""I collect the run-off from my garage, which is 20' x 10' ""

Mine is the same but backing up to a garden shed, both feed into water butts
linked together, five of them :-))

Another butt is fed off one of the downpipes from the roof and yet another
is fed from the roof of the veranda which goes right across the back of the
house.

Mike
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"Gordon H" wrote in message
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In message , David in
Normandy writes
On 04/09/2010 17:47, Mike wrote:
Hi y'all, just some words of advice, I have just dismantled my diverter
on the downcoming rainwater pipe leading to the waterbutts as we are
moving house soon, and found a lot of debri that included cherry seeds
etc, this must have stopped 50% of my rainwater collection for a couple
of years, I doubt if I would have ever looked there for problem, but it
is well worth checking along with guttering etc.
Every little helps. Mike, Cambridgeshire Dustbowl.

I simply put my rainwater downpipe directly into the water butt. Then put
an overflow on the water butt so the excess goes to... another water butt.
And the overflow water from that goes to ... another water butt. Any after
that goes down the drain. So I don't waste a drop of rain. I'm not
convinced those diverters transfer 100% of the rainwater?

I collect the run-off from my garage, which is 20' x 10' and has a steel
roof, so it loses none to absorption. It provides all the water I need
for the garden.
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