Sep 25, 2019 | testimonials
I love my Original Rainwater Pillow. We had a dinner party last night and I could have sold one for you in Seattle – are you ready to expand?
Jim has been wonderful to work with, willing to adjust the installation if needed and to add additional downspouts if I want the pillow to fill more quickly.
The pillow is almost full as I write this. Now, I have to get into a pattern of using it more freely – there is a tendency to hoard the water just in case it never rains again. This weekend I plan to pull out some dead plants and start gardening in earnest. My husband Bill can hardly wait to wash his car.
We are happy customers and are showing friends and neighbors the results of your work almost daily. Please feel free to send future customers to our house to look at our installation if it would help.
Leslie H – Original Rainwater Pillow customer
Sep 25, 2019 | testimonials
The rainwater pillow allows us to harvest rainwater, store it in a durable product, and use it anytime we want without violating any state or local restrictions. It also saves us money on our local water bill. – Terry T.
Sep 25, 2019 | testimonials
We have been very pleased with our Original Rainwater Pillow. It is amazing how quickly it fills up and how much water is available. No worry about breeding mosquitos either. We love it!
Dr. Richard Ludwig – Program Director, Environmental Horticulture, Gwinnett Tech
Sep 25, 2019 | testimonials
Distributor Project Profile
Rainwater Pillow Installation, La Mesa California
For this project, a rainwater pillow was an obvious choice. The house is on a narrow lot that has a steep slope to the front. There is no space for an above-ground tank, except for in locations that are less than ideal due to visibility and traffic. Similarly, there is no convenient location for an under-ground tank.
41Furthermore, this client has limited irrigation needs and therefore the labor costs for excavation would not make sense. When we discovered the accessible crawl space immediately below the best roof area for rainwater collection, we knew a rainwater pillow was the ideal application for this project.39
The rainwater collection area includes a flat section of roof with about 1,000 square feet as well as a 
smaller section toward 1,000 gal under deckthe front. The gutters from these two roof areas are tied together, delivering rainwater to a single downspout. This downspout runs down the side of the house, enters the crawl space below floor level, and then flows into the rainwater pillow. This design means that there are no penetrations to the building envelope. There is an overflow directed outside the building to some shrubs along the walkway, to prevent flooding in the crawlspace.
The pillow holds about 800 gallons when filled to 1.9 ft high and is 10 ft x 6 ft flat. This is the maximum that could fit in this crawl space, but works due to her limited irrigation needs and choice of drought-tolerant plants.
40This client has small landscaped areas around the periphery of her patio and potted plants on the patio and front deck. She wished to continue hand-watering these plants, but with the use of rainwater. Her primary watering needs were on the patio and front deck and she wanted hose bibs accessible to both locations. Therefore, our design for her system included running pipe from the pillow to serve hose bibs on both sides of the house. The rainwater is delivered using a Flotec ½ HP pump with a remote control switch.
My favorite comment from the client was that during the first 1,000 gal under deckbig rain after our installation she said: ” I woke up and heard the rain and raced into the utility room to watch my pillow fill with water!”. After she had a chance to use the pillow, she said: “I used the rainwater and it works great!”.
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Rich Alianelli and Rosalind Haselbeck, co-owners – Building Green Futures Inc.
Sep 25, 2019 | testimonials
I had several quotes on rainwater storage systems. Dollars per gallon, Jim was by far the most reasonable. He came exactly when he said he would and did a great job. We had a minor issue with the pipes in the crawl space and he came back on Sunday to fix it, and fixed it properly. We love our rainpillow and brag to all our friends about the 1200 gallons we currently have (we can store uo to 2400 !). Jim was able to get us a custom pillow to maximize volume in our crawl space and was pretty creative in typing in to our gutters. Loved the additional pruning and plant advice too.
