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Rain water on roof.
Rainwater can be collected from the roofs using the rain water harvesting method.
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Allowing the high volume of water to flow over the roof will damage the shingles and cause them to wear prematurely.
Gutters and a downspout.
Even if you turn the spout adjacent to the slope it will still cause damage to the roofing.
So a 50 x 20 roof is 600.
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Concrete tile may leave you with alkalinity in your water but this isn t necessarily a problem.
Take the dimensions of the footprint of your roof and convert them to inches.
Spreading the flow over the roof in this way will not alleviate the damage that is caused.
Just a half inch of rain falling on a 1 000 square foot roof will yield 300 gallons of water.
Building a rain roof as another option to harvest rainwater for home garden or livestock use.
With over 600 gallons of high quality water available from a single inch of rain falling on 1000 square foot surface even an 85 collection efficiency estimated for clay tile will give you a lot of high quality water.
Use this rainwater harvesting calculator to find the answer.
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Wondering how much rainwater you could collect off your roof.
Take a guess what is the volume of water that runs off a 1 000 square foot roof during a 1 rain storm.
The answer is about 623 gallons.
To get an idea how much water the roof of your own house might yield use the rainfall harvest calculator above.
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