hose pipe ban

[Befuddler]

It seems unlikely the ban will reach my area, but even if it does I will be continuing to use my immersion chiller attached to a hose as usual. If anyone looks through my utility room window and sees me doing it, I'll cave their head in for trespassing.

[Dennis King]

Put my postcode into the Anglian water co. website and I'm OK. Considering how little rain we have had it's a surprise.

[bigrichlock]

How about just cooling indoors and use the kitchen tap with a bit of hose bodged on to it?

and if your paranoid close the blind!

[Dennis King]

How about just cooling indoors and use the kitchen tap with a bit of hose bodged on to it?

and if your paranoid close the blind!

tut tut

[kebabman]

If you collect the warmed mains water from your chiller and then tip or pump it into your bath and use it to use less hot water from a combi or tank (assuming that you can still get your bath water to a suitable final temperature), then surely your brewery is a bath water preheating facility!

[the red devil]

All good suggestions!!
I was thinking of getting a pump to recyicle my wort anyway.
If i can get a tank of water cool enough (maybe with the fridge idea!) then this could be the solution.
Thanks for the replys.

[johnmac]

Below are the terms of the ban. Are we suggesting that home brew falls under the category of 'domestic recreation'? Otherwise, it isn't banned, is it?
Anglian Water Hosepipe Ban Restrictions 2012
by Hose | posted: March 26, 2012 150 comments
Updated 26/03/2012

This is the statement Anglian Water have made regarding their hosepipe ban water restrictions starting on April 5th 2012.

We will now use this page as the definitive guide on Anglian Water’s restrictions and exemptions. Please therefore refer back here if you have seen something contradictory on another part of our site which may have been written when other rules applied.

You may comment or ask questions using the comments box at the bottom of this page.

Anglian Water’s statement:

What can’t I do when I’m on a hosepipe ban?

Watering a garden using a hosepipe.
Cleaning a private motor-vehicle using a hosepipe.
Watering plants on domestic or other non-commercial premises using a hosepipe.
Cleaning a private leisure boat using a hosepipe.
Filling or maintaining a domestic swimming or paddling pool, except by using a hand held container filled directly from a tap.
Drawing water, using a hosepipe, for domestic recreational use.
Filling or maintaining a domestic pond using a hosepipe, except where fish or other aquatic animals are being reared or kept in captivity.
Filling or maintaining an ornamental fountain, except where an ornamental fountain is in a fish pond.
Cleaning walls, or windows, of domestic premises using a hosepipe.
Cleaning paths or patios using a hosepipe.
Cleaning other artificial outdoor surfaces using a hosepipe.
What am I still allowed to do?

Use a hosepipe in a garden or for cleaning walls or windows of domestic premises, paths or patios, a private leisure boat or an artificial outdoor surface, where such use is necessary for health and safety reasons;
Use a hosepipe in the course of a business to clean a private motor vehicle, or for cleaning walls or windows of domestic premises, paths or patios or an artificial outdoor surface, where this is done as a service to customers
Use a hosepipe to water a garden attached to a domestic dwelling or to water plants on domestic premises by people with severe mobility problems or who hold a current Blue Badge issued by their local authority.
Use a hosepipe to water an area of grass or an artificial outdoor surface used for playing sport or recreation (but not for any ancillary use), where this is required in connection with a national or international sports event only.
Use of drip or trickle irrigation watering systems fitted with a pressure reducing valve and a timer, that are not handheld and which place water by drip directly onto the soil surface or beneath the soil surface, without any surface run off or dispersion of water through the air using a jet or mist.

http://www.hosepipeban.org.uk/

[FUBAR]

How about just cooling indoors and use the kitchen tap with a bit of hose bodged on to it?

and if your paranoid close the blind!

Thats the way I chill my brews although without the blinds closed,that might have to change in the future

[Crispy Hedgehog]

Are we suggesting that home brew falls under the category of 'domestic recreation'?

I would class it as Domestic Recreation. It is deliberately worded this way - so that it covers anything that is a "hobby" which will require the use of water. However as previously mentioned using a large keg/waterbutt and connected to your IC is permitted as you would fill the keg/butt using a watering can.