Connecting Water Tank To Gutter

These pipework systems come in two forms.

Connecting water tank to gutter.

Install easy to clean gutter screens that prevent debris from entering the gutter but don t prevent water flow. To prevent erosion make a rock bed around the end of the tube. The pcv pipe is quick and easy to connect and is glued with a water tight cement. To harvest rainwater you need to connect pipework to a downpipe from your roof gutter to your tank that water can flow through.

Obviously your tank will remain empty without pipes that lead rainwater into your tank. Generally most water tank installations involve using pvc stormwater pipe to direct rainwater from the gutter to the inlet of the tank as shown in the dry system image above. Join up the inlet use 90mm stormwater pipe to connect the downpipe from the roof gutter to the tank inlet hole. Direct the flow gutters and downpipes direct water to the tank.

This brief guide will help to show you how to connect a water tank. Attach the overflow cut 90mm pipe to fit from the overflow connection at the top of the tank to the drainage. These pipework systems come in two forms. Installing a rainwater tank would be pointless if it wasn t connected via pipes to your roof capture area.

Screw a drain cover over the end of the tubing as it approaches daylight to keep critters out. 1 dry system and 2 wet system. Where the tube passes by the downspout from the gutter we installed a y fitting and drained the roof water from the gutter system directly into the main drainage line.