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  1. 5th December 2018, 04:26 PM #31
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    We have absolutely no stores of water food or fuel. Only so much room in a two bed rental flat. By the looks of some of the well off houses nearby I could always join the raiding parties, if the need arose.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    Can you ask the neighbour for a letter to the council agreeing to relax the distance rule?
    Nope, the neighbours are fine - we’re very good friends, and have a gate between backyards - always at each other’s place having a beer. It’s in the Estate bylaws type of thing - minimum 900mm clearance from any building (or tank as it turns out) to the fence line. Stupid really as the new estates have the gutters on their houses almost touching...

    Still, even if I could, I’m not spending nearly $5.5K all in for a tank.
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  3. 5th December 2018, 05:46 PM #33
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    I could be wrong about Victoria, but up here if the neighbour gives written agreement, the council can relax the boundary restrictions. We have done this twice in Maleny when building carports with approval from the Sunshine Coast Council. Council approvals override estate by-laws, I believe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Homestar View Post
    Nope, the neighbours are fine - we’re very good friends, and have a gate between backyards - always at each other’s place having a beer. It’s in the Estate bylaws type of thing - minimum 900mm clearance from any building (or tank as it turns out) to the fence line. Stupid really as the new estates have the gutters on their houses almost touching...

    Still, even if I could, I’m not spending nearly $5.5K all in for a tank.
    If you that good with your neighbors just go for itPreparing for critical weather eventsjust say it was there when you bought the place Preparing for critical weather events
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  5. 5th December 2018, 05:59 PM #35
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    Estate by laws don't have much power really. The developers would have moved on long ago. If the council agrees, that's all that counts.
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    Agreed, but the Council don’t agree unfortunately. 😒
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    Quote Originally Posted by LRJim View Post
    If you that good with your neighbors just go for itPreparing for critical weather eventsjust say it was there when you bought the place Preparing for critical weather events
    Hard to claim that when I built the place... 😉

    Given that I could be selling I the next 12 months, no point either and I don’t want something here that hasn’t got a permit - you can’t get them retrospectively any more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Homestar View Post
    Hard to claim that when I built the place... Preparing for critical weather events

    Given that I could be selling I the next 12 months, no point either and I don’t want something here that hasn’t got a permit - you can’t get them retrospectively any more.
    Well yeah if your selling bugger it then!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Homestar View Post
    Hard to claim that when I built the place... 😉

    Given that I could be selling I the next 12 months, no point either and I don’t want something here that hasn’t got a permit - you can’t get them retrospectively any more.
    Well bugger, get the neighbor to put the tank in, give him $5 for a T and plumb into his
    problem solved
    Aint you fellows lucky there is some problem solvers amongst us
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    Quote Originally Posted by LRJim View Post
    Working at this Simmonds built house in sunbury, they have a rainwater tank and the tap says not suitable for drinking.
    Do people really think town water is better for you than rainwater??
    The only bonus in town water is the fluoride added to help your teeth otherwise you may as well drink from you local pool it's that feral.
    There are issues such as mosquitoes laying eggs in stagnant water in 'funny' spouting that hatch into wrigglers in tanks, pollen in the wattle flowering season clogging everything, dust that naturally settles out of the air when it rains settling in the bottom of tanks, etc.

    I've got 2x 22,500 litre tanks that get fed off a shed roof via a system that I made that takes all the dust and pollen out of what goes into storage. I'm not on the mains but could easily be if I wanted.

    The mosquito prob is best dealt with by ensuring spouts drain completely after rain, i.e. they've got the legal fall or better.

    It really isn't that hard to get to this stage, been about 5 years now with crystal clear water at my ponderosa.

    Simonds would never be allowed to call collected water 'potable' because of regulation.

    Pretty sure they wouldn't want to in any case.

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