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Hosepipe Ban
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Cue
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Cost me a grand to fill out our garden with plants so if they think I’m going to completely avoid watering it for an age they can do one. Especially with no rain coming in...
Good thing I filled the pool a month ago really.
Hosepipe bans are more of a “don’t be silly with water in the garden” thing than a “don’t use it at all” thing anyway aren’t they?
Good thing I filled the pool a month ago really.
Hosepipe bans are more of a “don’t be silly with water in the garden” thing than a “don’t use it at all” thing anyway aren’t they?
Thehooperman
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Gramaisc
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There can be some 'strange' effects of the regulations. In the past, it really was a hosepipe ban - you could water the garden as much as you liked, using fresh tap water ferried in watering cans or buckets, but you couldn't use a hose to siphon used bathwater into the garden.
I thought you were allowed to use a hosepipe as long as it wasn't connected to the mains supply?
staffordjas
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Hubbys work mate lives north end of town and received a letter from ST through her door apologising for any future loss of pressure. She didn't suffer the water loss that we did for hours the other night....not heard a thing from Severn Trent here!
Cue
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Would it be ok to have a crap in your pool if you use all of my toilet water on your plants then?
I agree really that if we are all sensible and not greedy there shouldn't really be a problem.
I’d use the pool water on the plants in an emergency but it’s full of chemicals that probably won’t do good things to plants
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Someone who lives near me decided to empty his hot tub once. He did so by draining all the water and letting his lawn absorb it. Not only did it kill much of his lawn, but it killed an apple and a plum tree and his neighbours hedge. His neighbour sued him.I’d use the pool water on the plants in an emergency but it’s full of chemicals that probably won’t do good things to plants
Cue
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Yeah draining any large body of water into a lawn is going to do really bad things, even without chemicals. That's not a terribly smart thing to do.
Noah
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Gramaisc
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The source of the water is the issue - if your bath water has been supplied from the mains, then subsequently moving it via a hosepipe does leave you open to the jobsworths...
Section 76 of the Water Industry Act 1991 (temporary hosepipe bans) (Flood and Water Management Act 2010)
76 Temporary bans on use
(1) A water undertaker may prohibit one or more specified uses of water supplied by it if it thinks that it is experiencing, or may experience, a serious shortage of water for distribution.
(2) Only the following uses of water may be prohibited—
(a) watering a garden using a hosepipe;
(b) cleaning a private motor-vehicle using a hosepipe;
(c) watering plants on domestic or other non-commercial premises using a hosepipe;
(d) cleaning a private leisure boat using a hosepipe;
(e) filling or maintaining a domestic swimming or paddling pool;
(f) drawing water, using a hosepipe, for domestic recreational use;
(g) filling or maintaining a domestic pond using a hosepipe;
(h) filling or maintaining an ornamental fountain;
(i) cleaning walls, or windows, of domestic premises using a hosepipe;
(j) cleaning paths or patios using a hosepipe;
(k) cleaning other artificial outdoor surfaces using a hosepipe.
Gramaisc
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They avoid mention of a hosepipe on (e) and (h), in case they are plumbed in 'solidly', to avoid a loophole there.
Bob
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The kids LOVE the paddling pool, I'd be very disappointed to see it have to be put away, it's not a massive one but the water needs changing every other day at least, I'd rather not have to fill it with chemicals but I may have to just to be able to keep hold of it for that little bit longer.
Weather forecast showing dry to the 15th now, I'd be amazed if they don't bring a ban in before then.
Weather forecast showing dry to the 15th now, I'd be amazed if they don't bring a ban in before then.
Thehooperman
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Or a watering can with a spout that looks like very similar to a hosepipe?