After almost 3 days without water, our park was able to finally get the water main break fixed. I have been stressed, even if it was out of our hands. The workman started around 2 pm, by 430 we had water. Of course this happened just as we prepped our dinner.
I ran sink full hot water for dishes to soak, got a load of wash going. After I ate dinner, it was in the shower, followed by the rest of the family. Needless to say we all doubled or triple washed our self's.
I have now been in deep thought about water storage. Where to store, what size containers. We normally use around 7,000 gallons a month for all our needs. We buy jugs of cat litter every month, I am thinking of using them to store water for the toilet. We have room under the bathroom counter.
I am going to use our 5 gallon jugs for drinking water. I plan on saving our empty milk jugs rinse and refill with drinking water. I can move some things around in the kitchen and have room for the drinking water. This summer I could get 2 or 3 drums for water. We have some room in the shed The only thing is that the shed gets hot in the summer.
Well that closes this post. I anyone has any ideas or helpful information, I'm all ears.
Stay Safe, Alert, and Warm.
Rob
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Milk jugs will have milk residue if only rinsed; they need to be washed or BLEACHED. Drinking water needs to be rotated or replaced every so often (you can find info on that). Warm water in shed will be fine for bathing or flushing toilet, but will go bad quicker if not used.
Thank you for the information Sir
For the last several years I have been trying to figure out a way to always have on hand 50 gallons of fresh drinking water without thinking about it. The best way so far is to buy a 50 gallon water heater and plumb it into the homes incoming water pipe. This way whether you get a single glass of water from the kitchen sink or take a shower the water comes through/from the 50 gallon tank and new fresh water flowing into the tank to replace what’s used. This way you’ll always having the freshest water in the tank. When the water is turned off all you have to do is open the spigot at the bottom of the tank and drain off fresh water for what ever you need it for.
So glad your water is running again. I don't have room for large water barrels so I fill 2 liter soda bottles and juice bottles and stash them wherever I can. Make do with what I have, I guess.
What a wonderful idea. But it won't work for us as we are in a mobile home, and our tank access is from the outside. I thought about putting drums of water on a stand above the roof line to act as a water tower. The park and or the city will say no doings. If we lived on our own land I would set up four barrels on a stand built with 4x4 or 6x6. Build a fence around it. I will have to settle for jugs stored around the house. I the idea of using empty cat little jugs works good. Just enough water to flush the toilet.
I like the idea of 2 liter bottles, but they take up alot of room.I could use gallon jugs in the same space. I will spend more time investigating placement in the house
Rob, I store about 300 gallons of water as a routine precaution. Some is in one gallon Gatorade jugs. Some is in cat litter jugs ( I don't use that for drinking, just for flushing toilets) but most of it is in the big jugs that you see on water coolers. I can buy one of those jugs, prefilled, for $4.00 here, and though they are heavy, they store the most water for the least space. Sorry to hear you had to go through that, I know it must have been miserable.
thanks Harry it was not fun. We got the water restored, but now with the bitter cold our water pipe is Frozen. We have heat tapes and they seem to be working not sure what is going on. Talked with caretakers, he came out look to take a look, fixed a leak at water meter. He claims that we have frozen pipe.
I don't trust the guy. So now I will have to go under the house and check the heat tapes. The guy seemed like I was bothering him. We have been here four years, and keep a low profile. But this may get ugly. We are buying our place rent to own. Its close to being paid off. But I will start playing the renters game or go to the owners in Colorado.
Be interesting if I go to the court house and give them the payments next month. Here in MN if you are having land lord issues, you can go to the court house give them the payments due and force them to talk about issues in front of a judge.
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