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Water butts, decking, diverters and overflowing

pariate · 2018-01-22 11:46:57

Hi Another question about water butts I'm afraid! Our builder has voiced concerns about having the water butt on our decking. He said that even with a rain diverter, if we have torrential rain the diverter may not stop the water butt overflowing and this of course isn't ideal if the butt is standing on decking. Can…

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Singing Gardener Posts: 1,237

September 2019

Our excess water goes into a field drain (a pipe with holes in it) - maybe that would work better than a porous pipe? We don't have any problems with waterlogged plants but our pipe is about 12 inches below ground level.

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