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      Educational DIY Rainwater Collection System – All Yo…

      This is a very detailed explanation of the project including part numbers and places to buy them. If you want the quick version just to see what was done, go to the bottom of this post and look at the YouTube video titled “DIY Rainwater Collection System”.

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      To figure out how much water you can catch, do the following calculation: Square footage of your roof X the amount of rain X 0.623 An example is my roof on my metal garage is 1224 (51 long X 24 wide) square feet. If we get 3/4 of one inch of rain, the calculation would be: 1224 X .75 (or 3/4) X 0.623 = 571.9 Gallons of water from 3/4″ of rain

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      The first issue we had is the downspouts were facing the wrong way. By that I mean they were coming down on the front side of the garage and not the back side where we needed them. The fix for that was to to remove both gutters and downspouts completely and swap them. The gutters originally on the left side went on the right and the gutters origina...

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      Where do you get that IBC tote from? I have found quite a few listed on Craig’s list. Just make sure they are food grade. Most of the Craig’s list adds don’t necessarily say food grade, so you will have to ask what was in them and make that determination for yourself. Many of them just had sugar water or something like that in them. What you don’t ...

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      We wanted the IBC Tote on the backside of the garage, but the ground wasn’t level. The solution here was to level the ground and then put some cinder blocks down and place the IBC tote on top of the cinder blocks. After the ground was level but b­­efore the cinder blocks went down we put down some weed cloth. Then the blocks were placed where they ...

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