The 90 degree elbow on the end provides the venting and the only place that you need the window screen to keep in or out and mosquitoes, this elbow is also above the rest of the pipe so it is the high place and the overflow!! Hope it helps!! Spread the knowledge!
I ordered uniseals from Bulk Reef Supply for $1.50 to 3.50 each, depending on the size. Very easy to use, but the hole size MUST be right.I use the barrels to augment watering for new trees or shrubs on very hot, dry spells. I can penetrate the barrel to attach a simple outlet. Have worked very well for me for over 2 years. If installed carefully, they do not leak.
This is brilliant how you need just one connection to each barrel!! The video was really helpful and will save me some time and money. Thanks for posting!!
you guys need to get ''bulkheads'' from a marine or aquaium supply place. you get them in any size.you connections from barrel to barrel will be sealed and pvc will attach very easy to them.
Easy! Lay the drums horizontal and make a manifold piping connecting both bungs on every drum, one bung above the other. The vent goes at the highest point, and the overflow out the end of the top manifold pipe. I built an auto-pumping gray water collection setup this way, and it runs fine, hands free in a below surface installation.
Claude Armstrong with the setup you describe you have water you cant access in the bottom of each barrel and sediment that will settle in each barrel, loss of water pressure and a possible safety hazard the higher you stack 300lb barrels of water with no edges the more dangerous it becomes
You can also connect your barrels with these bulkheads called uniseals. They have been on the market for a while now and the ensure that you dont need any sealants. I use them for just about everything and they work really well.
Only thing I can see a problem with is white barrels let in sun and then algae will set in, but for gardens maybe this is a good thing or store out of sun light? I like the blur barrels. Love the video.
A friend gifted me (4) barrels last summer and they have been sitting in my yard waiting to collect water ever since. I have watched so many videos and although it may seem very easy to build for most, its not easy for many city girls like myself who just learned to use a hammer instead of her heal. YOU have made this frustrating project SUPER easy. Thank you for providing sizing, part name and sku #....I am so excited to go to home depot and ask for 2" 2 in. PVC DWV All-Hub Tee, 2 in. PVC Sch. 40 Male Adapter and a 2 in. PVC Sch. 40 S x S x S Tee... Thank you so much.... AMAZING!!!!! Excuse me sir/ ma'am? Can you help me find the thingy..... lol
Love your setup great job. I just finished putting most of a 3 barrel system together. I was thinking though, couldn't I put a second Y connector above the one that is there but turn in the other direction to send overflow back to the drainpipe? So downspout would go all the way to the ground.... at the top, water would be diverted into 2" pipe into barrel, once its full water would go up to second Y connector and go into drainpipe and flow out to ground.
It's pretty simple if you want to use up the space to get more water in the barrels make are step system, the main tank thats getting the water from the gutters should be the highest and the last barrel should be the lowest and the barrels in between should go down like are step so each barrel is lower the other, doing it this way also lets you run are pipe from the top of the barrel which lets you fill up that gap instead of having the pipes on the side. I have this system on mine and works great.
How do you screen against mosquitoes? I understand then inlet and outlet need screening. I plan to use a diverter. If I put screening between the diverter and the pipe to the barrel, will it still fit tightly together enough? Ditto on the final overflow on the last barrel.
Depends on how you want to it. If you only have one barrel, a pump with a hose will do it, if you have multiple barrels, you'll need to drill one hole in each barrel and you can hook them up to a manifold system so that they all feed one valve. Information cupboard com shows a nice way to do it, and the parts to do it with, so that you don't need to use caulk to seal the holes. Or you can put one faucet per barrel, up to you how you want to do it.
You realize that on the last end barrel, you should just run the exit pipe to the ground for overflow instead of using an upturned elbow, right? The water level will stabilize at the bottom of each barrel "t," and you won't have so much splash from water exiting the pipe when hitting the ground. Other than that, love your system, and will be adding a second barrel to my system using your system to connect it. I don't like drilling several holes in barrels either.
