Julia Winter wrote:Shane, that looks great! So, do you run the fire with a lid over the water, and then you get in the tub? Is the tub too hot to touch right over the fire (or where the fire was)? Do you have a wooden bottom inside the tub?
John C Daley wrote:Shane its not a matter of requirement, just a matter of making life easier for yourself.
I work all over the world with this stuff, rarely are there any 'legal ' requirements, first flush systems of any sort are just good sense.
In many poorer countries I have set up buckets with holes in them to just catch that initial water that may have impurities, bird, rodent poo etc.
In the west people rarely clean the first flush, other communities clean it after each rain event because they have seen the benefits of the cleaner water.
John C Daley wrote:Shane, your system sounds very good.
Did you fit first flush units to the down pipes, to stop dust, bird mess etc entering the sysatem?