How do you change your water????

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I usually work through the house. I have two tanks in the living room and one in the dinning room. I start with the dinning room which is closest to the kitchen. I have two 20 foot hoses. I run one hose from the tanks out the front door to my tomatos. The other hose I run from the kitchen sink to the first 55 in the dinning room and then move to the 75. While doing the 55 I have one bucket set aside with treated water for the amount that goes back in. For the 75 I set two buckets aside with treated water. I pore one in when I start and one to top off the tank. It can take me anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. Good times.

Spill wise I do it more then I like to admit. Never over filled the tank but I am always over filling the buckets. That is why I moved to the hose out the door. Last night I had a syphen going on one tank that did not have enough syphen going. While messing with the syphen I failed to notice the bucket was over flowing and my girlfriend could only laugh. So I dropped the syphen which started to work then. so yea that was my most recent.
 
siphon, buckets, waterhose

worst spill- closed fx5 valves before actually cleaning the fx5, then later, once I was getting ready to start cleaning it, I had forgotten that I'd already closed the valve, so I turned it again and disconnected the hose, so then water was gushing out of it, so then it took me like 5 straight seconds to get it turned off (I really don't do well under pressure). By the time I got it turned off, I had about an inch-and-a-half of water in the bottom of my tank stand.
 
I siphon out the "crap", then once that is done i hook up a hose to the tank and have it run out a pipe that leads the water out to the sewage drain...
 
I have a python "spill-n-fill" that hooks up to a sink. I use a small submersible fountain pump that I picked up at Harbor Freight for $10.00 to empty the tank (hooks right to the 1/2" Python kit) and to fill it I use the valve on the faucet. Worst spill about 5 gal. (hose came out of the sink while the pump was running)
 
I use a pump like you would find on a rain water tank. It is on a trolly so i roll it up to the door, hook up the hoses and fire up the electric pump. It fills a 200l drum which is one third my tank capacity. I have a 2l juice bottle on the end of the hose in the tank which sucks all the gravel clean but wont loose any up the tube. I then wheel it out into the yard and pump it back out onto the garden. Easy as that.
 
I have my 240 gallon on a constant drip, with an overflow plumbed into the household waste water.

Largest spill was in my laundry room while filling 5 gallon bucket with my R/O unit.I was watching TV and forgot about it.
 
I use the python system, maybe a couple drips down the glass as my worst spill
 
i do the smaller tank thing for now, biggest being 55, so i just keep a stack of 10gal containers full of water, and there is a window right next to my tanks so i can siphon them all out of the window easily, waste water for the garden, and i just top them up.. been thinking about building a water holding tank on an unused patio upstairs (cement floor) and running a hose with a spray nozzle from it down to my room, but then i'd have to plumb it into the house's water supply somewhere and thats just a bit of a hassle i dont want.
 
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