What is the part shown around 5:55 that you put at the very end of the barrel chain? What is it called to locate it in a store? SKU? And how do you connect a overflow pipe to it?
only down side to the top feed connectors is that each barrel requires it's own spout. if one were the invert the barrels you cold design one point in one point out.
won't this need a spigot on every barrel though? that's another $10 and having to switch around hoses when each is empty?. i'm trying a similar setup but with the barrels upside-down so pipe is beneath and all barrels fill together. small hole above for air to escape, and 1 spigot of a central tee (you have to buy some reducers to get down to 3/4 drip tube or garden hose adapter)
Wonderful! I have started buying materials. One question: When all barrels are full, can the extra water go down a downspout? In the video, it seems to overflow the open elbow at the end of the system.
Cool video! But I have never seen pvc for such a low price, such as you are saying; especially at that width. But I do live in NJ, where prices of goods are above average. Would absolutely love to come across cheap pvc! Pvc ball valves and unions at that width cost almost 10 bucks each, where I live.
Yeah we had to order ours online but they arent that expensive pending on how many you need and the size of pvc that you want to use. Im sure you could get away with connecting the barrels with 1" pvc which would only cost $2.50 each, or $5 for 2". I guess it really just all depends on how much you want to spend and how easy you want to make your build on yourself. Either way, great video! Definitely some useful information!
Consider spending a couple of bucks and get bulk head fittings for mounting spigots. Silicone caulk will leach nasty chemicals into the water. And 1/4 turn ball valves are much better than garden faucets as the have larger holes for the water to flow out.
So I understand your video here but you didn't say how many hose bibs you used to get the garden hose connected ??? One barrel or all of them...Would it work off of one barrel? I'm using 3 barrels in my system... James
this sounds very cool i would like to do this but how did you find a car wash and talk to them about buying the barrels i live in Mississippi where you live you may have just got lucky and found a cool guy to sell you the barrels anyway thanks for this cool video i have a few barrels and even a 300 gallon plastic tank but they all had deadly chemicals in them would you know a good way to clean them out? or is it hopeless to clean them just need new barrels i want to use the tanks for drinking water
so im intrested in how you get the water out of the barrels cause i like your method but i dont really want to drill alot of holes in the barrel thanks :)
you do not need an air vent in each barrel but only in the last one. the water filling up in the barrels will push the air through the pipes into the last one and then out that vent.
Hey man, thanks for the ideas. If you wanted to create pressure, you commented to someone that you could use a cheap pump to connect to your hose. Is this a pump that would go after the spigot coming out of the bottom of the barrels, but before the hose? And do you have an example of a brand or something? Thanks again.
A man that owned a car wash decided rain water collection would be more eco friendly and cut down on his water bill. He was fined $5000.00. In the US, land with aquifers are being purchased at an an alarming rate, by billionaires. Water is now a commodity.
what type of filter are you using? rain water from roof here you would have what ever is on the roof washed in with the water plus what ever pollution in the rain as well. can you show or make a video on what type filtering should be used?
rzimmer1 leaf & twig guard over the rain gutters, then a roof washer set up in this video ruclips.net/video/j1xtuHEYaLo/видео.html time - 3 05 - 3 30 cleans all debris off roof and provides clean rain water each time. just make sure to drain roof washer after each rain. Hope this helps
if the barrels were connected at the very bottom then they would all fill up at exactly the same rate and when you need the water back, the barrels will all empty at the exact same rate...this is equilibrium....powered by gravity....all you have to do is turn your setup upside down.....and filter everything that goes in ONE barrel that will feed the rest...
Not entirely true... The water cannot go in the barrel unless the air can get out. If the barrels are inverted, since water is heaver than air you would need a relief hole in the top of every barrel in order to fill the barrels. Otherwise, you will have a pipe full of water and barrels full of air.
