Water . . .

[Oldgreybeard]

I often find that the easiest way to tidy up the embedded multiple quote system this forum uses is to just hand edit the bits that are being referred to. To use an example from earlier in this thread (and I've embedded this next bit in code tags so the formatting shows) here is my original quoted, plus Stinsy's reply, first as two single quotes (what's inside the code tags below is what appears on your editing screen when you quote a post):

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[quote=Oldgreybeard post_id=16160 time=1661333769 user_id=155]
Our water butt sat empty for weeks over the recent dry spell, and has barely filled much since.  I redirected the drain from the aircon to it recently, but hadn't bothered to measure how much water it produces, so over the last couple of days I've put a 10 litre bucket under the drain and have been collecting the water that way to get a feel for how much it produces.

The good news is that it seems to produce between 6 and 10 litres of water per day.  This is essentially the same as rain water, being just condensed out of the air, so should be fine for watering.  Not a lot, but the effort involved in diverting it to the water butt was small in my case, just two or three metres of pipe and a tee fitting into the water butt fill pipe.

I know some of you have been fitting aircon recently, might be worth looking at ways to save the water.  It's only maybe a watering can full per day, but that's enough to keep the pots on our patio watered for free.
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[quote=Stinsy post_id=16168 time=1661338086 user_id=69]
Usefulness depends how you look at it. 

Imagine grid down, no electric, mains water, or gas. It hasn't rained for a few weeks and has been wall-to-wall sunshine. Not only are you cool at home but you also have water to drink! 

(Maybe I watch too many disaster movies.)
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And again as two cascaded quotes (which is what the forum seems to do by default). I've padded this next bit so that the quote code is easier to see:

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[quote=Oldgreybeard post_id=16160 time=1661333769 user_id=155]

Our water butt sat empty for weeks over the recent dry spell, and has barely filled much since.  I redirected the drain from the aircon to it recently, but hadn't bothered to measure how much water it produces, so over the last couple of days I've put a 10 litre bucket under the drain and have been collecting the water that way to get a feel for how much it produces.

The good news is that it seems to produce between 6 and 10 litres of water per day.  This is essentially the same as rain water, being just condensed out of the air, so should be fine for watering.  Not a lot, but the effort involved in diverting it to the water butt was small in my case, just two or three metres of pipe and a tee fitting into the water butt fill pipe.

I know some of you have been fitting aircon recently, might be worth looking at ways to save the water.  It's only maybe a watering can full per day, but that's enough to keep the pots on our patio watered for free.

[quote=Stinsy post_id=16168 time=1661338086 user_id=69]

Usefulness depends how you look at it. 

Imagine grid down, no electric, mains water, or gas. It hasn't rained for a few weeks and has been wall-to-wall sunshine. Not only are you cool at home but you also have water to drink! 

(Maybe I watch too many disaster movies.)

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As long as every quote is preceded by this (or just the quote tag on its own):

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[quote=Stinsy post_id=16168 time=1661338086 user_id=69]

and is finished with the slash quote end tag, like this:

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then it should format correctly. You can quote manually if you wish, although that loses the specific post reference. So, for example, if I want to quote the bit of Stinsy's post referring just to drinking water I could write this (or cut and paste the text) wrapping it with quote start and end tags:

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[quote]Not only are you cool at home but you also have water to drink! [/quote]

This will appear in a post if written normally as:

Not only are you cool at home but you also have water to drink!

Only thing to watch is that the tags are correctly formed, with the instructions "quote" and "/quote" enclosed in square brackets. It's very easy to accidentally delete a bracket when cutting and pasting and that causes the tags to be read as text, rather than formatting instructions, or even just ignored.