Water Tanks are essential for storing huge amounts of water for residential homes, business and industrial buildings. Over time, these tanks can leak, crack, or corrode. It’s important to constantly maintain water tanks to avoid these things from happening. In this post, we will look at the sustainable ways to keep your water tank in tip top condition, which in turn will keep it running for years to come. Let’s get started and discuss Water Tanks and Sustainability.
Relining vs Replacements
While it’s sometimes necessary to completely replace a water tank, this isn’t always the case. Many times, the tank just needs extra loving care in the form of relining to keep the very same tank running smoothly.
Echo Square has some shocking figures to share with you.
Replacing a Tank vs Relining Figures
Did you know, that replacing a tank generates 1.5 tonnes of CO₂e and OVER 400KG of waste sent to landfill? By simply having your tank relined only generates 150KG CO₂e. That’s a huge difference.
Tank relining avoids the waste of embodied carbon, reducing the environmental impact by up to 90% compared to full tank replacement.
Did you also know that Transportation of a new tank and disposing of the existing tank adds up to 200+ kg CO₂e per project?
By relining your tank instead of replacing it, you are not only extending the lifespan of your water tank by over 10 years. Additionally relining uses a fraction of the raw materials compared to manufacturing a new tank.
Finally, tank relining can cost up to 60% LESS than replacing your tank. Have we convinced you yet?
How Water Tank Relining Works
As mentioned above, water tanks over time can corrode, leak or crack after holding a huge amount of water over a long period of time. Water Tank Relining applies a new coat inside the tank. The coating seals any damage and restores the tanks ability to hold water again safely. Tank relining works for many different tank materials. This includes steel, concrete, and fiberglass.
Echo Square offer tank relining services which are carried out by our highly trained expert teams. Most importantly, we ensure that your tank remains compliant with ACoP L8.
Conclusion
To end this blog post, let’s summarize the facts and figures that we discussed. Tank Replacements should only be performed if Tank Relining won’t fix the problem you have with your water tank. Water Tank Replacements add a staggering 1.5 tonnes of CO₂e and OVER 400KG of waste sent to landfill. This is compared to a much smaller amount of 150KG CO₂e, when a tank is relined.
Transportation of a new water tank and disposing of the old one adds up to 200+ kg CO₂e per project.
Echo Square are leading sustainable experts and can help you with your current water tank. Get in touch today to see how we can help.