improvised water butt?????

Hi all,

I need to catch the rain water that drains off my sheds guttering and turns my lawn into a bog :rolleyes:
Can anyone advise me on how to make a water butt on the cheap? Or a really cheap supplier???

 

Hi WM maybe trago or warrior at Tuckingmill

 

Ah!! Hadn't thought of Warriors!!! Thanks Macleaf!!

 

Do you think I could make one out of a dustbin??? Like I said, cheap is the order of the day!!!!! :rolleyes:

 

A dustbin won`t hold a lot (80L perhaps) maybe a few of them linked together in a line would be an option?
If you use tank fittings near the bottom to hook them together it would be an expandable system

 

Windy,
try your local water company, mine do subsidised water butts for about �£20.

 

I bought my large water butt from an echo center in leicester.(�£25) 3 butts came from the paper for �£5 each. If you visit a reclamation yard you will be pleasently surprised what they have to offer on the cheap.

 

Thanks for the info guys Will have a google and see what I can find!!

 

Whether it's 100 litre or a 1000 litre eventually it will overflow when it's full so you really need to dig a trench a couple of feet deep and fill it with gravel or rubble then take an overflow pipe from your container and direct it to your dry drain. If you can take it to an actual drain even better but check regulations before you start cutting rone pipes!

 

Or take it away to an area that you want to turn into a bog/damp bed.

 

Ahh Frogesque Im hurt. :D You could at least have given me a recomedation :D and quoted my terms and conditions .Hope yours have settled in all right.

 

:D Didn't like to Beefy as I wasn't sure if you still had any.

I can thoroughly recommend Beefy's Waterbarrels! Friendly service and very reasonable terms. :D

BTW, How's 'Arthur'

 

Arthur is doing ok .Has made good friends with the brush and mop.
Before the Moderators call for the men in white coats for us I'll explain.
Earlier in the year I asked advice on growing grapes. I mentioned that i had a supply of empty 45 gallon plastic barrells. Frogesque asked if he could have two of them .The next time I was in Scotland I meet him in the motorway services between Perth and Edinburgh. He got the barrells and I got "Arthur"The picture explains the rest.



Before anyone else asks here are the terms and conditions .
1- you must be able to collect from a motorway service at any time of the day or night .
2 - it may take time to set it all up (in froggys case I think it was two months so be patient)
3 - when it does happen you will get less than 12 hours notice
4 - If your late I'm gone .I drive a HGV at the weekends that does timed deliverys and its normally JUST in time so waiting is not an option, the load is more important.
5- you buy the tea and sandwiches :D
6- In all disputes my decision is final :D :D

At the minute if you are near the M6 I can probably get you one as Im up and down it nearly every Friday night Saturday morning.

[ 09. November 2006, 08:32 PM: Message edited by: Beefy ]

 

Hello Arthur!! :D

You're a busy man, Beefy!

 

Keeps me out of trouble :D :D