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Getting round the hosepipe ban
LargeAddick
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get yourself a bore hole drilled in your garden and away you go. Most places the water table is only a few metres down, attach a pump, attach your hose and water away to your hearts content using a hose legally. Water the veggies, wash the car - every day if you want. Will set you back about £1,500 but you can extract up to 20,000 litres a day without needing a license. Most households use 150 litres a day. And all this water is free as you are not charged and it is not metered.
Anyone think, like me, that this is inherently wrong. What if we all did this. Would certainly be a water shortage then.
Anyone think, like me, that this is inherently wrong. What if we all did this. Would certainly be a water shortage then.
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Apparently if you have a blue badge you are able to use a hose to water your garden - so I have decided to rent My sister out for the summer on hose duty - if you want a lush green lawn, or the tallest sunflowers in your street - let me know - lol ;-)0
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As much as I would like to rent your sister out Adam, I fear it is only their residence that they can use the hose on. Therefore I would be paying for your sister to have a nice lawn rather than me.0
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I dont think the bore hole thing works to extent you can take what you want - I dont know how it works, but overheard a conversation that they are limited to how much they can take as it affects the water table0
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just drink all summer and piss in the garden0
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I was told at work the other day that it was ok to use one as it was for 'business use'. Didn't make sense to me.0
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Surely buying and using a watering can would be a much simpler, cheaper and easier way to get your garden watered? A bucket also works perfectly well for washing the car.0
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We had to make a big call this year as to the putting the spa/hottub into use. In the end a sense of duty prevailed and it has no water in it
No way I am using a bucket to fill that up.0 -
I bought a Karcher pressure washer about a week before the ban was announced!0
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Top tip
Encourage your neighbour that live slightly uphill from you to use a hosepipe, the water will seep into the soil and the roots from your garden will feed from that.
If this doesnt benefit your garden, you can simply snitch on your neighbour for using a hosepipe and with the reward money buy yourself some new turf.0 -
I dont think the bore hole thing works to extent you can take what you want - I dont know how it works, but overheard a conversation that they are limited to how much they can take as it affects the water table
yes, limited to 20,000 litres A DAY
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We had to make a big call this year as to the putting the spa/hottub into use. In the end a sense of duty prevailed and it has no water in it
way to go. A hot tub without water.
No way I am using a bucket to fill that up.
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How to get around the hosepipe ban?
Build a nice patio.
Or, like me, fail to give a sh*t about what your garden looks like.0 -
If you own chickens your aloud to use a hose in your garden.
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just drink all summer and piss in the garden
This.
There's one "hose" they can't stop you using in your own back garden!0 -
I have to laugh at this. I had an extension built last year, the builders were on site for approx 3 months and we used to get up and go to work and leave them to it.just drink all summer and piss in the garden
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There's one "hose" they can't stop you using in your own back garden!
At the beginning of the job we explained they were welcome to make a cup of tea and use the toilet etc however I discovered half way through the job that instead of taking their boots off and coming in for a piss thy were walking down to the bottom of the garden and pissing in between my green house and shed which is out of sight and not over looked.
Feck me the flower and weed growth in that area now is unstoppable and I am sure it has something to do with the added piss.
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Ignore it - it's just a publicity stunt.
We live on an island, surrounded by water. We have a canal network that can transport water from the wet side of the country to the dry side. The water companies make exhorbitant profits, yet won't invest in infrastructure. The amount of leakage from pipework is a national scandal. It hasn't stopped raining since the ban was introduced.
Re-nationalise this natural resource and make it work for the people, not the fat cats in the water companies and foreign 'investors'.0 -
You are not related to North London Addick are you Addickted?
May I ask how big your balls are :-)0 -
If you have an outside tap leave it on and it will eventually flood the garden. If you want a paddling pool filled up position it under the outside tap
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Essex hasn't got a hosepipe ban (yet): you could run a very, very long hosepipe from my outside tap....0
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Ignore it - it's just a publicity stunt.
Whilst this is true, its a stunt which comes with a £1000 if your neighbours are ****s (insert own word according to taste / depravity)
We live on an island, surrounded by water. We have a canal network that can transport water from the wet side of the country to the dry side. The water companies make exhorbitant profits, yet won't invest in infrastructure. The amount of leakage from pipework is a national scandal. It hasn't stopped raining since the ban was introduced.
Re-nationalise this natural resource and make it work for the people, not the fat cats in the water companies and foreign 'investors'.0 -
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Nobody has ever been fined £1,000 for using their hosepipe during a ban.0
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Three strikes and you're out. Two warnings then a fine, apparently.0
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I have to laugh at this. I had an extension built last year,just drink all summer and piss in the garden
This.
There's one "hose" they can't stop you using in your own back garden!0
