Drip Irrigation System

[mhancock]

Hi,
 
I'm moving house and thinking of installing a drip system with automatic overflow to my tanks, using a fridge/freezer style inline filter and 1/4 inch tubing to take water to the tank.
 
I've two concerns with using 1/4 inch piping to do it though:

• With living in London, would it get blocked up with limescale, or would the in line filter prevent this happening after the filter unit?
• If I needed to take the overflow directly out of the house to a drain (no plumbing on the side of the house where the tanks will go), would the line freeze in the winter with such a low flow rate or is there a way round this?

Many thanks,
 
 
 
Mark

 

[DrRob]

First answer, yes, although it'll take a long time, personally I'd use a better HMA type filter personally, the fridge ones aren't so good, even from a drinking water point of view the difference it easy to taste and the kettle that ours fills from limescales up far more slowly on an HMA than it did on the fridge filter set up.
 
Second answer, yes. I'd need to see more of your situation to offer any sensible advice as to how to stop it, the simple answers though are a very wide bore pipe, clad heavily, buried as deep underground as they'll go, preferably heated or flushed occasionally with hot water. May be simpler to have a gradual slope to the plumbing.

 

[mhancock]

Has anyone in Kent/London done a project like this?