Rain Water Diverter

[Knight of Albion]

Spotted one of these on ebay. Thought it looked really good.

Has anyone here got one fitted? If you have, can anyone tell me whether you can fit a hosepipe to it? I've got a steel water tank, the problem is it's about 50 metres away from the down pipe I'd like to connect it to...

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[veggiechicken]

There seem to be lots of different RW Diverters.
Can you tell us which one you're interested in please?

[WendyC]

All of my water butts are connected to a downpipe using rainwater diverter like this one:


Is that what you had in mind?

[Knight of Albion]

Yes dear Wendy, it's like that, but white.

[Bigmallly]

There is no reason why you cannot fit a hosepipe to it, it may need a bit of modification as I think the corrugated pipe is wider than a standard hosepipe. You will also have to incorporate an overflow from your tank as the diverter will not be able to feed it back down the drain as intended.

[Knight of Albion]

Thank you, dear Mally. I'll give it a go.

When it rains, I catch it and bucket it down. Though there's obviously a limit to how much of that you can do. And when it rains at night ....
So I thought this would make life a lot easier.

The water tank has a drainage hole at the top so excess water can drain off.

[spamvindaloo]

I have the exact same type of diverter as in WendyC's picture, it came with the water butt. The guttering I fitted to my smallish 8x6 shed has been sufficient so far to keep my 210 litre water butt full enough for me to water eleven (yes, I know ) blueberry plants with this attached to the downpipe.