At the dachas (not at all) there is a central water supply, but the tap water is often cold and summer residents they defend water in barrels in order to start watering later, since it is strictly forbidden to water plants and vegetables with cold water, this can lead to their death, and this is not very desirable with how much effort and time was spent caring for this crop. And just washing your hands or washing your face is not very pleasant with cold water. Yes, and it is not uncommon that water can simply be turned off due to a breakdown of the water supply network.
From this it follows that it is necessary to make a supply of water and the more, the better for the summer resident and for his garden economy. The standard summer cottage reservoir is a large capacity for a couple of cubic meters of water, some have more, some have less. Water from such reservoirs has to be scooped up with buckets and then distributed according to your needs for irrigation or for a wash basin, or for other household needs.
The author decided to radically solve this problem and make a personal water tower from improvised means on his personal plot to save the family budget. And so what is the principle of this design: everything is simple, the author makes a farm from corners and channels, and installs containers on it, in this case two plastic barrels of 200 liters and connected them to each other, it turned out 400 liters of total volume. Water is supplied to the top from a common water supply hose (or personal well) The water above in the summer quickly heats up and settles.
Also, the author made the distribution of water pipes for the shower, for watering the beds with vegetables, for the washbasin, even his wife did something nice and connected a washing machine to the home water supply. The pressure is quite decent and the garden can be watered with warm, slop-water from a hose, which frees you from exhausting running around the garden with buckets and watering cans. And so we will consider further what the author needed to build a water tower do it yourself.
Materials: 200 l barrels, metal corners and channel, cement mortar, silicone sealant, plastic water pipe.
Instruments: welding machine, grinder, drill, hammer, pliers.
First of all, the author welded such a metal structure
Then he dug the legs into the ground and poured cement mortar so that the structure stood firmly on its feet.
Then, on top of this farm, I installed plastic barrels that will serve as a reservoir.
And the latter did the distribution of the water supply throughout the cottage for the wash basin, watering, shower, washing machine.
That's all, the author made his own water tower in the country with his own hands at minimal cost. You can no longer fear the shutdown of water in the summer cottage).