Recent content by bopcol

I've finally got everything together. I've been on holiday then had to wait 8 weeks for the 24ft of tubing and surprisingly we have very little rain in north Essex. But now everything has been set up and it works. One point of interest is that one has to make sure the tubing from the converter...

Thanks once again stem for your invaluable advice. I'm looking forward to the challenge.

Thanks again. I appreciate that your sketch is diagrammatic and will take your advice. My butt has two per-drilled holes at the same height just in case I wanted to connect to another butt, so I should think that if the inlet and outlet holes are the same height it should be OK.

That looks brilliant stem, that's exactly my layout with of course space under the door to run a pipe. I think I could manage that, the only the tricky bit would be to drill a hole in the down pipe in which to connect the overflow pipe without making a mess of the down pipe and also ensuring...

Thanks ladylola The garage door is an ordinary door at the back of the garage that leads to the garden. The down pipe is one side of the door and I was planning to place the butt on the other side of the door. The problem is that the rain converter and the hose entering the butt must be...

Thanks wrathkeg. There is only one place where it sits nicely and is unobtrusive and that's where I mention in my post - the other side of the garage door where there is no down pipe. So I think I'll have to put up with it in an unsightly position. I'll just not allow friends and family into...

Thanks Stem. I had completely overlooked the sediment, but I suppose a filter diverter at £70 might do the trick. I'm not too concerned about the speed of rain collection, but thanks anyway for pointing that out. I'll have to weigh up whether I want to spend money on piping and a filter...

I want to place my water butt about 10 feet away from the down pipe as in between I have a garage door. I have a diverter and wonder if it would work if I connected the butt pipe in such a manner so that from the diverter I ran it vertically down to the ground than ran it horizontally for 10...