# Tiny Houses **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-houses/691679 "2014-06-26T08:43:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-houses/691679/18 "2014-06-27T09:37:04Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Well that certainly looks pastoral. Did you have a well? Yes. Well pumped water into a HUGE tank elsewhere on the property. A portion of that water was periodically pumped into a smaller holding tank near the trailer, just a bit uphill from it so there was some naturally-occurring water pressure. Somebody had to manually open the valves for a while, once a month or so, to refill the smaller holding tank. The procedure was to fill it until it overflows a little bit, so all the pond scum floating on top of the water runs off. Water with pond scum tastes a hella lot better than city water full of chlorine. (ETA: PS: If you liked that trailer picture, there’s about 6 more views of it there too, at: [Index of /pictures](http://doggie.freeshell.org/pictures/) ) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-houses/691679)._