Any idea how much water your first flush holds? I'm guessing that if you took that amount of water up on your roof and tried to flush it clean you would find that it doesn't wash off much of the dirt and debris off the roof and down the gutters.
thouroghly rinse untill there are no more suds. the content label must say bioderadable or not have hazard labels for toxic chemicals on them. then they are safe after thourogh rinsing
You could start a siphon with hose between barrels from the top and do for each new barrel. It will keep water in each barrel the same depth, , so as the first fills all subsequent barrels will have the same depth and no leaking. In Colorado it is against the law for us to collect rainwater [stupid law]. A builder wanted to have an area catch basin use all rainwater to water area lawns, they would not allow it. We have had a drought for a few years and now in burn areas flooding.
Why not put your first rain barrel up higher than the rest and the pressure will fill the rest to the top with proper placement of plumbing and only leave the last barrel open for an air vent.
Hey Greencabbie! Great video overall! Something has happened to your audio, is there any possibility that you can re-upload it? Thank you for including stock numbers for the connectors....few ever do that here on RUclips. But the numbers are in the missing audio! :-) Again, good job!
expensive though and hard to find at local retailers, mostly have to get online, they dont carry at home depot or lowes. Thus defeating the $5 rainbarrel
The size of the drains aren't actually made for the amount of rain usually, they are that size to allow the debris, leaves, blossom petals, bird crap, twigs, etc., to flow freely through without getting stuck and causing a blockage.
why don't you put the connections between the barrels at the BOTTOM so that they would all fill up at the same time? Then the last one would have an overflow at the top.
Just subscribed to your wonderful knowledge bank. I have to ask (and I know others must have) .....2$ Really? How? I live in the pacific northwest and the cheapest I can find these barrels is about 75 bucks! Ouch!.
grey water is used water from the house this is rain water. We use it to water plant but if you had the right type of filtration ie uv, & 3 stage carbon or reverse osmosis, berkey you could use this as drinking water
BEST rainbarrel system I have seen, short, all info you need!!!!!!!!
The 90 degree elbow on the end provides the venting and the only place that you need the window screen to keep in or out and mosquitoes, this elbow is also above the rest of the pipe so it is the high place and the overflow!! Hope it helps!! Spread the knowledge!
I ordered uniseals from Bulk Reef Supply for $1.50 to 3.50 each, depending on the size. Very easy to use, but the hole size MUST be right.I use the barrels to augment watering for new trees or shrubs on very hot, dry spells. I can penetrate the barrel to attach a simple outlet. Have worked very well for me for over 2 years. If installed carefully, they do not leak.
This is brilliant how you need just one connection to each barrel!! The video was really helpful and will save me some time and money. Thanks for posting!!
Hi Don Wagner thanks for the support, if this video was helpful PLEASE SHARE it so others can get some help too!
you guys need to get ''bulkheads'' from a marine or aquaium supply place. you get them in any size.you connections from barrel to barrel will be sealed and pvc will attach very easy to them.
Easy! Lay the drums horizontal and make a manifold piping connecting both bungs on every drum, one bung above the other. The vent goes at the highest point, and the overflow out the end of the top manifold pipe. I built an auto-pumping gray water collection setup this way, and it runs fine, hands free in a below surface installation.
Claude Armstrong with the setup you describe you have water you cant access in the bottom of each barrel and sediment that will settle in each barrel, loss of water pressure and a possible safety hazard the higher you stack 300lb barrels of water with no edges the more dangerous it becomes
Thank you so much for sharing your rain water harvesting methods and how to source the barrels affordably.
cr500ridr Glad we could be of help, let us know how your build goes
You can also connect your barrels with these bulkheads called uniseals. They have been on the market for a while now and the ensure that you dont need any sealants. I use them for just about everything and they work really well.
Hey how did u get the gutter piece from the roof to connect to the top of the 2" pipe so that it would fit?
Only thing I can see a problem with is white barrels let in sun and then algae will set in, but for gardens maybe this is a good thing or store out of sun light? I like the blur barrels. Love the video.
