap on the waste outlet from the bath, so it could either go to waste (if there was a lot of soap/bubbles in the water) or be directed to the water tank.

[derbex]

I've seen a valve like this for sale somewhere, had a couple of bits of string on it so you could switch.

Otherwise you could just siphon the water out of the bath/shower (put the plug in). With that head of water you could probably run a sprinkler off it!

Jeremy

[tim]

Baths?
Showers? 12 mins?
You haven't been born!!

Bath or shower, we had a 4 gall petrol tin. You had it in the 'camp bath' or, pierced at the base, as a shower. Hoisted up by your bearer. NOT 12 min!!


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/bath1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/shower.jpg

[Svea]

oooh, tim, is that you? ;)

[tim]

Near! I took the photo.

[Clayhithe]

A neighour of ours once ran a surface pipe from his kitchen to a standpipe at the end of his garden.

The Water Board (!) called it a hosepipe and prosecuted him.
Hefty fine :(

[Steven]

A neighour of ours once ran a surface pipe from his kitchen to a standpipe at the end of his garden.

The Water Board (!) called it a hosepipe and prosecuted him.
Hefty fine :(

A bloke i work with used to own a garage for repairing cars etc and one day-the waterboard paid him a visit because he wasnt paying them anything.He explained that his garage didnt actually have a mains water supply and he collected rainwater for general use & used toilet in relatives house nearby.Water man didnt believe him and spent 2 days scanning the yard with somesort of elecy gizmo-only to then agree and tell him that the waterboard own ANY water which comes from the sky and he will have to pay! Only was something like £20 per year,but gave him something to laugh about when thinking about the man feveriously scanning his yard!

[Columbus]

Hi Steven,

I believe that water companies can charge you for run off from a roof that goes into the storm drains. You pay for  the use of their storm drains and sewers. I think charges can go up if you build an extension or garage onto your house.

Col