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Dave Fawthrop
 
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Default harvesting rainwater from a lead roof

On Wed, 24 May 2006 19:16:22 +0100, Steve Firth
wrote:

|On 24 May 2006 18:13:32 +0200, Chris Bacon wrote:
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| jonathan.ives wrote:
| Is it safe to collect rainwater from a roof with a flat leaded area.
|
|It would be safe to collect it.
|
| This would be for watering plants. Many thanks
|
|I'd think twice before using it to water plants. OTOH since it's probably
|going into a soakaway under the garden at the moment, what more harm could
|it do?

Get into flowers, no problem.
Get into vegetables Hmmmmm.
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