I’m just about to embark on fitting guttering to both sides of our allotment shed, into a huge water container. It’s quite scary trying to work out bends and levels, but your video has been an amazing help, I couldn’t have started it without it. Thank you so much. I’m off to subscribe, then onto buying the parts I need. 👍🏻👍🏻
l found this information very helpful. I want to put some gutting on one side of my shed straight into my pond . After watching this video I feel it is within my capabilities. A big thank you.
Great video. My wooden shed wall was getting soaked before I put up guttering. Dry as a bone now. Tip: keep the lid loose, but weighed down with a brick so cats can't fall in. Then you can dip a watering can in, rather than wait ages for the little tap to fill your watering can. I've also seen water butts set lower into a hole in the ground so you don't have to lift heavy watering cans up high - great if you have limited mobility or arm strength. If you are not using the tap, you can discard the plastic base altogether and set the butt on the ground if you are dipping.
Put some shed guttering up for under about £15.Some second hand stuff, 2-3 new bits and some scraps not needed anymore on the bungalow, (guttering is a mix of black and white parts) the downs are white ,the horizontal is black. 😁 I have the water through the white pipe, leading directly into the top of the butt. Waiting to see how It'll be , I only installed it a month ago.
Thank you AB, this was very informative. I'd like to add, though, that there shouldn't be a "downward fall" from the diverter to the water butt if you want to avoid overflow. The bottom of the diverter should be level with the inlet to the water butt because if the diverter is positioned higher than the butt inlet, the butt will overflow with rain water instead of being diverted down the downpipe to a drain. If the diverter is positioned lower than the butt inlet, the butt will not fill at all, and instead just flow down the downpipe into the drain. Looking at your video here, the diverter appears to be higher than the water butt inlet, and thus the butt will overflow - unless, like me, this is intentional because I prefer to chain multiple water butts using cheap connector kits.
Thanks for the comment, and well spotted! To explain my set up, I keep the water butt diverter below the top level of the water butt. That way, water pressure stops the water butt overflowing. I find a slight downward fall from the diverter to the butt means the water flows more quickly and helps avoid the connecting hose getting blocked.
Don't think that's correct. It's the top of the diverter overflow that needs to be slightly below the top of the water butt (i.e. the very top rather than the top of the inlet). It's fine to have a downward fall from diverter to waterbutt. Once the waterbutt is full the water will "back fill" the diverter pipe and then eventually all new rainwater will go straight down the main drain pipe. In this video the waterbutt inlet appears to be several inches below the top of the waterbutt so there's some wiggle room to set this up easily.
Great Video mate clearly explained and very informative thank you for sharing. this is meant as a constructive comment and not as a criticism but, I Have to say at times i thought the background music was a little too loud.
Good video, thanks. It looks like 4inch guttering you're using! Is that best the best size when having multiple water butt's?.. my new shed is slightly smaller than yours and will fit just a small water butt. I'm thinking of using 3inch miniflo guttering, would this be adequate or is it best to go with the 4inch? Thanks again..
Very interesting video. I was wondering however why you chose to connect the two gutters to one downpipe. It saves the cost of an extra diverter but this will be more than offset by the extra pipe and bends and joints. Diverters do not divert 100 % of the rain to the water butt, especially in a heavy downpour so 2 diverters would be more efficient than a single one.
Thank you very much for your comment. I like your suggestion to not join the gutters to a single down pipe to maximise water capture. I think that would make a difference, especially in relative dry areas that do not receive much rain.
Hi, great video. At 3.22 you show what appears to be a blanking cap for the downpipe. This looks exactly what I need. I've just bought a slimline butt for the allotment shed but the only pipework supplied is 25mm corrugated (I have 68mm pipe leading dow from the gutter. My options are to either try and find a reducing attachment or blank the 68mm pipe off and run the hose from that using the attachment in your vid. Where did you get it?(Google searched have proven fruitless)
Very informative video and clear instructions thank you! I am attempting to install guttering and a water butt around my flat roof garage, although I'm not sure how to drain the excess from the down pipe once the water butt is full. To do what you did may be an option although I'm concerned it would lead to damp ingress into the garage. Any ideas?
