gathering rain water - help needed

katskorner

Wilkinson do very cheap water butts. Cheaper than anywhere else this season from what I can tell.

edwardscutt

hi all
trying a post in a more current thread:
after hours of trawling ebay and internet for cheap large rainwater containers/butts around 1000L (ibcs, old ponds, fruit juice containers) and never finding one near me for pickup (and couriering costs nearly £50) I stumbled across the idea of putting liners in DIY wooden containers. I've sourced a 1,200L plastic 3-ply liner for collapsible IBCs that have 2inch input in top and 2inch threaded output in bottom for watertight connection to hosepipe.
I would have to place a trade order for around 100 of them to put them out into the 'rainwater harvesting community'.
The question is am I mad - are there other people out there prepared to build a square cage to save their precious rainwater (I'm building mine out of reclaimed scaffolding boards got free from local scaffolding firm and secured together with metal building band)? I could sell the liners for about £20 - £30 each and make a few quid on each sale for handling the bulk order. They only weigh 1.5kg and fold up to a small box so postage about a fiver on top. I've got a sample liner so making my cage now down at my allotment to post pics - is anyone else interested in the idea or has done or seen something similar? I'm a bit worried about the lateral forces of over 1 tonne of water! £35 and some time and nails for 1000+litres
An ibc would have been good if I could actually get my hands on one (which had been used for foodstuffs and not dodgy chemicals), and then there was the problem of tying it to the roof of my car as won't fit in it.
thanks in advance, ed

littlejaffa

edwardscutt wrote: »

hi all
I would have to place a trade order for around 100 of them to put them out into the 'rainwater harvesting community'.

I'd do this with wooden pallets, and pond liner, it should cost pennies.
when b&q sell them for £20, havig to pay postage costs on someone elses homemade version would drive me to buy new from b&q if i had the cash or diy if i didn't.

I found the ones recomended below were reasonable and ideal for my needs thou. thanks again guys xx