IBC Water Catchment & Storage Setup Complete

[The Unusual Fruit Garden]

I've just finally finished setting up my IBC water tank storage setup, running guttering around my garage and shed feeding directly into a 1000l IBC tank, hopefully this should be enough to keep me going and avoid tap water as much as possible, here's the setup for anyone interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qvyd22Mb3w

[Dalrimple]

just two small points you could do with a fillter or a net to stop the leaves that will fall from those trees and what going to happen to the water when the ibc is full ? looking good though and not cost a lot to set up well done ! atb Dal.

[The Unusual Fruit Garden]

Thanks, I've already wrapped some spare fleece around the top hole to stop any rubbish falling into the tank for now until I make a more permanent bung. I highly doubt I'll get to the point it will be full and overflowing but if that does ever happen, I have a spare 200l blue container I could use with an overflow pipe from ibc to blue container, but as said I can't see that being much of an issue and would be a nice problem to have

[cuffbertt]

Looks good! I'm thinking of doing something similar in my garden, although my garage has a sharp corner on the top (i.e. no overhang for the water to run off ) so I have to figure out how to attach the guttering first!

Are you planning on making the tank light tight to prevent algae? I have no idea if it's really a problem or not but a lot of the "how to" guides I've read recently seem to indicate it is

[burnie]

I did something similar on a smaller scale some years back, when the algae grew and the water went green I dropped a bag of live Daphnia in(bought from a local fish supplier) and they ate all the algae and my fish got some high protein grub too.

[nickdub]

Just as a matter of interest did you do anything special to clean out your IBC's ? I bought two recently and they have some white gloopy residue in the bottom, which has a distinct gasoline type smell to it.

I've just left them for now, as I have several other things on, but I intend getting them set up for water storage by the Autumn.

[NatalieCooke]

I'm also on the look out for an IBC. There's plenty around my area but its just getting them back home.