Thank you for the feedback. A rainwater diverter should divert water back down the drain pipe once the water butt is full. Where it goes from there depends on what is around the garage at ground level. Options like diverting to a soakaway, perforated pipe, or channel drain.
Very interesting and informative video. I am shortly going to emulate your guttering project on our new shed , but could you tell me what size guttering you used. Thank you.
Brilliant video, but - Help please ! I have two butts connected to my shed guttering but there is no downpipe into a drain or soakaway. What can i do if the butts are full? At the moment I just fill watering cans and empty the cans down a drain that does go into a soakaway. The drain is opposite the shed, but I can't lift the setts and tarmac to put a pipe across to the drain. Ok - this should have been done when the setts and tarmac were laid, but the guys who did it didn't do it. They went bankrupt - surprise, surprise. Any ideas that don't involve major earthworks would be most welcome. Thank you.
Thank you very much for your comment. My shed is at the back of the garden, which is also not near a drain. The water butts stand on gravel, and when full, the water will flow out of the top (there is an overflow outlet) and onto the gravel where it naturally soaks into the ground. This works okay for my relatively small shed. For a shed with a large roof, or if the water butts are standing on concrete or a patio, and the excess water is making it dirty, one option would be to connect an overflow pipe to the overflow outlet, and channel away to a porous area (grass or bed) with perforated pipe to let the water out gradually, or into a soakaway, or perhaps behind the shed (as long as the shed is raised a little off the ground).
i used the usual house guttering on the shed as I had some left over (I believe this is 112mm) - it did not need to be this size as the roof of the shed is not large enough to need guttering capable of handling such a large amount of water. i think the other size is 76mm, and is a little cheaper to buy, but in my experience a little more difficult to find in shops…
Hi great video thank you, but I need an answer I can't seem to find anywhere. I've just bought a water butt for the first time and we're getting a new shed so will fit it from there. The trouble is, where the shed will be (in our v.small garden in the hottest part of the garden)! It really gets very hot in that corner when the weather is at its hottest. Won't the water almost boil in the butt? It's a smaller 100 ltr one. I just think the water might turn foul in the hot weather, in full afternoon sun. Can you answer my question?
Thank you very much for the feedback. Your question is really one for a scientist, and that is not me! What I do is treat my water butt water as good for plants only. My water butts are constantly being emptied for watering purposes. I don't like leaving water standing in water butts unused for long periods of time. There are chemical treatments available for water butts too.
If your water boils you have more problems than watering your garden! Water boils at 100 degrees C, the highest temperature recorded in England to date is about 40 degrees C. It is very unlikely the water in the butt will reach anything like that temperature even in full sun and most gardeners usually avoid watering their plants in full sun anyway.
Really helpful, thank you! I love this video because it goes straight to the job requirement...no fuss, just really clear, useful information!
thank you very much for your comment, much appreciated.
I’m just about to embark on fitting guttering to both sides of our allotment shed, into a huge water container. It’s quite scary trying to work out bends and levels, but your video has been an amazing help, I couldn’t have started it without it. Thank you so much. I’m off to subscribe, then onto buying the parts I need. 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for explaining all the parts! Makes it much easier to locate and purchase them.
Great video. Very clear to follow. Thanks!
Good video. I have a shed with a sloping roof so water dripping and causing seeping to the floor. Will give this a go!
Many thanks for this video. Very helpful and clearly explained.
Thank you for your video it has helped me put up some guttering on my shed.
Thank you for letting me know. It’s good to know the video helped!
Best guttering tutorial on here. Thank you
l found this information very helpful. I want to put some gutting on one side of my shed straight into my pond . After watching this video I feel it is within my capabilities. A big thank you.
