Saving Water without a downpipe!

Queen.Bess

Hi Everybody!

This year, for the first time, I'm gorwing lots of soft fruits and they seem to be coming on a treat! However, in order to water them I am having to use my tap water, and being on a meter, this is adding up!

I would love to have a water butt but we live in a mid-terraced house without a downpipe that I could tap into. Is anyone else in the same situation who is able to save water? How do you do it?

Any ideas gratefully received! Thanks!

elsien

I've got a small downpipe just from one small bit of roof, which doesn't get a lot of rain and just has a slimline water butt. I tend to top it up from the times when I need to run the tap - running the hot water tap and waiting for the hot to come through, the horrible tasting water from the kettle when it's been boiled too often, that sort of thing. I keep a jug by the sink, and I've surprised myself with how much water was just going down the drain.
There's also the grey water from washing up, baths etc, but I think that would need using straight away or it goes smelly.
I think I also read somewhere about using an upturned brolly to gather rain water into a butt, but i haven't tried it, so don't know how practical that really is.

squiggle37

Queen.Bess wrote: »

Hi Everybody!

This year, for the first time, I'm gorwing lots of soft fruits and they seem to be coming on a treat! However, in order to water them I am having to use my tap water, and being on a meter, this is adding up!

I would love to have a water butt but we live in a mid-terraced house without a downpipe that I could tap into. Is anyone else in the same situation who is able to save water? How do you do it?

Any ideas gratefully received! Thanks!

Im the same as you, i dont have any pipes on outside of my house in back garden not even my kitchen waste, bathroom goes down the middle of house, im dreading it when my water bill comes, id like to know if anyone has any ideas, dont think my landlandy would approve if i put a downpipe from the guttering.

katiel

Do you have a shed, garage, greenhouse or anything generally with a roof? We have fixed guttering to two sides of our shed and one side of the greenhouse, added a bit of makeshift downpipe to each, and that's enough to fill three large water butts.