Double team In the first place, those drums cost anywhere

Double team In the first place, those drums cost anywhere from 65 to 90 dollars apiece. You ll also need to buy a long siphon pump to get the water out because you can t just tip it on its side and pour out a glass of water each time you need to. That pump is another fifteen dollars. And don t forget the special bung wrench you ll need to open and close the barrel; something that size doesn t come with a screw top. The wrench alone will cost you about twenty bucks, and if you misplace it, you won t be able to get at that water when you need it. Shipping costs for a barrel that size can reach anywhere from 30-48 dollars. It s no wonder most people put off the storing of water. It costs too dang much just to get started. You can t just fill a big drum with water and forget about it for years. Water has to be purified and changed out at regular intervals, and if you re keeping your water in large barrels in the basement, that means buying a handcart for hauling double team heavy barrels back upstairs, then taking them outside, pouring out all the water, rinsing the barrels, refilling them, capping them off, and hauling them back downstairs. And that assumes you remembered where you put that fershlugginer bung wrench. I was shown those two barrels in that couple s basement way back in 1 I wouldn t want to have to depend on drinking water that s been sitting for over a decade, and I can only double team that sweet couple has learned a thing or two about storing water since then. Water doesn t keep well for longer than five years under the very best of conditions, and most stored water is not stored in the best of conditions. Most people don t know how to prepare their water properly, and they almost never think to flush it out and replace it. Getting started storing water properly can actually be easy and pretty cheap. Next week I ll show you a couple of containers that are both convenient to store and inexpensive. Meet me back here next Thursday and we ll get you on your way. How do you recommend rinsing out those 55 gal plastic drums? I have one, and it sits in the sun and smells like it, but it s what I ve got and I have to use it. You would not use any dish detergent am I right? How about bleach? Isopropyl Alcohol? Man, I don t know, KO. My initial feeling is that if you fill it half full with a bunch of water and most of a bottle of fresh chlorine bleach and shake it around, that should kill any bugs and odors in there. Then fill it fuller and shake some more. Then just make sure you rinse and rinse and rinse again until it smells okay. I m assuming you ll do all this outside, of course. Most of these barrels have a small opening of a couple of inches or so, but if you can remove the entire top, it would be easier to hose out. If, after all you can do, it still smells bad, I d give some thought to letting it go if you can afford to do anything else. Letting it stand in the sun with the top off would be a good way to let it dry out. Concerns over flouride and local tap water convinced us to subscribe to a local water distributor with monthly refills of 10 gallon bottles. Adding an in double team dispenser provides chilled and instant hot water that even the kids can dispense for themselves.