A friend gifted me (4) barrels last summer and they have been sitting in my yard waiting to collect water ever since. I have watched so many videos and although it may seem very easy to build for most, its not easy for many city girls like myself who just learned to use a hammer instead of her heal. YOU have made this frustrating project SUPER easy. Thank you for providing sizing, part name and sku #....I am so excited to go to home depot and ask for 2" 2 in. PVC DWV All-Hub Tee, 2 in. PVC Sch. 40 Male Adapter and a 2 in. PVC Sch. 40 S x S x S Tee... Thank you so much.... AMAZING!!!!! Excuse me sir/ ma'am? Can you help me find the thingy..... lol
Love your setup great job. I just finished putting most of a 3 barrel system together. I was thinking though, couldn't I put a second Y connector above the one that is there but turn in the other direction to send overflow back to the drainpipe? So downspout would go all the way to the ground.... at the top, water would be diverted into 2" pipe into barrel, once its full water would go up to second Y connector and go into drainpipe and flow out to ground.
How do you retrieve water evenly from all barrels?
You had me at Home Depot SKU number.
It's pretty simple if you want to use up the space to get more water in the barrels make are step system, the main tank thats getting the water from the gutters should be the highest and the last barrel should be the lowest and the barrels in between should go down like are step so each barrel is lower the other, doing it this way also lets you run are pipe from the top of the barrel which lets you fill up that gap instead of having the pipes on the side.
I have this system on mine and works great.
has worked just fine thus far, I am happy to say that all barrels quickly fill up with every rain. time to add more
How do you screen against mosquitoes? I understand then inlet and outlet need screening. I plan to use a diverter. If I put screening between the diverter and the pipe to the barrel, will it still fit tightly together enough? Ditto on the final overflow on the last barrel.
you can use an inline water hose connect pump after the spigot you can find them from $50-150
Depends on how you want to it. If you only have one barrel, a pump with a hose will do it, if you have multiple barrels, you'll need to drill one hole in each barrel and you can hook them up to a manifold system so that they all feed one valve. Information cupboard com shows a nice way to do it, and the parts to do it with, so that you don't need to use caulk to seal the holes. Or you can put one faucet per barrel, up to you how you want to do it.
Hi, how do you adapt the rain spouting into barrels ? This is my first attempt at this. thank you so much
You realize that on the last end barrel, you should just run the exit pipe to the ground for overflow instead of using an upturned elbow, right? The water level will stabilize at the bottom of each barrel "t," and you won't have so much splash from water exiting the pipe when hitting the ground. Other than that, love your system, and will be adding a second barrel to my system using your system to connect it. I don't like drilling several holes in barrels either.
What is the part shown around 5:55 that you put at the very end of the barrel chain? What is it called to locate it in a store? SKU? And how do you connect a overflow pipe to it?
only down side to the top feed connectors is that each barrel requires it's own spout. if one were the invert the barrels you cold design one point in one point out.
Excellent job.
absolutely, you dont need to use glue, they work just fine with out it
That is some great info, thanks for sharing!
you can buy and inexpensive pump to connect to your hose or an inexpensive submersible pump.that will give you a city like pressure
WOW!!!!!! YOU DID A VERY EXCELLENT JOB! I AM RUNNING TO DO MINE!!!!!! GRACIAS AMIGO ;O)
won't this need a spigot on every barrel though? that's another $10 and having to switch around hoses when each is empty?.
i'm trying a similar setup but with the barrels upside-down so pipe is beneath and all barrels fill together. small hole above for air to escape, and 1 spigot of a central tee (you have to buy some reducers to get down to 3/4 drip tube or garden hose adapter)
Wonderful! I have started buying materials. One question: When all barrels are full, can the extra water go down a downspout? In the video, it seems to overflow the open elbow at the end of the system.
