Water butt without a downpipe

[mikeyr]

Want to put a waterbutt or two under our extension to pick up water for the back garden. However, we don't have a down pipe on our property (runs into neighbours extension drainage system instead.

If I put a downpipe straight into the water butt I assume I'm going to end up with moss and all other cack in the water butt - plus an issue with it overflowing in heavy rain and having nowhere to go.

Can't use a diverter on a "proper" downpipe as the downpipe will just head to the ground - any excess water will be flooding our garden!

Is there a solution? Can you get switchable downpipes - e.g. a downpipe I can shut when the water butt gets full?

[freecar]

mikeyr said:

Want to put a waterbutt or two under our extension to pick up water for the back garden. However, we don't have a down pipe on our property (runs into neighbours extension drainage system instead.

If I put a downpipe straight into the water butt I assume I'm going to end up with moss and all other cack in the water butt - plus an issue with it overflowing in heavy rain and having nowhere to go.

Can't use a diverter on a "proper" downpipe as the downpipe will just head to the ground - any excess water will be flooding our garden!

Is there a solution? Can you get switchable downpipes - e.g. a downpipe I can shut when the water butt gets full?

I'm afraid you're screwed!

Where do your gutters currently go? Along the back of your house and down into a neighbours downpipe?

Where does the join for the gutterning occur? Could you put a small piece of downpip onto it to use a diverter kit then return the excess to the original place through your neighbours' drainage system?

[mik.ross]

What you need is a water but with an overflow pipe that is a bigger diameter than the filling pipe. The overflow pipe should be run where the "filling" pipe would usually run to.

HTH

[Simpo Two]

Any of this lot OK?

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