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Hose pipe ban creates run on water butts ..
geoff shep - 10/4/12 at 08:50 PM

Wow - I know water butts are all the rage, but surely not this much!

LARGE 210 LTR WATER TANK TUB BUTT , LID ,TAP & STAND | eBay

But you do get a free diverter so that's OK. It would be cheaper to be fined!

Andybarbet - 10/4/12 at 09:05 PM

WOW it would be cheaper to water your plants & wash your car with Evian

foskid - 10/4/12 at 09:46 PM

greedy bar stewards, trying to profiteer like that, those water butts should be around the 50-60 squid mark. Mind you it wouldn't be so bad if they primed with unleaded on delivery

But I expect there will still be some fools who will cough up.

morcus - 10/4/12 at 09:46 PM

Maybe it does something normal water butts don't do? I saw tesco were selling space saving one's when I went in for milk earlier for about £20.

I've never really got water butts, maybe it's because I don't 'garden' but I've got plumbing so why fill up a barrel with dirty rainwater (It's all run off the dirty roof and drains, I imagine rain is quite clean before that point).

Peteff - 10/4/12 at 10:08 PM

It's to stop people bidding on them as they have none left but don't want to pull the advert as they will have to pay to relist so they just edit the price to something really ridiculous. Plus if we all have water butts and catch the rain before it goes back into the water table will it increase the drought problem ? (only kidding)

Chippy - 10/4/12 at 10:31 PM

Don't foreget this though "FREE MARLEY RAIN DIVERTER WITH EACH WATER BUTT" makes all the diference. I guess that they are out of stock and just bunged the price up to a stupid level untill they get more in. Cheers Ray

Andi - 10/4/12 at 10:35 PM

And 21 have been sold so far

slingshot2000 - 10/4/12 at 11:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Andi
And 21 have been sold so far


That equates to;
they only had the foresight to order 20 for stock, and anyone else who orders will have to wait until 21 arrives from China



(and anyone else stupid enough to order now)

[Edited on 10/4/12 by slingshot2000]

Ivan - 11/4/12 at 06:09 AM

Based on 30 years of water engineering water butts are the biggest waste of money around and do not contribute significantly to water saving unless you have a catchment big enough to fill a butt of say 10kl.

If all the money going towards the purchase of the butts was put together hundreds of worthwhile catchment dams could be built.

Not only that but poorly managed butts are ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes leading to whole new set of problems.

So Bah Humbug

Daddylonglegs - 11/4/12 at 06:24 AM

Be cheaper to use the hosepipe, it's only £1000 fine!

kipper - 11/4/12 at 07:04 AM

why don't they dilute the water say 50/50 ,problem halved.
Denis.

jabs - 11/4/12 at 07:10 AM

He sold one for £49 which assume is normal price, then appears to have upped price to £159 assume to stop people buying and he sold one at that price - lol

jossey - 11/4/12 at 07:48 AM

Not many people know this but blue badge disabed users can use the hose pipe when there is a ban. How mad is that.

Thanks

quinnj3 - 11/4/12 at 08:51 AM

Same seller sold 3 x 100L slimline water butts with all the accessories for £93.24. Simple maths suggests you spend £93.24 and get 300L of water storage. A small saving of around 1200%

[Edited on 11/4/12 by quinnj3]

wilkingj - 11/4/12 at 10:04 AM

quote:
Originally posted by kipper
why don't they dilute the water say 50/50 ,problem halved.
Denis.

I usually do... I dilute it with 50% whiskey. But only with the cheap blended stuff. You cant waste good Scotch by contaminating it with water, only the cheap stuff

mcerd1 - 11/4/12 at 11:36 AM

quote:
Originally posted by wilkingj
quote:
Originally posted by kipper
why don't they dilute the water say 50/50 ,problem halved.
Denis.

I usually do... I dilute it with 50% whiskey. But only with the cheap blended stuff. You cant waste good Scotch by contaminating it with water, only the cheap stuff


I'm happy to inform you that there will be no shortage of water for Whisky production... I was on Islay last weekend and we got more rain in 4 days than the south east gets in a hundred years !






(btw its 'Whisky' not 'Whiskey' unless your talking about Irish stuff and only americans call it Scotch )

coyoteboy - 11/4/12 at 12:55 PM

quote:
I've never really got water butts, maybe it's because I don't 'garden' but I've got plumbing so why fill up a barrel with dirty rainwater (It's all run off the dirty roof and drains, I imagine rain is quite clean before that point).


I've just installed a 250 litre water tank that came out of the loft because my greenhouse is about 20m from the nearest water pipe and I can't be bothered running an armoured pipe out that far. Plus if I had a water meter it'd be fairly pricey. As it is the rain water is really good for plants who don't mind a bit of dirt and once the water has settled in the butt it's fairly clean and usable for loads of things inc washing the car.

[Edited on 11/4/12 by coyoteboy]

morcus - 11/4/12 at 02:45 PM

That sort of makes sense. I imagine yours actually fills up quite well as I remember it raining alot when I lived in Glasgow, whereas here, I'm living on a semi arid marsh so If I got one it wouldn't have much water in.

The other thing I don't get, what is the point of a hosepipe ban if we're still alowed to use as much water as we want, it just can't come out of a hose or a sprinkler? And how come I can still use the car wash at tesco but I'm not allowed to use a pressure washer at home?