Cheap water butt and stand (Merged Thread)

angie_loves_veg

I have always been horrified at the cost of water butts, but on a recent mailing I noticed that HOMEBASE are selling them at half price, and with a 10% day (25th and 26th May) coming soon so....

203L Butt - was £39.99 now £19.99 On 10% day £17.99

Stand - was £12.99 now £6.49 On 10% day £5.84

which I think is as cheap as you will get for a purchased ready made solution!

:T Don't forget to use your Spend & Save card for reward vouchers too!:T

Hope this helps someone....

sb44

Just been to their site but can't see any water butts at all.

Is this just an instore offer or am I going totally blind?

simgranny

If you only want a small one (120ltr), Wilkinsons do one for £14.99 . 210 ltr is£19.99. The stand is relatively expensive, though at £9.99.

http://www.wilkoplus.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=24047&langId=-1

angie_loves_veg

sb44 wrote: »

Just been to their site but can't see any water butts at all.

Is this just an instore offer or am I going totally blind?

I can't see it online either - looks like it must be in store only..... sorry

Mrs_B_12

Hi

I have a problem, I want a waterbutt but no downpipe suitable for connecting it to. Our house is a semi and our back door is at the side of the house so the only access to the garden is from there round to the back and the only downpipe that could be used is there and there isn't anywhere nearby suitable for big enough to site a butt. I only have one wastepipe from the bathroom so I can't even site the butt at the front of the house and use that.

Can you get some sort of free standing butt that catches rainwater? Or is my only option to buy one and just take the lid off when it rains to catch it that way?

Also, if I did this could I tip grey water into it?

Poppycat

Actually the water butt I have does catch water falling down on the top, but whether that sufficient to fill it up after a nights rain I some how doubt it, may get a few litres that way. Not sure what the solution is for you I got a water butt from evergreen along with lid, the downpipe collector thing and a stand for £40.

Its easier on mine to take lid off, when it does rain I rush out and empty the butt into containers as the butt gets full quickly (only had one rain shower since having it) It gets water from a downpipe from a large flat roof garage.

Wilkos have butts cheaper.

Mrs_B_12

I don't have a garage but just wondering if I'd be worth asking my neighbour if I could run a pipe from the guttering of his that borders our garden.

simgranny

maybe one of these space saving wall mounted water butts would fit where your downpipe is

http://http://www.capitalgardens.co.uk/v3/original-wall-mounted-water-butt-p-9031.html

Wig

I can't understand the layout you describe, but basically I think you are saying you only have 1 downpipe and it's at the side of the house, and you can't site a butt there because presumably it would block the path.

Have you got a garden shed? there may be a downpipe on there, or you could fit a gutter and downpipe. Or you could divert your existing downpipe towards the back corner of the house, you might need a tradesman to do that for you, so won't be cheap.

Leaving it open to collect the rain is a waste of time. In 1 night I can collect 200 litres from one side of a relatively small roof. the butt next to it open to just catch rain will have only filled by 2 inches. If you did try to do this you would need an upside down umbrella as big as possible with a hole cut beside the top bit. you can hold the umbrella in place with string on some of the spokes taken down to the ground and tied to tent pegs.

something like this the red bit is the hole you cut.


You could fit a slimline butt to your "side of the house downpipe" and then transfer the water to your barrel butt when the slimline one fills up. Like the 1st 2 pictures on this page
http://www.waterbuttsdirect.co.uk/spacesaving.htm

Mrs_B_12

We definately don't have space for even a slimline butt anywhere near the downpipe. The path round the side where the pipe goes is only about 3 foot wide and has a wall then a hedge the other side so nothing can go there. We can't divert the pipe because it's a Council property.

We have got a couple of very small sheds so we might have to look and see if we can rig up a pipe there. They're only cheap things and no guttering on them already.

I love the umbrella idea though! Could end up being the solution if we can't sort out anything else, thanks.

Wig

You could put pebbles in the umbrella to stop it blowing away (better than the tied down with string idea - easier to lift it off).

If you want a more complex "umbrella" system you can use an 8ft x 6ft blue tarpauling from a cheapo pound shop £2 or from B&Q. tied to 4 poles at ea corner. a small hole in the middle (push a fat knitting needle through), put a plastic plant pot with some stones in in the centre of the tarp. Water drips into the butt.

Or you could use the wall of your house, put 2 hanging basket mounts 8 feet apart about 8 - 10 ft high. 2 X 6ft poles 6 ft apart, the tarp will form a natural valley and you'll need to tie a weight to the valley centre to stop it blowing around, water flows into butt. Like this....