Sankeys largest tubs

Hi All,

I bought the largest Sankey tubs I have seen, they measure 24" across by 18" deep but for some odd and really annoying reason they have no drainage holes!!! :confsd:can anyone think of a reason why??? All the other sizes have holes except these really large ones. The holes are kind of marked out on the bottom but that's all. A few months ago this would have been no problem whatsoever but I was recently widowed and now have no-one to drill them out for me. I ended up cutting some holes with a Stanley knife which was precarious to say the least. Has anyone else had this problem or do you have any really good ideas for putting sizeable holes in large tubs!!

Val

 

Hello Val and welcome to GC and sorry to hear of your recent loss.

I really can't answer your question but was drawn to your post as my late mother-in-law's surname was Sankey.

I buy lots of big plastic tubs here and my husband has to drill holes in them for me.

All the best to you and enjoy the forum.

 

Buy yourself a cheap rechargeable drill. They come in useful for all sort of things- and far safer than a stanley knife in my experience.

 

Yes, that is exactly what I am going to do, the Stanley knife was a bit too risky!! :thmb: But WHY do they not put holes in the large tubs??????

Val

 

Send them an email and ask that very question:thumb:

 

Hi Val, I recently bought some large..ish tubs and they had no drainage holes in them.
I found a piece of steel rod (you could use a skewer of some kind) and heated it on a burner of the cooker till it was hot, hold it with pliers or use a thick oven cloth then push it through the bottom of the tub until you have enough holes,( a bit smokey and smelly but it worked fine), other than that you could buy a cheap rechargeable drill.

 

These plastic Pots /Tubs are injection moulded on an extruder with a set mould . the mould is designed
to be filled and produce and extrude a full pot with holes marked to be cut by hand ,the mould cannot do this as the injection to the mould/die is a full timed injection and is a mass with no holes in the finished product. on the smaller pots the extruder mould can be set to produce plastic pots with holes as they are injecting a smaller mass of plastic with a different mould/die. i was in the QC control in plastics for 30 yrs.:(
at the end of the day the holes are marked on the pots and the plastic is not that thick/rigid .personally
i use a phillips screwdriver to create drainage holes. music

 

So the email Sankeys sent Woo is a load of waffle then? Music's explanation sounds a lot more plausible, especially if he used to work in the industry!

 

Not at all - very good of you to email them to find out. But I still find their explanation highly dubious - why would any gardener want to buy a pot with no drainage holes, so they then have to put the holes in?

I made this mistake myself once with ceramic planters. They were cheap...because they had no drainage holes! I tried putting plants growing in plastic pots into them (to hide the plastic), but they just filled with water! Eventually the largest got a hole very carefully and slowly drilled in the bottom. The other two ended up as pot shards!