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05-07-2006, 06:39 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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Hello,

I would like to buy some water butts. Where is the best (cheapest?)
place to get them? Is the water company the cheapest? They seem to
sell them for about £35. I think in B&Q and such places it is £24 for
the butt, £10 for the stand, and the diverter is on top of that, so I
guess the water company is £10 cheaper but obviously there is a big
wait.

Big placcy dustbins? Old water tanks being removed from houses? The
latter's what my parents used to use, anyway.

The ideal is a large capacity one with a tap at the bottom to fill smaller
vessels such as watering cans. To get the vessels under the taps you need
the butt to be on a suitable - and strong - stand. Water is heavy.

Bricks. Come to think of it I think my mother's existing waterbutt is
on bricks. There's a pipe near the bottom of the tank with a tap on it
for removing water from the bottom.

Then you need a proper, well fitting but easily removed lid. Ideally it will
have holes/slots to let in the rain. The lid is to keep out foreign bodies
and daylight - which will quickly encourage algae to grow.

Piece of corrugated something or other, could well be roofing asbestos
from when the garage was re-roofed some years back. It seems to work,
anyway.

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