Great video. My wooden shed wall was getting soaked before I put up guttering. Dry as a bone now. Tip: keep the lid loose, but weighed down with a brick so cats can't fall in. Then you can dip a watering can in, rather than wait ages for the little tap to fill your watering can. I've also seen water butts set lower into a hole in the ground so you don't have to lift heavy watering cans up high - great if you have limited mobility or arm strength. If you are not using the tap, you can discard the plastic base altogether and set the butt on the ground if you are dipping.
Thank you for sharing your ideas!
Put some shed guttering up for under about £15.Some second hand stuff, 2-3 new bits and some scraps not needed anymore on the bungalow, (guttering is a mix of black and white parts) the downs are white ,the horizontal is black. 😁
I have the water through the white pipe, leading directly into the top of the butt. Waiting to see how It'll be , I only installed it a month ago.
I loved the music! Excellent video. Thank you.
Brilliant video , helped me for my project
Very useful video; well explained. But please reduce the music. I feel confident with my upcoming shed guttering project.
Thank you AB, this was very informative. I'd like to add, though, that there shouldn't be a "downward fall" from the diverter to the water butt if you want to avoid overflow. The bottom of the diverter should be level with the inlet to the water butt because if the diverter is positioned higher than the butt inlet, the butt will overflow with rain water instead of being diverted down the downpipe to a drain. If the diverter is positioned lower than the butt inlet, the butt will not fill at all, and instead just flow down the downpipe into the drain. Looking at your video here, the diverter appears to be higher than the water butt inlet, and thus the butt will overflow - unless, like me, this is intentional because I prefer to chain multiple water butts using cheap connector kits.
Thanks for the comment, and well spotted! To explain my set up, I keep the water butt diverter below the top level of the water butt. That way, water pressure stops the water butt overflowing. I find a slight downward fall from the diverter to the butt means the water flows more quickly and helps avoid the connecting hose getting blocked.
@@AllotmentBook Uh? I think we should leave it there ;)
Don't think that's correct. It's the top of the diverter overflow that needs to be slightly below the top of the water butt (i.e. the very top rather than the top of the inlet). It's fine to have a downward fall from diverter to waterbutt. Once the waterbutt is full the water will "back fill" the diverter pipe and then eventually all new rainwater will go straight down the main drain pipe.
In this video the waterbutt inlet appears to be several inches below the top of the waterbutt so there's some wiggle room to set this up easily.
Great Video mate clearly explained and very informative thank you for sharing.
this is meant as a constructive comment and not as a criticism but, I Have to say at times i thought the background music was a little too loud.
Great video. Lots of useful info in under 5 mins. Thanks.
Thank you very much for the feedback. Much appreciated.
This was really helpful, thank you
Thank you for posting this tutorial
Great help with my new shed and water butt project. Will try the double roof capture, too.
Great video mate many thanks
Smashing video. Very clear. Thank you! 🙂
Thank you very much for your comment. Much appreciated.
Very simple and clear - thank you
Nice, clear instructions. Thank you.
Really useful video, thank you for uploading. Love the music! 👍🏼
thank you!
Good video, thanks. It looks like 4inch guttering you're using! Is that best the best size when having multiple water butt's?.. my new shed is slightly smaller than yours and will fit just a small water butt. I'm thinking of using 3inch miniflo guttering, would this be adequate or is it best to go with the 4inch? Thanks again..
Very interesting video. I was wondering however why you chose to connect the two gutters to one downpipe. It saves the cost of an extra diverter but this will be more than offset by the extra pipe and bends and joints. Diverters do not divert 100 % of the rain to the water butt, especially in a heavy downpour so 2 diverters would be more efficient than a single one.
Thank you very much for your comment. I like your suggestion to not join the gutters to a single down pipe to maximise water capture. I think that would make a difference, especially in relative dry areas that do not receive much rain.
Hi, great video. At 3.22 you show what appears to be a blanking cap for the downpipe. This looks exactly what I need. I've just bought a slimline butt for the allotment shed but the only pipework supplied is 25mm corrugated (I have 68mm pipe leading dow from the gutter. My options are to either try and find a reducing attachment or blank the 68mm pipe off and run the hose from that using the attachment in your vid. Where did you get it?(Google searched have proven fruitless)
Very helpful, many thanks for posting this video.
