02-04-2008, 08:51 AM
Wow, as usual I am blown away by this little community and their ability to come up with solutions and offer assistance. I hope that I can be as helpful to you someday.....
Jerry, a thousand thanks.....I am off island, but in communication with my friends and tenants. I will tell them about turning on the hose. That was so kind of you to offer, though. Let me know if I can bring you something from the mainland in June!
Les C: You remember it well. It's a below-patio-grade cement catchment. Now that I think of it, it is completely sealed. I don't ever know where you would put an overflow. The pipes go right throught the concrete. I guess I would need another hole ---yikes-- in the concrete. But yeah, gotta have some kind of overflow.
But it also seems like there should be some way of telling the water NOT to go into the tank in the first place. A diverter that sends it safely down the side of the house. I guess those are called gutters!
And the simple idea of turning on the bathtub, doh! I don't know why I didn't think of that. Probably because where I live we get ten inches of rain a year.....not in a day! (And the lilikoi margaritas may have dulled my senses).
Party for everyone when I am on island. Thanks again.
Jerry, a thousand thanks.....I am off island, but in communication with my friends and tenants. I will tell them about turning on the hose. That was so kind of you to offer, though. Let me know if I can bring you something from the mainland in June!
Les C: You remember it well. It's a below-patio-grade cement catchment. Now that I think of it, it is completely sealed. I don't ever know where you would put an overflow. The pipes go right throught the concrete. I guess I would need another hole ---yikes-- in the concrete. But yeah, gotta have some kind of overflow.
But it also seems like there should be some way of telling the water NOT to go into the tank in the first place. A diverter that sends it safely down the side of the house. I guess those are called gutters!
And the simple idea of turning on the bathtub, doh! I don't know why I didn't think of that. Probably because where I live we get ten inches of rain a year.....not in a day! (And the lilikoi margaritas may have dulled my senses).
Party for everyone when I am on island. Thanks again.