It's one of these ideas that's so obvious in retrospect you can't believe no one has done it before, but I've been looking, and I think this is unique. Bob Kreger, who has a great reputation as a quality builder, has patents pending on these completely customizable storage tanks. I have nothing against the big corrugated steel ones, but they don't exactly match my adobe. RainVessels matched our stucco exactly, and built it to the size that made sense for our roof quickly, cleanly and relatively inexpensively -- much less than burying some big plastic thing. It's insulated against the winter, and when we do get those monsoon rains, I'll be able to capture nearly all of the roof runoff. I was strongly tempted by the one that looks like a giant Indian pot...but the wife said no. But everyone's happy.
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