Posted: 8/18/2012 4:54:18 PM EDT
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I was listening to the radio and an ad for this place came on:
https://waterprepared.com/ Has anybody delt with them before? Seems kind of expensive, but that could be my inner cheapass talking.... |
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Quoted: I was listening to the radio and an ad for this place came on: https://waterprepared.com/ Has anybody delt with them before? Seems kind of expensive, but that could be my inner cheapass talking.... very expensive for what it does you could do a lot more for the money |
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Quoted: Quoted: I was listening to the radio and an ad for this place came on: https://waterprepared.com/ Has anybody delt with them before? Seems kind of expensive, but that could be my inner cheapass talking.... very expensive for what it does you could do a lot more for the money i dont store water but can you explain how to do it. |
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Quoted: i dont store water but can you explain how to do it. Hi OverScoped, What is the perfect water storage works out to have the same answer as "what is the perfect BOV?" It depends on your situation. You put a family of 6 in 800sf with no yard, no attic, and no garage. That makes the space devoted to preps very carefully allocated. No water tote on a shipping pallet. Family of one and no cash flow to buy things that are not food. Recycled juice, gatorade, or soda bottles. Large yard and some room to landscape. How about a decorative pond. Just some ideas. I think you have seen the pics I posted a couple years ago of the Nalgenes I had back then. Those were what I could have for water back then. Now days I have a few 2 liter soda bottles that I can use. |
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Kk, The linked site is selling a custom stackable water barrel for about $360. They say their $360 barrel holds 160 gallons. I think that 55 gallon food grade barrels are less that $120 each. A bunch less than $120 The cubical totes that are mounted on shipping pallets cost less than $360 for a food grade tote. I can get Tier One soda (Coke or DrPepper) on sale for a dollar per 2 liter bottle, so I could get 160 gallons of storage for just $320 by using soda bottles. I could buy a decorative pond for the yard or kiddie pool at an off season sale and a hikers water filter for less than $150. Now if a guy went with the MWC. He would need 32 MWCs to make 160 gallons of capacity @ $20 each = $640. Last method on my list is Nalgene bottles. 160 gallons is 608 liters if I did the math right. REI has some 1.5 liter Nalgenes for about 10 and a fella woulld need 405 of these to get the 608 liters of capacity or $4050 at your local REI. So the linked container is not the most expensive, but it is not the least expensive by far. As I said in the other post. Each person is going to have different resources of space, time, and money that can be allocated to any one area of preparedness infrastructure. These resources then have to be balanced against an estimate of needs based on the risks that a person faces. I realize that I probably made more questions than answers with this post, but I hope that I have pointed out that solving a survival storage problem is only limited by an individual's creativity. Hope this helps |
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You can get 275 gallon water totes for pretty cheap. My company goes through a few of these a month and sends them off to the recycler to cut up and crush. The recycler gets hundreds of these and will sell them to the public for their scrap value (saves them time and effort to cut up and crush) of about +/- $30.
Just look at the label to see what chemical was in them and make sure it is not a harmful chemical. A lot of chemicals look scary but are used in food processing regularly and are safe for human consumption in very dilute amounts (i.e. rinse it out). For example our totes say hypoclorite which is used to add chlorine to keep bacteria count down in food processing and is perfectly fine for rinsing out and storing water. So call your local recycle company and see what they have. |
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I was listening to the radio and an ad for this place came on: https://waterprepared.com/ Has anybody delt with them before? Seems kind of expensive, but that could be my inner cheapass talking.... No you're correct - quite expensive. Way cheaper options as mentioned in above posts. |
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You can get 275 gallon water totes for pretty cheap. My company goes through a few of these a month and sends them off to the recycler to cut up and crush. The recycler gets hundreds of these and will sell them to the public for their scrap value (saves them time and effort to cut up and crush) of about +/- $30. Just look at the label to see what chemical was in them and make sure it is not a harmful chemical. A lot of chemicals look scary but are used in food processing regularly and are safe for human consumption in very dilute amounts (i.e. rinse it out). For example our totes say hypoclorite which is used to add chlorine to keep bacteria count down in food processing and is perfectly fine for rinsing out and storing water. So call your local recycle company and see what they have. https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5Ro7LgMVcWBPm8AChs4IjipHZd1MaavoyMCrpAZ-Y1xrggJWP I got one of these last year from Lexington Container Co. for $75 IIRC. Theirs were only used to ship food components. While I no reason to doubt them as they seem to be on the up an up, just be sure and to make sure my water didn't end up tasting like corn syrup or something, I bought a food grade liner made specifically for these IBC totes. I plan on doing this again for more storage. |
| You can buy 55 gal water barrels with 5 year chemical water treatment and hand pump included for $99 delivered to your door by UPS = COSTCO. That was the safest way for me. Bigger water containers from farm & ranch stores were too big for my place, but would have been nicer if possible. I don't trust those old chemical containers to be safe. |