Garden Plumbing

[adamr7747]

Hi All,

We've got a detached garage. I'd like to stick 2 or 3 water butts behind it (raised up to give water pressure), with a tap at the front of the building - so I need to run pipes. I'll probably do the plumbing with 22mm plastic, but there're two things I haven't worked out:
- how can I connect from a rain-diverter on the downpipe?
- how do I connect to the water butts - presumably tank connectors won't work on the curved plastic of the butt?

Thanks for any pointers,
Adam

 

[adamr7747]

Well, I've changed plans slightly. I'm going to use blue MDPE and hope that a 25mm straight connector will work with the rain diverter. I'm also going to use a second hand IBC as the water butt, so that avoids problems with curved plastic etc.

However, I do still have one problem... For one bit of the plan, I'm going to divert all of the water from a short section of gutter so want to connect the blue pipe to the gutter. Any ideas? I was thinking about fitting a tank connector to a capped running running outlet...

Does anyone know where I can find a cap for a standard 68mm round downpipe? (Or, in fact 65mm as the running outlet has a reduced-size to accept the 68mm pipe...)

Cheers,
Adam