Water Butt Connector Pipe Link Kit

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Most water butts come with all the essential parts, instructions and basic accessories to get you up and running - but there are plenty of other handy extras you can buy to really get the best out of your new water harvesting container.

Further water butts can be added to the chain in exactly the same way. Five 200 litre water butts connected in this way would give around 1,000 litres of water storage capacity for far less than the cost of one 1,000 litre water storage tank.Downpipe plastic or mesh guards are excellent accessories which will stop leaves and other debris getting into your water butt. There are very easy to install and feature flexible slats to enable you to adjust them to fit the width of any downpipe opening. Each water butt comes with a threaded hole in the side and a tap to fit, so it’s a case of screwing one into the other, nice and tight. Use a watering can rather than a hose pipe as this will significantly reduce the amount of water you use Let's not forget the old faithful watering can that's found in just about every garden in the UK - we feature several types of plastic and gavanised metal cans to cater for all your trips from you butt to your flower beds and greenhouse. Place the water butt on its stand and using a spirit level, level it with the bottom of the hole and align it with the water pipe and draw a line.

If you have a traditional cottage garden and don’t want a big plastic barrel to spoil the look, then you can buy genuine oak whiskey barrels. Plastic butts in the style of terracotta pots, stone containers and wooden barrels are also available. If you have a large roof and need to store a lot of water, you can connect two or more butts up together or invest in a really large storage tank. Connected in this manner (as illustrated above), when the first water butt ( Butt 1) in the chain is full, water will start to flow into the second water butt ( Butt 2). It is essential that the water outlet from Butt 1 is below the height of the rainwater/greywater input (arriving from the diverter), and that it is also a couple of centimeters above the water input hole of Butt 2. Camilla Sharman has worked in publishing and marketing for over 30 years and has covered a wide range of sectors within the business and consumer industries both as a feature, content, and freelance writer. Attach the rainwater diverter to the downpipe where you have cut it off. Attach the piece of pipe you cut off to the bottom of the diverter. Insert the diverter into the slot. The design of the rainwater diverter assures that your water butt will never overflow as any excess water will continue to flow into the downpipe.

One essential accessory is the rain diverter kit which is is used to effectively direct rainwater from a downpipe into your water butt. The morning and evening are the best times to water your plants as the water doesn’t evaporate in the heat of the day before it can reach the roots All water butts should be sold with a lid, both for safety and to keep the water fresh by stopping leaves and other debris from falling in. If you have young children, look out for water butts that feature a child-safe lid.

Move your water butt into place and take your flexi pipe which connects the rainwater diverter to the water butt. Measure the amount of pipe needed to attach the water butt to the water diverter and cut it to size. Attach the diverter to the water butt with the piece of pipe supplied. Fit the lid onto the water butt and wait for it to rain!I connected two water butts at the bottom by replacing the taps with 22mm tank connnectors and linking together. The advantage of linking at the bottom is that water can be taken from both butts with one tap. Linking at the top requires two taps, one for each butt to kake use of the water! There are also plenty of cleaning accessories available for cleaning the interior of a water butt. The products available to buy for reducing smells, scum, algae, harmful bacteria and green water come in liquid or tablet form. There are also silver and copper anti-microbial water cleaner discs which use industrial silver which is also found in water purifiers and other cleansing devices. These tablets can destroy fungal and micro-organisms and are also safe to use in ponds, fish tanks, horse troughs and bird baths. The design of a watering can can mean that much of the water doesn’t reach the roots where it is most needed, so be careful with this