Connecting Water Tank To Gutter

Reader projects outdoor how to install a rain water tank step 1.

Connecting water tank to gutter.

These pipework systems come in two forms. To prevent erosion make a rock bed around the end of the tube. Installing a rainwater tank would be pointless if it wasn t connected via pipes to your roof capture area. To harvest rainwater you need to connect pipework to a downpipe from your roof gutter to your tank that water can flow through.

To harvest rainwater then you need to connect a pipework to a downpipe from your gutter to your tank that water can flow through. Install easy to clean gutter screens that prevent debris from entering the gutter but don t prevent water flow. Obviously your tank will remain empty without pipes that lead rainwater into your tank. Attach the overflow cut 90mm pipe to fit from the overflow connection at the top of the tank to the drainage.

Join up the inlet use 90mm stormwater pipe to connect the downpipe from the roof gutter to the tank inlet hole. 1 dry systems and 2 wet systems. This brief guide will help to show you how to connect a water tank. Where the tube passes by the downspout from the gutter we installed a y fitting and drained the roof water from the gutter system directly into the main drainage line.

These pipework systems come in two forms. Generally most water tank installations involve using pvc stormwater pipe to direct rainwater from the gutter to the inlet of the tank as shown in the dry system image above. Direct the flow gutters and downpipes direct water to the tank.