An Experiment in Scotch

Well we had a lit­tle storm roll through Wylie this morn­ing and there is good news and bad news. The good news is that 3/10ths of an inch of rain trans­lated into about 40ish gal­lons of rain­wa­ter in the col­lec­tion sys­tem. That tells me we don’t have nearly enough col­lec­tion capac­ity but for now, I’m happy. The bad news of course is that there’s a leak in the spigot. When we first installed it, we (I really but if every­one is tak­ing credit for the suc­cess I guess every­one can take credit for the fail­ure) didn’t screw the spigot into the PVC. When I tried to do that Sun­day, the sealant broke. I applied more but it takes 7 days to cure. Appar­ently, 2 days is not the same as 7 days. Who knew.

So right now the sys­tem is dis­en­gaged, I have reap­plied sealant, tipped the bar­rel back so that there’s no water pres­sure on the seal and I’m hop­ing for the best. Unfor­tu­nately, it’s sup­posed to rain some over the next few days so I’m off to research other pos­si­ble seals that might not take 7 days.