Water water – please

It’s raining today - and about time too the water tank was down to the last third. Water tank reorganisation is another thing on the reasonably urgent to do list. The water supply is rainwater and it only collects rain from one side of the house – leaving the other side of the house and the garage uncollected. I guess there is a reason for this but at this point we are not sure what the reason might be as it would appear relatively simple to run the garage downpipe and the other side of the house to the water tank. Would not have thought that a collection area of 60 square metres was sufficient to supply a three bedroom household and water stock – perhaps it rains more round here than elsewhere in the district…

The last owners have dug a couple of holes in the lowest points of two paddocks. I guess that is to collect water, though it wasn’t working very well the other day… may work a bit better today but I’m not going down there in the rain to find out. Though wouldn’t you need to line these holes with something to seriously collect water?

But not on the floor

I filled the fish tank yesterday, set up the heater and filter and all seemed to be running fine. Got up this morning to find a rather large patch of wet carpet. The filter has a seal that obviously needs replacing. The leak is only a drip but a steady drip is a lot of water… (about 20 litres judging from the drop in the level of the fish tank)