House Gutter Rainbarrel

Gardening stores sell 55 to 75 gallon plastic rain barrels complete with leaf screens and spouts for 50 to 250.

House gutter rainbarrel.

A 55 gallon plastic drum with an intake hole cut in the top will work well. The fittings are precisely moulded to fit closely on the standard downspout. For pricing and availability. Then you let gravity do the work.

Most homes direct water into the barrel with gutters and downspouts but even homes without gutters can use a rain barrel. By creating several rain barrels you can save enough water to help you get through the hot and dry summer months. Creating a drainage hole toward the top of the barrel will enable overflow water to escape. A rain barrel is a container that collects runoff from your home s gutter system connecting to the downspout with a rain diverter or fitting under a modified downspout.

The storage tank or cistern can be made from almost any material even a clean recycled metal drum. A rain fall of half an inch filled my rain barrel to overflowing. A spigot or hose connector lets you drain the water for use around your landscape. Amerimax 5 5 in x 10 in brown k style gutter end with drop.

1 walk around your house during the next rain and observe the water. My own rain barrel is around the back of the house. You just have to find one of those troughs where two parts of the roof come together and water pours out whenever it rains. Rain barrels provide an alternative to using municipal water or well water for irrigation.

The amount of water you can collect is a rain barrel depends on how much rainfall you get and the size of your roof. Amerimax 6 in x 120 in white k style gutter. For pricing and availability. The rain barrel will need to be located near a down spout from your rain gutter if you want to get water from a downspout.

To estimate how much rainwater you can collect find out how many inches of rain your area gets in an average month and multiple that by 0 6. One inch of rainfall over one square foot gives you about 0 6 gallons of water. If you don t have downspouts you can often still use a rain barrel. Wooden barrels have a nostalgic charm but they re hard to come by and expensive.

The eco barrel allows you to explore all the eco barrel allows you to explore all the opportunities that fresh soft and free rainwater have to offer with the rts home accents 50 gal. Made with 100 recycled plastic our authentic oak barrel texture is molded into each barrel and will not fade rot or risk insect infestation. For a rain barrel you need nothing more than a standard spigot or short length of hose installed near the bottom of the barrel with an on off valve.