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So it looks like a drought all around this summer...
I have been using a 100 litre water butt for a couple of years now, but thinking of expanding due to drought & water conservation.
I am sure I read somewhere that you can connect & create a daisy chain of butts?
Has anyone done this?
Or are people using other methods?
yup. There are kits available, r its fairly easy to create your own using bits of hose etc.
I've got two water butts daisy chained. If you go for it then link them with a hose at the bottom of the butt not at the top! That way the water level is the same in both butts and you can just draw water from one (and potentially put others in awkward access locations).
Yup, just link them, at their bases, no problems.
I just used a bit of garden hose. Drill a hole that is a tight fit in the side about 50mm from the top in both butts and push a short length of hose in. Keep it as straight as possible to avoid trapped air. Once one is full it overflows into the next. You could use bigger pipe and fancy fittings but this works OK.
I wish I'd linked 5-6 225L butts together down the side of my house - it's redundant space, and has 50% of the roof draining there.....
Oh well...
DrP
(exciting insight into my hopes and dreams and fantasies there folks....)
I just used a bit of garden hose. Drill a hole that is a tight fit in the side about 50mm from the top in both butts and push a short length of hose in. Keep it as straight as possible to avoid trapped air. Once one is full it overflows into the next. You could use bigger pipe and fancy fittings but this works OK.
If you do that you have to have a seperate tap and take-off system for each butt. If you just get a linking kit you can always attach to one butt and pretend it's all one.