If where you want the water is the same level or lower than the front butt, then you could just put a butt where you want the water, and connect a hose between the base of both butts.
I've been pleasantly surprised at the amount of water that is collected from my shed roof. I only put the butt in earlier this year but it is doing a great job
If where you want the water is the same level or lower than the front butt, then you could just put a butt where you want the water, and connect a hose between the base of both butts.
Yes but that’s not feasible over fifty meters and around the house, across drives and patios etc.
Jo, how big is your garden? I put a post on here, possibly 2018 we didn't have any rain for 3 months, wanting some kind of mobile water truck, like the type used by garden centres. We have an eight of acre,but it's divided into areas,with arches, beds.we have 6 butts. Two bungalow to conservatory,with diverter,one shed,one, summer house,2 green house,in veg plot, watering can by each.Have been waiting very patiently, for one in our front garden,as well, because that's still a long way to haul watering cans. I only found one company that made them,in Bromley but they only sell to the stores in bulk
If were talking about a standard size water butt approx. 200 litres its just too heavy to move. Don't move the butt, move the water. Get a submersible water pump and hose which you can drop into any butt .
Something like this hozelock ( although Hozelock wouldn't be my first choice. There are many of them listed on that well known shopping website. You'd need to check the pumps capacity to pump water over a given distance to suit your needs.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
I don't collect any water from the house roof for similar reasons (tricky locating a butt), but have several other garden structures which I use like @Biglad. There are three 200l butts (15'x10' garage roof, 8' x 8' shed roof & greenhouse#1 (12'x8') together with three 100l butts (10' x 6' GH & 8'x3' telescope shed) The final 100l butt is used as a thermal store in the big GH. Even with the drought conditions experienced here for the last couple of years, it's surprising how much water is collected from these relatively small free-standing structures and I collect more than enough to keep the 50+ pots and greenhouse plants happy. While the short heavy downpours we now get help little to directly water the garden (most goes to run-off), the butts can collect nearly all of it and fill surprisingly quickly.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
@JoeX as you said depends on the weather. But the small lean to shed is just an area to store pots, netting etc. The sloping roof is corrugated iron (we never throw anything away!!!). The water butt is used to water plants in the polytunnel when we don't want to get the hose out.
It rarely dries out but then the water is taken from it every day.
Another one takes the run off from our greenhouse. When this is full it has it's own run off into the pond
You could also buy at some expense a good looking waterbutt for the front of the house if that's your only alternative. I'm surprised you're not using the other walls/guttering though. We have four small water butts on three sides of our house, two on our small shed (one each side) and one on the original garage. I also have two other freestanding butts to collect rainwater (tops covered with insect proof mesh) in different places around the garden (we're on a hill). These last two take longer to fill of course but over the winter it's okay.
One of our neighbours has use of a nearby field to grow flowers for cutting but has no water supply there. She fills a plastic round container of some sort with water and rolls it herself down the hill and along the road. It sounds very laborious.
There are more styles of water butt here than you can shake a stick at ... perhaps you can find something that'd look ok at the front of the house https://www.waterbuttsdirect.co.uk/style
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Something like this hozelock ( although Hozelock wouldn't be my first choice. There are many of them listed on that well known shopping website. You'd need to check the pumps capacity to pump water over a given distance to suit your needs.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
I'm surprised you're not using the other walls/guttering though. We have four small water butts on three sides of our house, two on our small shed (one each side) and one on the original garage. I also have two other freestanding butts to collect rainwater (tops covered with insect proof mesh) in different places around the garden (we're on a hill). These last two take longer to fill of course but over the winter it's okay.
One of our neighbours has use of a nearby field to grow flowers for cutting but has no water supply there. She fills a plastic round container of some sort with water and rolls it herself down the hill and along the road. It sounds very laborious.
https://www.waterbuttsdirect.co.uk/style
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.