"Micko" [email protected] wrote in message ...
Got a water butt off a garage which quickly fills with water. Have to
connect a hose at base to drain etc.

Do they still make water butts with a socket at the top of the butt to
accept a standard hose tap ? I have tried the diy stores with no success
and would prefer a mail order company as I don't have transport.

Incidentally i have heard of down pipe diverters but this isn't what I
am after.
Thanks.

Micko


I'm confused :-((

Why do you want a tap at the TOP of the butt?

I have 5 butts across the back of my garage and they are connected together
as low as possible and the tap is at the bottom on just one, just high
enough to get a watering can under. They all drain into this one, water
finds its own level, and any time we have too much rain and the butts are
full, (very rare) they just spill over onto the garden.

If you have a tap at the TOP, as soon as you start to draw water off, once
the level is below the tap, i.e. a couple of inches down from the top, the
tap is high and dry ;-))???? and you are unable to get any more water out of
the butt:-((

Many people in this newsgroup will now take GREAT DELIGHT in telling me that
I am stupid and have it all wrong.

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Mike

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