Washing My Car With A Hose And Rain Water.
 

With the current hose-pipe ban, I've been catching rain water from my garage roof gutter, which is massive. This goes into a 250 litre round plastic tank in my back garden, which is then piped to my pressure washer.

Is this legal? I've had funny looks from my neighbours, but that's about all.

I dont see why it wouldnt be legal.

You're not using mains water.

I run 4 x 800 liter tanks collecting water that would otherwise be drained away.

I use a 2 Bar automatic pump that supplies the toilets, washing machine and both outside taps (inc hosepipe etc)

I think I recall recently looking into the hosepipe ban (not that it affects us northerners) and I think the wording was quite specific about restrictions over what you do with water off the mains - As for (what is essentially) a big bucket of water that collected some rain as it came down, do with it as you please as far as I'm concerned... +++

Perfectly legal, hope you had a massive grin on your face when the neighbours saw you +++

I have 650 liter tank connected to my pressure washer. I have filled the tank during winter period with tap water, before the ban. Now I wonder if I can use that water.

Thanks guys! yeah, I grinned inanely at my neighbours, who then glared back.

Some folk just don't seem to get it - a dirty D2 is an unhappy D2, we can't have that! :ROFL:

Hahaha next time you are up here you can use my hose pipe!!!!! We don't have a ban :p

Nice work +++.

You're not on a water meter then?

A few years ago when i fell out with our water company about the cost of the water, I won’t bore you with the details but I was told that they have the rights to the water that falls in their area and you can only hold so much. Weather this is true or not I don’t know but if it is I would say that the water you hold in your stowage tanks belongs to the water company.

I'm quite taken with the idea of a small-ish tank with an air line feed off my compressor to achieve mains water pressure (not even sure what that is, but I'm assuming very little!) which I can fill from the tap/a bucket and plumb to my pressure washer

Seen some plastic tanks designed for motor homes but not seen anything specifically designed for what I want

Would love to drive a coach and horses around the intent of the hosepipe ban

I'm on water meter if it helps and technically I paid for the water I filled my tank with in winter.

Will be worth it, just to stroke those lovely typ 85's, that'll make my day, if not the year. Haven't seen a type 85 up close for over a year. :angry3: