(26 September 2013, 11:38)Skean Dhude Wrote: This is one of those situations where it works out OK because there was never a real risk but goes to show what happens when you leave things undone, your tired, or its just too much for one day and you leave it. Next thing something gets trodden on, it breaks and you are screwed.
Exactly SD
Sods law is always there trying to catch you out.
On this occasion, I'm focussed on the water issue and in particular the installation this weekend. That drove me to do a clean of the water filter, which was left incomplete as a result of a hard day.
If the world had gone TU this morning it would have been, how shall I say it... inconvenient! Not immediately life threatening but challenging.
Thinking it through:
50 L stored, a further 50L in various bottles among the stores, Min 60L recoverable from the pipework and hot water tank. Total 160L . On my own I can eek that out for nearly three months in lock down mode, during that time I will be able to rainwater harvest, filter and sterilise to top up. So without leaving the property I'd probably have had sufficient to get me through to next spring.. but I'd come out the end of this rather smelly!
Using the same math, but excluding rainwater harvesting, were the planned system in place this morning at the time of water cut-off, I'd have had a reserve of 2,300L ....enough for a year or so, and a little left over for my six-monthly bath!
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