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The Story Behind AquaDivert
"I was lying in a hospital bed watching a blood pressure cuff squeeze my arm. That is where AquaDivert came from."
Damian, founder, AquaDivert Systems
On the roof
I spent years roofing. Every wash down ended the same way.
Dirty water heading for the downpipe, straight into the stormwater drain, and everyone on site pretending not to notice.
Sandbags were the answer we all used, and they were never really an answer.
They slow water down, they do not seal anything, they will not hold on a pitch, and they soak up the exact muck you were trying to keep out of the creek. You still end up shovelling wet sand into the ute at knock off.
I kept thinking there had to be a way to just stop it at the outlet.
Then I got crook
Leukemia, a bone marrow transplant, and a long stretch in hospital with not much to do but think.
They put a blood pressure cuff on my arm a few times a day.
It expands, it grips, it seals, and then it lets go clean.
I lay there watching it and thought, that is exactly what a downpipe needs.
That is the whole idea behind AquaDivert. It has not changed since.
Back on the tools
Since then it has been years of building, testing and rebuilding.
On real job sites, not in an office. Every version went into a real outlet on a real roof with a real bloke standing there waiting to get his job done.
That is why it fits the way it does. The sizing, the seal, the fact you can pull it out and hose it off in about ten seconds.
None of that came out of a design meeting.
It came out of things not working properly the first time.
What came out of it is one unit that fits nearly every stormwater outlet in the country, goes in by hand in about 30 seconds, and gives you somewhere to put the water. Australian made, patent pending.
Every stormwater drain in the country runs straight to a creek, a river or the ocean.
No treatment, no filter. Whatever comes off that roof goes in raw.
I built AquaDivert because I needed it.
If you have ever stood on a roof watching your wash water disappear into a drain and hoped nobody was looking, it was built for you too.