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Check out the best types of cistern design for your home, condominium, business or school

A cistern project can be the solution for those looking to store water for various uses such as washing patios, sidewalks, floors, cars, garages, toilets, plant rules, among others.

Purchasing a cistern to capture rainwater or reuse water is a way to save on the water bill and reduce the water footprint.

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But there are different types of cistern projects, which serve both homes and schools, condominiums and businesses.

Importance of the cistern

Reusing rainwater is, in itself, an environmentally friendly act, as it allows the use of rainwater instead of using the precious drinking water resource. But you can also take advantage of the cistern to use the reuse water from the washing machine, air conditioning, swimming pool, among others.

Some types of cisterns can be installed in any environment: rural or urban, house or apartment. And they represent a 50% savings in drinking water expenses.

Types of cistern design

The cisterns have different capacities according to your needs. There are models of mini-cisterns and cisterns in various sizes, from 80 liters, one thousand liters, 16 thousand liters, among others.

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• Types of cisterns: models from cement to plastic

Plastic cistern designs have large storage capacity and can be easily placed on terraces, hallways, garages and outdoor areas.

See the different Tecnotri brand cistern projects in the video.

In addition to tank models Tecnotri, there are the masonry models, buried, and the models of the Caselogic and of the waterbox(images below).

• Types of cisterns: models from cement to plastic

caseological cistern

waterbox cistern

There are water reuse kit options that allow you to use water even in small spaces. This is the case of mini-cistern models from Caselogic, gives Tecnotri and of the waterbox, sold in the eCycle Store. Using a mini-cistern is a very effective and easy to install way for houses, apartments and condominiums. They guarantee the safety and comfort of a larger cistern, without taking up a lot of space, in addition to not requiring renovations. Your pocket and the environment are grateful.

cistern project

To implement a cistern project, there must be planning. It is necessary to know what volume will be collected, the best installation location and where the water will be collected. The roof is the easiest place to install a cistern project - it can be the roof of the house, school, business or building; or the roof of the ballroom, the barbecue... The best cost-benefit is to use the structure of the place itself to install the rainwater supply system. The cistern can be installed in higher places and, by gravity, the water can be used in hoses or manually removed. To get to know the size of the cisterns you should use, just take the size of the roof (in square meters) and multiply it by the height of the region's rainfall (in meters), that is, the amount of rain. Thus, the result will be the volume in liters that it rains in your region.

If there is interest, with a greater investment, specialized companies can optimize the use of rainwater. The collected water can be sent to a second tank and connected to a specific network of pipes to supply the apartments individually. The building's hydraulic plans must be analyzed, studying the feasibility of the project and presenting the most suitable connection points without impacting the original hydraulic system.

• How to make a residential cistern

However, the most common is to want to use rainwater in the common areas of the condominium, so that the catchment project does not require major modifications to the hydraulic structure, so the investment is relatively low and the gains are significant. The cost of a cistern varies depending on its storage volume. They can be interconnected with others to increase the capacity of your storage project.

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