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I have a lot of whisky. Love the smokey stuff, but can appreciate most of the single malts.

I suppose I could try that first! Trying to sort tanks this week.

collect on shed roof into tanks costing £150. Pump to header tank. Use to wash down concrete after use. I was trying to keep it simple

@Canoeboy did you get chance to ask your pump man?

Guys - my TD5 has a butchered sump plug. Someone has tapped it out much larger than standard and re threaded. They have further bodged it by taking an existing sump type nut - filling off the edges and welding it to a larger nut! The shank diameter fits slightly loosely in the jaws of a 16mm...

Clarke one will turn on and off with use and has no flow protection https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-epc800-electronic-water-pump-control-un/ with https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/051016200/ I just want a system that I can fit and forget (accept will need to empty filters etc).

Thank you I'm not seeing why I need one in the supply tank? They should always be full of water? Could I use what I linked in #28? On and off in the header tank would be my preference.

There is ~2m of pipe stuck out the ground at each end (with the ends taped up). I can plumb it up to anything. I haven't even bought the tanks yet - I was going to go with 2 layers of 3 tanks all plumbed together. The only rule is that it can't be stupidly expensive as we are already way over...

The 6 IBC containers will be outside and store the water. There will be a small header tank on the lab roof that will hold the immediate supply for a pressure washer - ~200 litres - whatever I can spec for little money. The header tank will hold more water than I am ever likely to use in a...

What was wrong with my suggestion: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Inline-Water-Pump-Centrifugal-1-inch-BSP-Cast-Iron-IBC-Water-Pump-IBC-Fitting-/281134830013?hash=item4174f111bd:g:H9gAAOSwd4tUKoTu

There's a magic height where water gets very hard to pump - I had a feeling it was something like 10m - something to do with the intrinsic weight of the column of water. Anyways

If you see the diagram - I would plan to put the pump inside the shed where the pipe enters the building. I can raise the feeder tanks so they are slightly above the pump. I expect the water level to be considerably above the pump. This way it can live indoors and be easily accessible. I...

The water will be used for washing down the shed floor after treating animals. Sometimes it can be bloody etc. Adding a jug of hypochloride every now and again is very doable. It's would also be possible to fill the header tank (the first time) with a hose so the transfer pipe would remain full...

Sometime in the next month, no great rush.

Currently the lab is built (as of today) and there is the pipe buried in the slab. Everything at this point is flexible - except the 20mm poly pipe is very much fixed.

Once we get onto the 20mm there will be 2 elbows. The IBC containers will either have an elbow each or a T piece fitting. Stacked in 2 layers. Maybe 3 elbows max

On the morning the concrete was coming I remembered I had forgotten to put a pipe in for this task - all I had was a roll of 20mm blue MDPE polypipe, so that is what I used.

The IBC tanks will be outside and connected together with 25mm pipe. A 20mm pipe is buried under the concrete. The tank will be inside a shed on the roof of a lab - in an enclosed agricultural type shed - that is not bought as yet. so can be anything, but not massive or I'll have to put a lot...

Plan is to collect rainwater in 6 X 1000l IBC containers, connected together (outside). A pipe then runs ~12m underground and then needs to rise 3m to fill a header tank. The header tank is to feed a pressure washer - that can run off a ground level water-butt.  What is the best way of moving...

Is there access under the floor upstairs? Can you come out through the external wall at floor joist level? There are various wireless switch options: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Lighting_External_Index/Lighting_Garden_and_Lantern_Index/EasySwitch/index.html#EasySwitch_Transmitters