For those who are apartment dwellers or tight on space.
Stores food too:
http://www.tanksforless.com/WaterBrick-10-Pack-Standard-35-Gallon-Tan-WB10PACKT.htm
Not cheap, not expensive either. The stack-ability is appealing. Huge water tanks are obviously not easy to move, and well ...don't keep your eggs in one basket as they say.
Canadian retailers as well I'm sure.
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Deep in the night you will look into the ever looming dark and despair, and think...
"Damn it, I should have listened to Crier.... that bastard is brilliantly gifted with "supernatural common sense."
The only thing people need to be aware of is the weight. An average house/apt. is designed for a load of 25 pounds per square foot. If for example you dedicate a room to prepping be aware of the weight you are massing in a very small area. Espically if you start stacking to any real height.
The only exception I can see is a basement with a cement floor.
CryBaby.
For this I will pull out my chequebook..Thanks. Now tell me how I can get the company to buy it so that I can write the expense off.
Antsy
Needs must when the devil drives.
You need to haul water to your sites and so need good stong well made water storage containors for doing so Ansty. Maybe you were a sucker and paid to much compared to cheap plastic ones at Walmart but.......it was still with a thought to having clean safe water on jobsites.
Nice find CryBaby. They look like a very interesting option.
Floor loading can be misleading. Even at 25lbs / sq ft that is a minimum and takes in the load spread over the complete floor area of the house. Your floor may actually have a higher rating. Factors that can affect permissible loading are width of joist span. The shorter the span the higher weight the floor will take. You can check this in your basement if the ceiling isn't finished. Also the edges of the room will take a heavier load than the center all things being equal. An excellent secondary use for this product would be placing the filled units 2 ft high around the perimiter of a small room and creating more mass and a safer area. If filled with water or dense product they would reduce penetration of "projectiles".
Bridensolutions.ca carries this product. They'll deliver to Calgary for $7.
http://www.bridensolutions.ca/3-5-gallon-water-brick-blue
Got an email from BRIDEN ... they currently have WaterBRICKS on sale !
I've got about 30 of these. They are also handy for camping, taking out to the cabin, etc. While wearing a rucksack, you can easily carry one brick in each hand via the wire handle.
Just make sure you get a few of the extra spigot things.
The only annoying things are that it is hard to get the last 1/5 or so of the water out. Also, it would be hard to clean the except via bleach / rinsing / "shimmy and shake" because the hour glass inner profile prevents you from accessing much of the inner surface area. You probably have to actually look at the structure for that last sentence to make sense.
YMMV.
Yes I understand the annoying interior structure , and that cleaning will have to be shaking with bleach . and rinsing.
I did buy some but have not done anything with them yet. I don't usually have unscented bleach in the house,
so need to get some and also decide where I will put these.
I only got some, and one spigot, but the next time I order I will add another spigot.
I will also need to get some water tablets so that the water will hold longer . Anyone recommend a
brand of water tablets to hold the water longer ?