I had an idea awhile back that if I could collect some of the water from the gutter on our house, I could use it to water plants and stuff. Not only would this water be natural (not full of crap like our tap water) it would be free.
Well, I got a 55 gallon plastic barrel for free and about a week ago routed one of the gutter downspouts into it to see what happens. Much to my surprise the barrel was full after a week!
This is looking very promising!
I did have to dump it out because the barrel use to be full of soap, and I need to try to rinse it out, but I did that, and hooked it up the day before yesterday. I checked the water level again yesterday and it was already half way full! It really hasn't been raining that much either, and also my gutters are in need of being cleaned out.
So now I am going to work on setting up an overflow tube that dumps the excess water back into the original downspout. I also want to put some sort of faucet toward the bottom for filling containers that will be used to water stuff.
All in all it is looking very promising. I will probably need a couple more barrels considering how much water I am getting, but it will be very nice when I get it all figured out.
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