Check out this storage setup...

[KaNuckles]

Very nice food/water storage.

 

http://waterstoragerack.blogspot.com/p/result.html

[Guest 6.8 AR]

That's pretty cool, but I doubt my carpentry abilities would push to that limit. I do need to put the IBC totes on a frame to get them

a little higher, though. We got some heavy duty shelving from Sam's and have them full of food and other stuff for the prepping.

This big old house now has a room full of supplies for six months worth of living quite well.

[maroonandwhite]

So I guess water will "keep" a long time in a sealed container like that? Doesn't look like they have an easy way of changing it out often.

[itchytriggerfinger]

So I guess water will "keep" a long time in a sealed container like that? Doesn't look like they have an easy way of changing it out often.

 

I was wondering the same thing.

[maroonandwhite]

I have often thought about having some type of system that plumbed in line with you existing water system. Kind of a big holding tank before the hot water heater of normal cold lines. It would stay replenished with fresh water all the while holding plenty of water onsite for emergencies. If you went with some type of mini onsite water tower you could possibly even have it pressurized to use in the normal ways in the house. Although I doubt you would want to take a cold shower or waste water on showers for that matter.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

I have fairly deep shelves that are about 12" to 18" high. I store cans stacked vertical, but there is always wasted space where for instance a shelf may be tall enough to stack two cans but the shelf might happen to be a fraction of an inch not tall enough to stack three cans.

 

An item on the "infinitely long to-do list"-- Home-made "magazine feed bins" or whatever they are called, which some groceries use to dispense campbell's soup cans. Store the cans horizontally, feed new cans in the top, and retrieve cans from the bottom. Thataway for instance if one has an 18 inch deep, 12" high shelf space, cans could occupy about every square inch for storage, top to bottom and front-to-back, if each home-made feed bin is custom dimensioned for each shelf and each can size.

 

Another benefit-- It would be automatic first-in-first-out usage of the oldest can of chili, olives, corn, whatever is stored in each bin. Vertical stacking the cans as I do now, in rows, front-to-back on deep shelves, the oldest cans are in the back hardest to access and the newest cans are easiest to access. A defacto last-in-first-out storage system. And sometimes when a can falls off its stack it causes an avalanche of cans onto the floor. :)

[KaNuckles]

There are ways to treat the water for long term storage like stabilized oxygen. But it doesn't look like too much trouble to hook up a hose pipe to the spigot and run it outside to drain them. 

[Guest Pineapple Devil]

im curious about your water storage too. i've got two of the white drums like those for water storage i've just never gotten around to making sure they are cleaned inside and filling them up. how much is 110 gallons of water from the tap?

[KaNuckles]

That isn't my storage, btw. I just thought it was cool. If you're asking how much it costs it would be about $2.00 worth of water by the rates i pay. I think white is ok but you have to stay on top of treatment and/or changing it often. The white lets light in and that little critters need to grow. Darker colors combat this. But you can do white, again as long as you are diligent about treating/changing the water. Which you should do anyway regardless of container color. 

[Hotrod]

Sharp setup....Thanks for the link.. :up: