Hose Ban

[The Basket]

Would any Southerners like to give me there hose pipes for the summer?

You will not be needing it!!! :D :lol: :D :wink:

[JakeRS]

ha bloody ha... was going to pressure wash my bike today then remembered... :cry:

[Dicky Ticker]

No ban ere Sunny Essex :lol:

[kwak zzr]

justify water rates then i'll use less.

[Peter Henry]

Well even down here in the hottest part of Spain our local reservoirs are now back up to 94% capacity. How can an island,with plenty of rain water on average,be even considering a hose pipe ban? Where does it all go??? :?

[mattSV]

No ban in my neck of the woods either :D

[GregK2]

Plants get watered by my big water butt, car & bike washed by bucket....I have a water meter & I'm tight.

Often go days without washing too.

[TC3]

Well even down here in the hottest part of Spain our local reservoirs are now back up to 94% capacity. How can an island,with plenty of rain water on average,be even considering a hose pipe ban? Where does it all go??? :?

They lose a lot of the water from leaks

[lew893]

I'm ok to wash me car as that comes to middlesbrough (lots and lots of water!) all the time when I'm off work (do 12hour shifts so lots of time off) but the bike stays in Ruislip so I have a hose pipe ban and I don't but still enjoy taking the pee as the southerners think its grim up here but at least our vehicles are clean!!!! :D

[RingDing]

It's not just a lack of rain but a lack of rain in the correct places. The greatest rainfall is in the south and west, due in part to geography as well as most common wind direction. However, the greatest population density is in the south east. Water in the south east comes mainly from natural underground reservoirs where water gets stored in rocks such as chalk. These are heavily dependant on wet winters to be topped up before the summer.

Accept it or move to Bristol, it never stops raining here! :D

P.

[chazzyb]

The water company's notice of a hose pipe in my local paper refers to 'private motor cars' only. :lol:

[Peter Henry]

Rain in the wrong places? :shock: I thought that whenever it rained it was in the wrong place? :P You sure it wasn't the fault of the wrong kind of rain,like the wrong kind of leavesd that fall on to rail tracks and paralyse the network? :wink:

*sigh* ah I miss England! :P

[Valman]

If Thames Water are your supplier than you are allowed to use a hose to wash your bike!
There is now a ban on the use of hosepipes or sprinklers for the watering of private (i.e. domestic) gardens, or for the washing of private cars, caravans or trailers. From the Thames Water website (http://www.thames-water.com/UK/region/en_gb/content/Section_Homepages/Multi_Download_000159.jsp?SECT=Multi_Download_0001 59).

A bike does not fall into these categories, so use a hose pipe if you want, you'll not be doing anything wrong! :lol:

It's interesting that you can still use a hosepipe to fill a bucket and even a swimming pool, and there's no ban on commercial use either. What's even more stupid is that I couldn't use my hosepipe to wash my car, so I paid a company to come round and wash it instead, and they did this by connecting their compressor to my water supply and that's fine. So I basically paid to have someone waste more water than me to wash my car as I would be breaking the law by using my own hosepipe to wash the car myself, even though I would have used less water. I thought the point of the ban is to save water??? :?

[goonrider]

Plants get watered by my big water butt, car & bike washed by bucket....I have a water meter & I'm tight.

Often go days without washing too.

Mate, you water the plants with you're Butt??, :lol:

...Now that's talent!


No problem down here in Surrey even with the Hose pipe ban, we just use Perrier with a twist of Lemon don't you know.
:roll:

[lynw]

Accept it or move to Bristol, it never stops raining here! :D

P.

I thought it was Manchester it never stopped raining in. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[carelesschucca]

Nup thats Scotland...

[lynw]

Nup thats Scotland...

Apparently the Lake District gives the Highlands a run for its money in terms of rain:

There is a misconception that the whole of Scotland experiences high rainfall. In fact, rainfall in Scotland varies widely, with a distribution closely related to the topography, ranging from over 3,000 mm per year in the western Highlands (similar to the total rainfall experienced in the mountains of the Lake District in England and Snowdonia in Wales) to under 800 mm per year near the east coast (comparable with the Midlands of England).

Im sure the SV Ecosse will find the above amusing :wink: :P :lol: :lol:

But from the Met Office UK Records:

Highest 24-hour total 279 mm Martinstown, near Dorchester, Dorset, 18 July 1955
Highest 5-min total *32 mm Preston, Lancashire, 10 August 1893
Highest 30-min total 80 mm Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway, 26 June 1953
Highest 60-min total 92 mm Maidenhead, Berkshire, 12 July 1901
Highest 90-min total 117 mm Dunsop Valley, Lancashire, 8 August 1967
Highest 120-min total *193 mm Walsaw Dean Lodge, West Yorkshire, 19 May 1989
Highest 155-min total 169 mm Hampstead, Greater London, 14 August 1975
Highest 180-min total 178 mm Horncastle, Lincolnshire, 7 October 1960

* Approximate value

Scotland only racks up the Highest 30 min total overall

I think its a myth to keep us from coming up and discovering those lovely empty and dry roads :P :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[jonboy]

Yes as Valman says, motorcycles are excluded from the ban, so you can wash away to your heart's content.


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