Empty water butt - again !!

[WendyS]

Heavy rain all night - disappointingly still no water coming down water trap into our water butt. Can anybody tell us whether roof gutterings are fixed absolutely level, or whether they're fixed with a very slight incline? We're beginning to wonder if ours isn't quite level and all the water from the roof is flowing into the gulley & along to opposite side of the house where the other roof downpipe goes into the ground near a soakaway which has a small grill cover over it?

[spacechimp]

A gutter should fall between 13-19mm every 3m it runs. (apparently) :D

[spacechimp]

Which is a gradient of about -0.005. =)

[nickmo]

WendyS - time for the ladder, bucket or water and a test then, with some assistance. If the fall is away from the d/pipe you will have to re-align the guttering to aim at the butt.

[nickmo]

Meant to add - or move the butt to the other d/pipe....

[Lonnie]

Hi Wendy, I gave an answer to this post, right or wrong, its gone, I checked my profile, and its been deleted, basically, I had suggested near enough what nickmo has said, I don't for a minute think that you reported it, but I think one of the other two that have posted to your question have, and if whoever it was comes back, maybe they can say why.

[spacechimp]

It was not I.

[nickmo]

and not this end either

[spacechimp]

My pretentious use of language incriminates me. To the batmobile.

There are two possibilities; the deletion was accidental--I have noticed that I can't access my subscribed threads; AB deleted your response because it was too similar to nickmo's.

[Lonnie]

In that case chaps, I apologise, but someone did, I hope they have the courage to own up, nickmo, your a bit more knowledgable about garden stuff than I, and if you've posted first, I don't, because generally I can't add anything, I know my answer was there, because I checked, but there you go

[nickmo]

Lonnie - can't say I've noticed many instances where similar posts are deleted before they appear (I know I won't see them if they haven't been added but you know wht I mean....) as the send process is just about instant, but the whole system was fouled up earlier today - tried posting a few different replies that never got through and the site has been slow with only a few new postings at all, until about 1700hrs, so your replies may have been caught in a loop of some sort - all far to techy for me to be bothered with - I'm off to hug a tree and shout at the seagulls to get off my roof......