Water Butt & diverter - advice on how best to fit pls

longtimelurker54

Hi,

We would like to install a water butt to collect rainwater from our downpipe. Only problem is downpipe comes down outside backdoor, down a narrow part of garden where we can't easily accommodate the water butt. Instead, we'd like to locate the water butt around the corner.

Would this be possible to do? Had a look on ebay at some "rainwater diverter kits" and they seem to come with what looks like flexible tubing which you attach to the downpipe and then to the butt, but it's all very short lengths of tubing. Are there longer lengths of this so we could pin it up somehow around the building to take it to where we want it to go?

Also, if we could find tubing long enough, would the water "flow" alright to the butt if the tubing has to go up the wall and around - it will look unsightly if it has to go at eye level around the outside of the building.

Also, grateful for any advice on how to re-use the collected water to flush the loo with as we'd like to do this if it's not too costly/difficult.

We are on a water meter so can justify some cost to save on metered supply.

Many thx for any advice.

capeverde

youve got it the wrong way round. With a butt and diverter, the water flows first into the butt from the downpipe, but when this fills up, it diverts thro the small tube back into the downpipe to stop the butt overflowing. Only way around is to move the downpipe or branch off it. , will always need the facility to go back into the drain though.

27col

capeverde, I don't know what arrangement you've got but my butt certainly fills from the small diverter pipe. When the butt is full to the diverter pipe the water backs up to the rainwater down pipe and carries on down to the soak away.