watering the lawn via a water butt

[Lukourgos]

Instead of using mains water from the garden tap to spray the lawn I am considering buying a water butt and an electrically operated water pump using my existing sprayer. Has anyone tried this and is practical?

[buildersmate]

Typical volume of large butt - 300 litres
Flow rate through sprinkler - 15 litres per minute estimated
Approximate time before butt empties from full - 20 minutes?
Will it be worth it?

[jake-the-peg]

How about one of these?

http://uk.ebid.net/fo...3.htm?from=googlebase

Not pretty but 1,000 litres - just remember 1,000 litres weigh 1 tonne

[craft1948]

What do you do with all the water in winter......if you don't use it won't it overflow?

[jake-the-peg]

typically you can get a rainwater diverter that attatches to your downpipe. When full you turn it off and the water's just diverted as it was before.

http://www.screwfix.c...verter%20Black%2070mm

for example

[DEN53]

I have a water butt - its empty at the moment - not unless I fill it up with next door's hose, as they are not on a meter.........

[ethandron]

we have two water butts, both full since last nights rain. we have an overflow on one to fill the other, and a diverter on the down pipe so when they're both full the rain water just goes down the pipe into the grid. no problem.
of course, now we have two full water butts and a garden that doesn't need watering...
lukourgos, i would just leave the lawn, it'll soon recover when the rain starts even if it looks quite dead now.

[carlton23]

Thursday is St Swithuns Day so expect 40days of rain.