Cheap water butts - suggestions?

illusio

The year-before-last, every water company and council seemed to have deals on subsidised water butts, about £20-£30 for a 200L butt, stand and diverter, so we got several for the various downpipes.

This year, all sets seem to be around £50 - where have all the offers gone? Ebay's an option but still around £40-45 incl postage.

Any bargains lurking anywhere? Need 3 more butts and 4 linking kits to set me up for all but a major drought.

Ta muchly

dogstarheaven

we've just bought this one from wilko's instore


http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/Water-Products/Ward-Water-Butt-210ltr/invt/0101019

and i've seen there are still others left. the stand we had to pay separate for a tenner, so in total it was £30 for each one. thankfully, the guttering we have holds both my neighbouring's guttering too so this butt's been filling up all the rain we've been having in the past week very quickly. it makes me worry tho' when you hear about the country will be having a 'bbq summer' this year, so i've managed to hold more in some old plastic storage boxes i have.

PeteW

I've been looking for something too. My local garden centre (Squires) had some for a tenner but they just looked like great big buckets to me - no obvious way of getting the water in or out!

eco

I got my 200l water butts from Wickes, they were about £30 with the stand, I think they do online now, and I think it's free delivery if you order over £100.

Julie9

You can always use baths to collect water. You could advertise on Freecycle for these, even stack them ontop of each other for a waterfall effect! our allotment area has more baths than a bath showroom!

Bitsy_Beans

Try your local council. Mine sells subsidised compost bins and water butts so worth loiking into.

PaggleHam

If you're in an area where there are farm supply stores such as Mole Valley Farmers, Mole Avon or possibly even Countrywide you may be able to get used juice barrels. These are originally used to transport juice concentrate in industrial quantities and have a capacity of up to 250l, you can also get monster big ones with 1000l capacity. Absolutely fantastic as a water butt if you've got the space. A little more costly but with such a huge capacity its worth it.

gbcasual

You can ask at your local take aways if they get their oil delivered in large barrels, often blue plastic ones. They would need a hose down for sure, but normally free

Then you need to put in a self tapping tap and away you go.

Cheers

Jon

Lotus-eater

You can get 1000 ltr IBC containers on ebay and some other places, if you shop around you can get them for as little as £30 and are able to pick them up.

dartmoorchillifarm

Try old juice containers - we have about 10 dotted about at the nursery. They are huge 1000 litre containers and come in a metal cage with taps on the base.
You can source them from the adverts in the back of Autotrader. I think we paid £40 each last time.

balloo_2

dogstarheaven wrote: »

we've just bought this one from wilko's instore


http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/Water-Products/Ward-Water-Butt-210ltr/invt/0101019

and i've seen there are still others left. the stand we had to pay separate for a tenner, so in total it was £30 for each one. thankfully, the guttering we have holds both my neighbouring's guttering too so this butt's been filling up all the rain we've been having in the past week very quickly. it makes me worry tho' when you hear about the country will be having a 'bbq summer' this year, so i've managed to hold more in some old plastic storage boxes i have.

Read this
http://www.mdas.org.uk/site/?q=node/47

Might be worth a phone call

What about buying a Plastic dustbin and a tap? but if they are on offer in Wilkinsons they would work out the same price roughly.