Temporary water and power solutions for static caravan

[Ejfraz]

Hi all,

 

looking for anyone who has some advice on how we can get a temporary water supply and power supply to our static caravan while we wait for Scottish water and sse to connect us. 
 

We are planning IBC tanks for water. (Seperate Bottled water for drinking). Will this work? Or does anyone have any other suggestions. 
 

Also for power we are planning a silent generator. But I need advice on what I should be looking for.

 

For info our caravan is heated by gas and the cooker is also gas.   
 

Many thanks!

[ProDave]

Are there neighbours or other plots you can get an extension lead and hose pipe from by agreement?

[Ejfraz]

Unfortunately not close enough. And there’s a burn to cross as well. 

Edited January 14, 2023 by Ejfraz

[Ejfraz]

8 minutes ago, ProDave said:

Are there neighbours or other plots you can get an extension lead and hose pipe from by agreement?

Unfortunately not. 

[PeterW]

1 hour ago, Ejfraz said:

We are planning IBC tanks for water

How will you fill them ..?

[ProDave]

If there is a burn is that clean enough for toilet flushing, washing etc and use bottled water for drinking and cooking?

[Kelvin]

A neighbour has a hokey setup with a pump in the burn that goes through a filtration system for one of their bothies. 

[saveasteading]

Our steading and the adjacent house get all the water via a well , then about 500m of pipe and a burn to cross. so crossing the burn isn't an issue. And for electrics you can feed it through a scaffold tube to cross the burn.

 

If you do the old test of walking up the burn to check for dead sheep, or possible drains , that will tell you the suitability for washing/flushing/even drinking.  Also google earth to save a very long walk.

 

Our project has IBC water for the works, coming from the spring. You could either have an intake upstream or pump the burn water when needed.

But encase the IBC to keep light out and perhaps insulate too.

We drink it but from the pipe not from the IBC.

 

For drinking, if you are concerned at quality, you could get it tested. Or buy one of these filters that turns swamp water to drinking water. I think this is still cheaper than buying bottled.

Better yet is find a neighbour or town tap to fill up.

[Ejfraz]

3 hours ago, ProDave said:

If there is a burn is that clean enough for toilet flushing, washing etc and use bottled water for drinking and cooking?

Yes the burn water could be used for this purpose. Would need a pump in the burn to pump it up to site and direct to caravan? Or direct into IBC tanks?

[Ejfraz]

1 hour ago, saveasteading said:

Our steading and the adjacent house get all the water via a well , then about 500m of pipe and a burn to cross. so crossing the burn isn't an issue. And for electrics you can feed it through a scaffold tube to cross the burn.

 

If you do the old test of walking up the burn to check for dead sheep, or possible drains , that will tell you the suitability for washing/flushing/even drinking.  Also google earth to save a very long walk.

 

Our project has IBC water for the works, coming from the spring. You could either have an intake upstream or pump the burn water when needed.

But encase the IBC to keep light out and perhaps insulate too.

We drink it but from the pipe not from the IBC.

 

For drinking, if you are concerned at quality, you could get it tested. Or buy one of these filters that turns swamp water to drinking water. I think this is still cheaper than buying bottled.

Better yet is find a neighbour or town tap to fill up.

I think the burn could work for water. Out site is a good few metres above the course of burn burn. So a pump would be needed. Could we pump the burn water directly into the caravan? Or would we use it to fill the IBC tanks and these will connect strictly to the caravan?

 

Power still an issue as we have nowhere to take power from. 

[Ejfraz]

3 hours ago, Kelvin said:

A neighbour has a hokey setup with a pump in the burn that goes through a filtration system for one of their bothies. 

This sounds ideal. Any more info?

[saveasteading]

I think the filtration system will be rather specialist and expensive. But perhaps install it in a hut and leave it as the permanent system.

We are doing that, with a 3m3 water tank in a shed (all made from reclaimed rafters) so that we can store whatever dribbles reach and have some storage to get through any droughts, or in extremis it is worth getting a tanker in.

 

Otherwise I would think you just fill the tank with a fairly primitive pump, as and when.

OR you make a catchment upstream, with a pipe off it to your tank. The catchment can allow the junk to fly past and the sediment to settle, but ensure you are getting moving, fresh water.

Then put an overflow at the top of the tank, back to the burn.

[Kelvin]

49 minutes ago, Ejfraz said:

This sounds ideal. Any more info?

 
I only saw it briefly when he was showing me round but it’s this kind of system. 

 

https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/bmb-1000-hydra-whole-house-water-filtration-system?campaign=googlebase&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-MCQ4cPH_AIVCrTtCh2d3AncEAQYASABEgJ56fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[saveasteading]

I am wondering if that array is only suitable for what is already officially potable water? 

ie improves the taste and takes out lime?

 

The burn water might, of course, be even cleaner with regards to minerals. But peat / other organics?

I think that perhaps needs a coarse filter and UV zapper as well.

[Kelvin]

I’m not saying it’s exactly that system I’m saying it looked similar to that rather than the big tanks a borehole filtration system might use. I don’t know whether they carried out a water analysis and put a filtration system together to deal with that. They also had UV system from memory.