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

In article , Micko [email protected] writes:
| 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.

What's it made of? If wood, plastic or metal, all you have to
do is drill an appropriate hole in it, fit an appropriate fitting,
and lead the pipe off that. If you have no equipment, find
someone who does and bribe him appropriately.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article , Micko [email protected] writes:
| 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.

What's it made of? If wood, plastic or metal, all you have to
do is drill an appropriate hole in it, fit an appropriate fitting,
and lead the pipe off that. If you have no equipment, find
someone who does and bribe him appropriately.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

LBS do mail order plumbing fittings, you should be able to use something
like a tank connector which you can screw a tap onto ( they list several
sorts and sizes at around £5) or you could scavenge the bits off an old
toilet cistern!

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

"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.

Mine has just overflowed naturally into its surroundings for fifteen
years without any ill efects.

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

Franz

"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.

Q the Barrowcloth and our 'Cruising Queen'

Mike

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In article ,
"Mike" writes:
|
| I'm confused :-((

You are :-)

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

You may want one that is permanently open and leads to a drain,
to avoid overflow spilling over the sides. You don't need one
with certain kinds of drainpipe diverter, with ballcocks and
when overflow doesn't matter.

The tap you use to get the water out for use is separate, as
is any linkage between butts.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.