the spikets at the bottom how did you attach them and maintain water tight seal
with the taps at the bottom join them with your garden hose together, by rights you should get better pressure also out of the hose
Cool video! But I have never seen pvc for such a low price, such as you are saying; especially at that width. But I do live in NJ, where prices of goods are above average. Would absolutely love to come across cheap pvc! Pvc ball valves and unions at that width cost almost 10 bucks each, where I live.
adapt the rain spouting into barrels ? I dont understand can you restate the question
Yeah we had to order ours online but they arent that expensive pending on how many you need and the size of pvc that you want to use. Im sure you could get away with connecting the barrels with 1" pvc which would only cost $2.50 each, or $5 for 2". I guess it really just all depends on how much you want to spend and how easy you want to make your build on yourself. Either way, great video! Definitely some useful information!
Consider spending a couple of bucks and get bulk head fittings for mounting spigots. Silicone caulk will leach nasty chemicals into the water. And 1/4 turn ball valves are much better than garden faucets as the have larger holes for the water to flow out.
Got the barrels at the car wash?
So I understand your video here but you didn't say how many hose bibs you used to get the garden hose connected ???
One barrel or all of them...Would it work off of one barrel? I'm using 3 barrels in my system...
James
Great project, really nice! Thanks!!!
Great job, I will copy, thanks.
Just the video I needed. thanks.
Thanks for the video. very helpful!
this sounds very cool i would like to do this but how did you find a car wash and talk to them about buying the barrels i live in Mississippi where you live you may have just got lucky and found a cool guy to sell you the barrels anyway thanks for this cool video i have a few barrels and even a 300 gallon plastic tank but they all had deadly chemicals in them would you know a good way to clean them out? or is it hopeless to clean them just need new barrels i want to use the tanks for drinking water
What kind of diverter did you use on your downspout?
so im intrested in how you get the water out of the barrels cause i like your method but i dont really want to drill alot of holes in the barrel thanks :)
10 gallons of water, we have a debris screen on the gutters and the roof washer is just for fine partcles.
you do not need an air vent in each barrel but only in the last one. the water filling up in the barrels will push the air through the pipes into the last one and then out that vent.
Rain barrels are like $60 in CA
Thanks for sharing God bless your heart....
She is asking how you get the square rain gutter into a circle pipe. Did you use an adaptor?
Did you glue the pipes together with PVC cement eventually?
Brilliant. Thanks so much.
where are you getting your barrels and so cheap ? And their right clear barrels allow the sun to grow the algae. you could paint them.
how to get the water out?
Is this system turned upside down with the pvc on the bottom?
You should paint all the white barrels so that no light can penetrate and nothing will begin growing in the water.
Does your water run over your asphalt roof? Do you use that water for vegetables or drinking?
what about pressure, when i hook up the garden hose it practically trickles out, Im really dissappointed!
Hey man, thanks for the ideas. If you wanted to create pressure, you commented to someone that you could use a cheap pump to connect to your hose. Is this a pump that would go after the spigot coming out of the bottom of the barrels, but before the hose? And do you have an example of a brand or something? Thanks again.
A man that owned a car wash decided rain water collection would be more eco friendly and cut down on his water bill. He was fined $5000.00. In the US, land with aquifers are being purchased at an an alarming rate, by billionaires. Water is now a commodity.
Is the barrel food grade?
Nice advised, Thanks.
Do you sell and ship the 5$ rain barrels?
Thanks for sharing!!!
awesome dude! best i've seen:) thanks
Ok, have you ever looked in that first barrel to check for mud at the bottom?
Nice video, thanks.
