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Originally Posted by The Reaper
I am thinking bigger than a wading pool and closed from the elements. The military stores water in blivets. This made me look at a commercially available alternative.
We have an unused water bed mattress that will connect directly to a water hose. They can probably be found at yard sales and the like for a few dollars. New mattress bladders are less than $100. I am thinking that rinsed out well to remove any traces of algecide, with a little chlorine added, it will be easily stored in my crawl space under the house and can hold a couple of hundred gallons of water. I could actually store quite a few down there. By my calculations, a Queen mattress should hold over 220 gallons and a King around 300. That should keep a careful family of four in drinking water for more than six weeks.
If I reconnect the hose and locate the running end down hill, I can even have running water.
Has anyone else considered this?
TR
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We have a queen size and super single that I had already planned on using for hygiene purposes, if necessary.
Now I'm thinking that a new free-flow super single can also be used in the back of a pickup or SUV for water transportation. Fully extended and filled it holds about 150 gal. If weight and/or space are a problem, it can be folded to reduce capacity. They also stand up well to a reasonable amount of weight being placed on top of them.
Pat