Those pesky mosquitos will get in however close fitting the lid is, You can put a few drips of cooking oil in the butt to deter them but not if you are going to use it to top up a pond.
Directing guttering into multiple water butts
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Those pesky mosquitos will get in however close fitting the lid is, You can put a few drips of cooking oil in the butt to deter them but not if you are going to use it to top up a pond.
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I would have said connect at the bottom too.
But then how long before the water in the last one gets used?
I've been looking at IBCs as an alternative to normal butts - if I do go with them my idea was to fix wooden cladding to the cages.
...and you can buy covers for them, if I remember correctly.
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Yes - I imagine it would last a lot longer...
You have the same total amount of water.
Yes, but this:
implies you'd be using water from the butts earlier in the chain first, so until those were drained you'd not start on the last one. So how long before the water in the last one gets used? If you've taken water from the earlier ones, then there won't even be any new rainwater going into the last until they've refilled.
Plus linking at the bottom means you only need one point to drain from.
Yes - it will be the last one you use if you link them at the top in order to have as large a head as possible in the earlier ones, which you'd use first.
Are you ever going to answer the question about how long it will be before the water in the last one you use gets used? Or are you puzzled by that question as every time you use any of the water stored in your butts you always use all of it from all of them?
Are you ever going to answer the question about how long it will be before the water in the last one you use gets used? Or are you puzzled by that question as every time you use any of the water stored in your butts you always use all of it from all of them?
At the end of winter, they are all full to the top. I can use them in any order I like. If they all get empty, the one nearest the downpipe will fill first.
If not, whichever of the empty or partially empty will refill, starting nearest the downpipe.
I like having at least one well-filled butt, because it will flow fast. A bunch of nearly empty ones will all flow slow, for example if I am filling watering cans or running a hose. That would be tiresome.
It's rare that they are all empty. By the end of a long dry summer the garden is heavily mulched to reduce loss.
If not, whichever of the empty or partially empty will refill, starting nearest the downpipe.
I like having at least one well-filled butt, because it will flow fast. A bunch of nearly empty ones will all flow slow, for example if I am filling watering cans or running a hose. That would be tiresome.
It's rare that they are all empty. By the end of a long dry summer the garden is heavily mulched to reduce loss.
No, I can use them in any order I like. The last to be used does not need to be the furthest from the downpipe. Or indeed the nearest.
If they are all full, the overflow goes between the grapevines.
as i said on uhm
linking at the bottom in my eyes is the only option as any other option causes stagnant water and needing multiple take off points
you link at the bottom providing tanks are level with each other you can place them all over the garden and takeoffs can be anywhere on the tanks or connecting hose
if the hose does have a high point above any tank entry point you will need a take off point lower than the high point both sides
also the transfer hose highest point must be lower than the overflow point on any barrel to avoid water draining before all the system is full
linking at the bottom in my eyes is the only option as any other option causes stagnant water and needing multiple take off points
you link at the bottom providing tanks are level with each other you can place them all over the garden and takeoffs can be anywhere on the tanks or connecting hose
if the hose does have a high point above any tank entry point you will need a take off point lower than the high point both sides
also the transfer hose highest point must be lower than the overflow point on any barrel to avoid water draining before all the system is full
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