Hi.
I was hoping someone maybe able to help with a problem I'm having with diverting water from butt 1 to butt 2. Butt 1 is at the front of the house next to the drain pipe and butt 2, which holds more water, is located in my back garden as its out of the way. I don't have a drain pipe in my back garden, so I've drilled an outlet hole into butt 1 and connected a hosepipe from butt 1 to butt 2.
The problem I'm having is that when butt 1 fills to the outlet level it trickles if at all in to butt 2. But, if I remove the hose from b2 and walk near to b1 and lower it, let the water run, then reconnect to b2 it comes through faster until it goes below the outlet level in b1. So when it then fills up again, I have to repeat the process again. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? The butts are approx 5 metres apart. I can take pics if needed
Thanks in advance.
(Sorry it's long winded!)
I was hoping someone maybe able to help with a problem I'm having with diverting water from butt 1 to butt 2. Butt 1 is at the front of the house next to the drain pipe and butt 2, which holds more water, is located in my back garden as its out of the way. I don't have a drain pipe in my back garden, so I've drilled an outlet hole into butt 1 and connected a hosepipe from butt 1 to butt 2.
The problem I'm having is that when butt 1 fills to the outlet level it trickles if at all in to butt 2. But, if I remove the hose from b2 and walk near to b1 and lower it, let the water run, then reconnect to b2 it comes through faster until it goes below the outlet level in b1. So when it then fills up again, I have to repeat the process again. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? The butts are approx 5 metres apart. I can take pics if needed
Thanks in advance.
(Sorry it's long winded!)