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Our tanks have only been in a year. There is no sludge on the bottom of them but the water smells terrible. I think what has happened is the B awful snails have been washed into the wet system and are rotting in the underground part of the system. We need to have some way of excluding bugs/snails from the gutters and or downpipes. Looking at leaf excluder diverters. As anyone got info on these. The good the bad and the ugly.
The shed is a dry system and those tanks don't seem to be as bad but I think we will need to exclude snails etc from those gutters and down pipes but there is no room in the "fall" of the downpipes to add in anything so we will look at gutter guard for those gutters. Again an practical info appreciated
Also how do you flush rotting snails out of the wet system. We have inspection points but they are at ground level and the lowest point on the pipes are of course lower that this. Once we open up the points and water flows out we were thinking of putting hose in the other end of the gutter to try and flush more water through the system but I wonder if this would have enough pressure to move snails along and up to the inspection point to get out of the system
The shed is a dry system and those tanks don't seem to be as bad but I think we will need to exclude snails etc from those gutters and down pipes but there is no room in the "fall" of the downpipes to add in anything so we will look at gutter guard for those gutters. Again an practical info appreciated
Also how do you flush rotting snails out of the wet system. We have inspection points but they are at ground level and the lowest point on the pipes are of course lower that this. Once we open up the points and water flows out we were thinking of putting hose in the other end of the gutter to try and flush more water through the system but I wonder if this would have enough pressure to move snails along and up to the inspection point to get out of the system