Water to field.. Any ideas

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I have just taken on a field which does not have its own water supply. The agent assured me that previous tenants had water supplied from nearby garden centre. I can see the hose and tap in my field. Was assured that it was not expensive. Go to see manager of garden centre(which is to close due to houses being built) and was told that the bills were normally £10 -£15 per month and field has its own meter and she just turns water on when required, but she now wants £500 deposit due to previou 2 tenants not paying her. Can I approach water company to be billed to my home address and pay by direct debit. I feel I have been duped by agent as I now have to ferry water from home for 4 horse. Any ideas or thought please. Managed to collect quite a bit from 1 nights rainfall but not enough.
 
It backs on to residential houses. Main road is about 3 hundred yards away. Is there a charge for water company to give you a tap. Thanks for the idea.
 
We collected water of our stable and barns roofs for over two years (then had a bore hole) and never ran out, that was with four horses and many chickens! So if the garden centre won't play ball, you should be able to collect.
 
Well I think a connection charge but I doubt it would be £500 give them a call and ask you've got nothing to loose. Also If the tap is in your field then they should be able to isolate and leave you a connection. As I say give them a call and tell them you have a tap in your field I assume the Garden Centre don't own the field??
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I'd still ask the water board as if the garden centre shutting it should be possible for them to give you a supply if not then collect rain water if you have stables or transport from home or get a waters bowser and tow it to the field.
 
I have a similar problem, and have been lugging up great 25 litre carriers of water which is killing me. I looked into buying a water bowser but they are about £500 on ebay - eek! Still at least you would have it at the end, unlike the deposit to the garden centre which is closing. I wouldn't give them that much - could you just offer to pay in advance every month, say £50 up front and then £15 a month thereafter until they close?

I think that you would have to have a ditch dug and a pipe laid to properly connect you, and if it can't come through the GC then you could have quite a big bill. It might be worth asking the waterboard how much to connect you, but I heard it was quite expensive and they need an address to bill too, which might be tricky.

Can you approach any of the houses backing on to see if they would let you run a hose and pay them £10-£15 a month? Otherwise just buy a bowser I suppose!
 
In France famers use water bowsers which can be moved from field to field. I use a small one for my fields which are a bit far from my stand pipes.

You could also buy a towable plastic water container, or by one that would fit on a small trailer you could use for other things.
 
Yes its killing me too. The field is down a steep slope so cars cant go there.Also it gets really muddy in winter. She was adamant that she wanted £500. Ive got a contract for 1 year. So I cant see me using that much. I can be billed at home. Unfortunately its a different water board to my home supply. Ive made contact with one neighbour, might see how that progresses. if he see me lugging my containers about he might feel sorry for me.
 
Forgot to say it backs onto a cemetry. Do you think it would be disrespectful to ask if I could run my hose over the fence once a week to one of their taps.
 
I used a 40 gallon drum on wheels towed behind a vehicle for years to water my four horses and 14 sheep. This year I've upgraded to a 200 gallon bowser - £300 off ebay - and it makes life much easier. Plus I'm not metered (yet) at home.
 
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Forgot to say it backs onto a cemetry. Do you think it would be disrespectful to ask if I could run my hose over the fence once a week to one of their taps.

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I would ask the water co for your own supply and it will save you from stress and add value to your property
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At one of my fields without water I use a drain pipe on the field shelter, diverted into the trough. One substantial rain fall and it's completely full. I really should have a pipe off from the vertical, into a water butt, but haven't got round to that, yet. The trough under the vertical does mean that there's only about 2 months of the year when I have to carry 25L containers, though.

Another idea: in my other field, I skive water from a friendly neighbour. I use her hose to fill up the trough as and when. Would it be worth approaching one of the houses that your field backs onto and setting up a two way tap, so that your hose could connect to their outside tap in addition to theirs? You could offer payment in cash, as you were going to anyway, or maybe work out bagged manure for their garden (3 bags a month, say).

You can get a supply to the field, but I seem to remember that it does cost quite a bit. It's a long time since I enquired!
 
We have two huge containers and one 100L container and we collect rainwater from the stable roofs. We have five horses, chickens and cats and haven't taken any water down to the field for about two years.
 
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