Sankey 1229 150L Beehive Water Butt

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Whatever your garden's style, whether you have a simple and contemporary planting scheme or a wild and bohemian country cottage style patch, you will find a water butt that will look fantastic while it keeps your plants happy too. It’s sleek enough to sit inconspicuously in the corner of small gardens, yet it’s also slim enough to be lined up in a row of connected water butts to contribute to a larger water storage system. On the plus side, this water butt comes with its tap already connected (not the case for most water butts), which saves a couple of minutes.

The tap is a bit loose and therefore leaks (no surprise I think all of the water butts I’ve ever owned have). It does feel quite shaky when empty, so I poured a bucket of water in as soon as I was done setting it up, which helped to hold it in place until the rain took over. However, this plastic water butt does come with the necessary indents that show you where to drill new holes if you would like to connect multiple water butts together. By signing up you agree to Garden Street using your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.By collecting rainwater to water your lawn and plants will help you to save on your water bills whilst being eco-friendly to the environment too. The lid has a simple lock mechanism which is handy as some of my earlier water butt purchases didn’t and have blown off in the past. Get a Mediterranean feel to your gardain with this Cascata Clay Effect Water Butt which also doubles as a planter.

Don’t worry – installing a water butt is absolutely doable even for the least DIY active of us and I’ll take you through step by step. Even when empty, it doesn’t rock about in the wind, and there’s definitely no moving it once it starts to fill.I was not pleased as I tried to stop the constant squirting/pouring of water in the pitch black of night! Made from recycled plastic and guaranteed for 10 years, it is currently the most popular water butt to be offered by the local water companies that offer them. Instead, it acts as a decorative focal point – you could even turn the lid upside down and grow flowers in it.

It’s easy to see why slimline water butts are so popular, and the Charles Bentley 100l Slimline Water Butt Set is one of the bestselling models out there.Being 210 litres though, I’d be putting this on a slab or solid surface, freshly dug soil is definitely a no-no. Remember silicone takes a while to set, plumbers putty is effective faster but if it does leak, you’ll need to restart the process so give it some time if you can as emptying a water butt full of rain water is annoying to say the least!