How to Install a Rainwater Collection System | This Old House

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook installs a rainwater collection system for yard and garden irrigation. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for How to Install a Rainwater Collection System:
– 650-gallon rainwater pillow kit
– heavy-duty plastic tarp
– PVC pipe and assorted fittings
– PVC primer and cement
– anti-siphoning valve
– garden hose and lawn sprinkler
– bark mulch

Tools for How to Install a Rainwater Collection System:
– push broom
– hammer and cold chisel
– PVC pipe handsaw
– drill/driver
– shovel

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  • You should put a 1000 gallon tank underground, maybe two and that could be an emergency water supply. It would be perfect in Kalifornication, but it's illegal to use rain storage there. If I lived in Kalifornication I would just install them the tanks at night and screw the democrat politicians.

  • Of course, don’t let your states DEP, or federal EPA get word of you doing this!

  • I wonder what it would cost - materials and labor - to have a company install this system?

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