My dilemma is this:
I have a bad tendency of turning on my RO filter to fill some sparkletts jugs and forgetting about it. Sometimes overnight! This of course means I get the joy of waking up to water covering my garage floor and running down my driveway and then the eventual words from the SWMBO about the water bill.
This has happened about 5 times this year alone - not so ironically, much homebrew seems to be involved when it does happen!
I've ordered a float valve for my RO unit in thoughts of installing that into something 15-30 or so gallons and using that as my primary tank from which I will fill the sparkletts jugs as needed. We use the RO for both brewing and on a sparkletts dispenser in-house to cook with and drink.
So, I'm searching for a good storage tank that's both big enough to brew with on a brew day, but not so big that the water gets stale or starts growing anything. I'm looking for something with an open top so I can install the float valve, and it would also need to have a valve on the bottom for me to drain from (though, I can install that myself provided I can access it). Something that is less than $40 would be awesome, though so far, all I can seem to find is plastic drums which seem to run around $70+.
What do you use?
Any suggestions?
I have a bad tendency of turning on my RO filter to fill some sparkletts jugs and forgetting about it. Sometimes overnight! This of course means I get the joy of waking up to water covering my garage floor and running down my driveway and then the eventual words from the SWMBO about the water bill.
This has happened about 5 times this year alone - not so ironically, much homebrew seems to be involved when it does happen!
I've ordered a float valve for my RO unit in thoughts of installing that into something 15-30 or so gallons and using that as my primary tank from which I will fill the sparkletts jugs as needed. We use the RO for both brewing and on a sparkletts dispenser in-house to cook with and drink.
So, I'm searching for a good storage tank that's both big enough to brew with on a brew day, but not so big that the water gets stale or starts growing anything. I'm looking for something with an open top so I can install the float valve, and it would also need to have a valve on the bottom for me to drain from (though, I can install that myself provided I can access it). Something that is less than $40 would be awesome, though so far, all I can seem to find is plastic drums which seem to run around $70+.
What do you use?
Any suggestions?