Love it!! Thanks a lot!!
where can i get a cube tank
Can you show your first flush pipe construction?
no since they are not pressurized it makes it much easier to clean
what happened to the sound after 2:55?
great stuff but cant hear it
do u know if they still are for sale
what type of filter are you using? rain water from roof here you would have what ever is on the roof washed in with the water plus what ever pollution in the rain as well. can you show or make a video on what type filtering should be used?
rzimmer1 leaf & twig guard over the rain gutters, then a roof washer set up in this video ruclips.net/video/j1xtuHEYaLo/видео.html time - 3 05 - 3 30 cleans all debris off roof and provides clean rain water each time. just make sure to drain roof washer after each rain. Hope this helps
thank you for quick reply and answering the questions i had. great videos thanks for sharing.
Ok but what about the Gutter how does it receive water???
Rico NextLevel ruclips.net/video/j1xtuHEYaLo/видео.html time - 3 05 - 3 30
awesome!
if the barrels were connected at the very bottom then they would all fill up at exactly the same rate and when you need the water back, the barrels will all empty at the exact same rate...this is equilibrium....powered by gravity....all you have to do is turn your setup upside down.....and filter everything that goes in ONE barrel that will feed the rest...
Not entirely true... The water cannot go in the barrel unless the air can get out. If the barrels are inverted, since water is heaver than air you would need a relief hole in the top of every barrel in order to fill the barrels. Otherwise, you will have a pipe full of water and barrels full of air.
well...get to work!
+Todd Jones with the pipes on the top and not drilling the barrel, there is no worry about leaks, which he had on the other system.
This is great
Any idea how much water your first flush holds? I'm guessing that if you took that amount of water up on your roof and tried to flush it clean you would find that it doesn't wash off much of the dirt and debris off the roof and down the gutters.
thouroghly rinse untill there are no more suds. the content label must say bioderadable or not have hazard labels for toxic chemicals on them. then they are safe after thourogh rinsing
silicone caulk, screwing into tight seal, using rubber washer - you decide
You could start a siphon with hose between barrels from the top and do for each new barrel. It will keep water in each barrel the same depth, , so as the first fills all subsequent barrels will have the same depth and no leaking.
In Colorado it is against the law for us to collect rainwater [stupid law]. A builder wanted to have an area catch basin use all rainwater to water area lawns, they would not allow it. We have had a drought for a few years and now in burn areas flooding.
cool! thanks!
that was great info!
Why not put your first rain barrel up higher than the rest and the pressure will fill the rest to the top with proper placement of plumbing and only leave the last barrel open for an air vent.
Hey Greencabbie! Great video overall! Something has happened to your audio, is there any possibility that you can re-upload it?
Thank you for including stock numbers for the connectors....few ever do that here on RUclips. But the numbers are in the missing audio! :-)
Again, good job!
How can you get the barrels for that price from a car wash ?
expensive though and hard to find at local retailers, mostly have to get online, they dont carry at home depot or lowes. Thus defeating the $5 rainbarrel
The size of the drains aren't actually made for the amount of rain usually, they are that size to allow the debris, leaves, blossom petals, bird crap, twigs, etc., to flow freely through without getting stuck and causing a blockage.
the sound just dropped at about that time for me. I'd like to hear the rest as well.
why don't you put the connections between the barrels at the BOTTOM so that they would all fill up at the same time? Then the last one would have an overflow at the top.
used barrel from the car wash=genious
You can get away with using schedule 10 PVC on this since there's no pressure on the system. It's cheaper. Just a suggestion...
Just subscribed to your wonderful knowledge bank. I have to ask (and I know others must have) .....2$ Really? How? I live in the pacific northwest and the cheapest I can find these barrels is about 75 bucks! Ouch!.
Great! I must live in a dirtier neighborhood than you. When I checked mine I had a layer of slimy sludge
in the bottom of my first barrel.
Time to vote that law out, wouldn't you say?
not everywhere
My neighbor does this, but I think that he's just raising mosquitos! Weird. We call him Dr. No!!
no mud or algee just clean water
grey water is used water from the house this is rain water. We use it to water plant but if you had the right type of filtration ie uv, & 3 stage carbon or reverse osmosis, berkey you could use this as drinking water
if the entry hole is drilled properly yo shouldn't need anything else