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pila size (volume of water)

elfbrewery - 11-10-2013 at 03:32 PM

What is the capacity of the standard rooftop pilas I see around the Mulege area?
Cheers!

Russ - 11-10-2013 at 03:40 PM

1 cu. meter =264 gallons or 1000lrts
Mine's double walled Blue outside white inside. No discoloration after years and no additive. I do get a lot of salt crystals tho.
How about back up water storage:?:

[Edited on 11-10-2013 by Russ]

elfbrewery - 11-10-2013 at 03:43 PM

Okay. I assume the standard size is 1 cubic meter, then. Thanks, Russ.

DENNIS - 11-10-2013 at 03:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by elfbrewery
What is the capacity of the standard rooftop pilas I see around the Mulege area?
Cheers!



Probably called a "Tenaco." ??????

elfbrewery - 11-10-2013 at 03:50 PM

I have no idea what they are called, but I'll keep that name in mind. Thanks.

bajagrouper - 11-10-2013 at 04:23 PM

I believe a pila is usually a cement sink and clothes washer in a patio, one side has a ribbed inclined section for scrubbing clothes and the other side for rinsing off the soap......

Maderita - 11-10-2013 at 04:27 PM

A tinaco or cisterna. Can't say aboout Mulege specifically. The most common that I see are the black Rotoplas tinacos in 1100 litres (290 gallons). 1.10m diameter (43") x 1.39m high (55")
There are other sizes: http://tatsa.mx/product/tinaco-bicapa/

elfbrewery - 11-10-2013 at 04:31 PM

Gracias. That's a much better answer. I believe the ones I see could well be the 1100 litre size. But it's nice to know there are more!
Thanks again.

pila

captkw - 11-10-2013 at 04:34 PM

A pila is cement and can be made Big..no real size limet!!:cool:

Sandlefoot - 11-10-2013 at 05:02 PM

Pi (3.141597) time Radius squared times Height, Should get you the volume of the water storage devise. If you input radius and height in feet your answer will be in cubic feet, if inches it will be in cubic inches. Now you need to convert it to something that makes sense like gallons or liters. A simple google search will give you those conversion formulas. Google something like: "1 cu ft to gallons" and you will get "1 cu ft = 7.48025 US Gallons"

Happy Trails

elfbrewery - 11-10-2013 at 05:38 PM

Got it. I just wanted to know by eyeballing the size, not actually getting out the tape measure on somebody's roof. Info is good. Thanks for the input.