Hi
I have a large 44 gallon plastic wine barrel that i want to use as a water tank (we have drought here in australia). I want to connect this to the down pipe that drains water off the roof of my apartment building. I had thought this would be a simple procedure of getting some fittings from a plumbing store but it's not working out that way.
The down pipe measures 107.5mm on the outside diameter, which i think is actually meant to be 4 1/4 inch OD. This is my first problem as the standards are metric here and 100mm is all that people stock in terms of diameters of parts. So the only solution the guy at the store came up with i was getting a Boss Clamp called DWV PVC 100x50x87d (picture attached) and having this flow into the top of the wine barrel.
The boss clamp (which i bought) looks like a t-junction that attaches to the side of my 4 1/4 inch pipe. I'll need to drill a 70mm hole in the pipe to allow for the t-junction to take some of the water into my wine barrel. I will then have a cap that i will screw onto the boss clamp when the wine barrel is full.
So, my problems are that the boss clamp doesn't even fit the downpipe anyway so it will require a bit of heating to mold it to the larger size (as well as a lot of silicon). So there's the problem that i won't get a good seal and the large amount of water that can come down that pipe i a downpore could leak out.
The other problem that i'm also worried about is that i won't get any water flowing through my t-junction. I'm on the first of seven floors and by the time the water gets to me it doesn't want to take a 90 degree turn to come into my wine barrel (i assume) so i'm worried all this construction won't get me any water. Perhaps i was thinking i'd need a little lip on the inside of the downpipe to direct water into the t-junction. What do you think? is this a really bad idea - creating a bit of obstruction in the down pipe to get some water into my t-junction? Perhaps this lip need to be removable so that when i'm not taking water into my wine barrel i don't still have that obstruction there.
I've held off on constructing anything yet as i'm still thinking of returning the boss clamp as it's not a bolt on solution to my problem.
Does anyone have any advise?
thanks very much guys
orfeo
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I have a large 44 gallon plastic wine barrel that i want to use as a water tank (we have drought here in australia). I want to connect this to the down pipe that drains water off the roof of my apartment building. I had thought this would be a simple procedure of getting some fittings from a plumbing store but it's not working out that way.
The down pipe measures 107.5mm on the outside diameter, which i think is actually meant to be 4 1/4 inch OD. This is my first problem as the standards are metric here and 100mm is all that people stock in terms of diameters of parts. So the only solution the guy at the store came up with i was getting a Boss Clamp called DWV PVC 100x50x87d (picture attached) and having this flow into the top of the wine barrel.
The boss clamp (which i bought) looks like a t-junction that attaches to the side of my 4 1/4 inch pipe. I'll need to drill a 70mm hole in the pipe to allow for the t-junction to take some of the water into my wine barrel. I will then have a cap that i will screw onto the boss clamp when the wine barrel is full.
So, my problems are that the boss clamp doesn't even fit the downpipe anyway so it will require a bit of heating to mold it to the larger size (as well as a lot of silicon). So there's the problem that i won't get a good seal and the large amount of water that can come down that pipe i a downpore could leak out.
The other problem that i'm also worried about is that i won't get any water flowing through my t-junction. I'm on the first of seven floors and by the time the water gets to me it doesn't want to take a 90 degree turn to come into my wine barrel (i assume) so i'm worried all this construction won't get me any water. Perhaps i was thinking i'd need a little lip on the inside of the downpipe to direct water into the t-junction. What do you think? is this a really bad idea - creating a bit of obstruction in the down pipe to get some water into my t-junction? Perhaps this lip need to be removable so that when i'm not taking water into my wine barrel i don't still have that obstruction there.
I've held off on constructing anything yet as i'm still thinking of returning the boss clamp as it's not a bolt on solution to my problem.
Does anyone have any advise?
thanks very much guys
orfeo
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