What are these types of gutters called?? They are EXACTLY what I am looking for.
Great video thanks
These types of gutters aren't available in America, are they? I can't find them. This looks so easy compared to what we have available. :(
Excellent,clear instructions
Very informative video and clear instructions thank you! I am attempting to install guttering and a water butt around my flat roof garage, although I'm not sure how to drain the excess from the down pipe once the water butt is full. To do what you did may be an option although I'm concerned it would lead to damp ingress into the garage. Any ideas?
Thank you for the feedback. A rainwater diverter should divert water back down the drain pipe once the water butt is full. Where it goes from there depends on what is around the garage at ground level. Options like diverting to a soakaway, perforated pipe, or channel drain.
Thank you, just what I needed 😎
Thanks - just what I needed.
Very interesting and informative video. I am shortly going to emulate your guttering project on our new shed , but could you tell me what size guttering you used. Thank you.
I used the same size guttering as you find on a normal house, but there is also smaller guttering for sheds. Both would work fine.
Brilliant video, but - Help please ! I have two butts connected to my shed guttering but there is no downpipe into a drain or soakaway. What can i do if the butts are full? At the moment I just fill watering cans and empty the cans down a drain that does go into a soakaway. The drain is opposite the shed, but I can't lift the setts and tarmac to put a pipe across to the drain. Ok - this should have been done when the setts and tarmac were laid, but the guys who did it didn't do it. They went bankrupt - surprise, surprise. Any ideas that don't involve major earthworks would be most welcome. Thank you.
Thank you very much for your comment. My shed is at the back of the garden, which is also not near a drain. The water butts stand on gravel, and when full, the water will flow out of the top (there is an overflow outlet) and onto the gravel where it naturally soaks into the ground. This works okay for my relatively small shed. For a shed with a large roof, or if the water butts are standing on concrete or a patio, and the excess water is making it dirty, one option would be to connect an overflow pipe to the overflow outlet, and channel away to a porous area (grass or bed) with perforated pipe to let the water out gradually, or into a soakaway, or perhaps behind the shed (as long as the shed is raised a little off the ground).
very helpful. Thanks
thank you very much for your comment
So helpful thank you!
Sorry for the silly question but can you remember the dimensions of this guttering? I know this video was a while ago but thought I'd ask
i used the usual house guttering on the shed as I had some left over (I believe this is 112mm) - it did not need to be this size as the roof of the shed is not large enough to need guttering capable of handling such a large amount of water. i think the other size is 76mm, and is a little cheaper to buy, but in my experience a little more difficult to find in shops…
Very helpful, thanks!
Hi great video thank you, but I need an answer I can't seem to find anywhere. I've just bought a water butt for the first time and we're getting a new shed so will fit it from there. The trouble is, where the shed will be (in our v.small garden in the hottest part of the garden)! It really gets very hot in that corner when the weather is at its hottest. Won't the water almost boil in the butt? It's a smaller 100 ltr one. I just think the water might turn foul in the hot weather, in full afternoon sun. Can you answer my question?
Thank you very much for the feedback. Your question is really one for a scientist, and that is not me! What I do is treat my water butt water as good for plants only. My water butts are constantly being emptied for watering purposes. I don't like leaving water standing in water butts unused for long periods of time. There are chemical treatments available for water butts too.
If your water boils you have more problems than watering your garden! Water boils at 100 degrees C, the highest temperature recorded in England to date is about 40 degrees C. It is very unlikely the water in the butt will reach anything like that temperature even in full sun and most gardeners usually avoid watering their plants in full sun anyway.
Fantastic
Who sells this style of rain gutter in USA?
Answer??
Very informative, thanks
Thank you very much for taking the time to leave a comment.
Lovely video update. Thanks a lot for sharing! Liked and subscribed! By the way do you keep chickens also?
this is perfect!!!