Water Butts
Posted: Mon 26 June, 2006 Filed under: Customer Services, Domestic, General, Green 2 Comments »A while ago, we bought a couple of water butts, in order to save some rainwater for the garden, and all that jazz. (In fact, we now have three water butts, including one that was getting used (and probably will again) for “grey water” – ie washing-up water etc.)
Anyway, out of the three we’ve got, only one has a tap that doesn’t leak. Turns out, two of them were supplied without all the parts for the taps, so they didn’t seal properly – we ended up fixing it with silicone sealant, but all the same, on one it still drips.
Eventually I got round to emailing Sankey, the people who made the butts in the first place, and asked about getting a couple of the missing nuts for the taps.
I got an email today (which had been filtered into “junk mail” because of the subject line – “Butt Taps”) saying they’re going to send out the spare parts. Woo, and indeed Yay.
Do you actually use all that water? Grey water will produce a hell of a lot of water, especially if you’ve got ur washing machine and sink feeding the waterbutt……..you’ll have to be careful what u use too, ecover is a decent biodegradable brand but ya can’t use bleach to clean ur sink (even clothes bleach) or additives like vanish if ur using it for ur plants, that’s what I found anyway.
Just experienced the exact same problem. Brand new water butt from Elite Greenhouse and tap leaked as not stong enough for the job. Washers would have helped! Very frustrating. Bought a tube of sealant which did not fix the problem.