[permaculture] low pressure faucets for rainwater

woodsjay at cox.net woodsjay at cox.net
Tue Oct 21 17:23:09 EDT 2008


Consider using 3/4 inch molasses gate valves. They are also better at handling tramp in the lines.

An example with illustrations is at http://www.northstate.com/elecpipe/en-us/dept_116.html.

---- Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> As I feared, my newly installed indoor faucets will not let any of the water from my rainwater tanks through.  Does anyone know where to find faucets for very low pressure applications, or how to turn one of these stupid new faucets into a low pressure faucet?  
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> The tanks are behind my house and only provide 0-4 feet of head above the use point.  I may have to resort to a tank on the hill above my house designed to provide shower water, but that will only be about 10 feet higher.  I should have plumbed everything with bigger PEX pipe, but my sources of information were wrong.  Oh, the frustration!
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> Thanks,
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> Rain
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