Connect a hose to the rain barrel

Why connect a hose?

• More flexibility
• Automatic watering
• Overflow protection

More flexibility

So that you can collect rainwater in a targeted manner, you must have your Rain barrel connect with a downpipe. This normally requires a location directly on the gutter. However, if you connect a hose, you have the option of setting up your rain barrel around five meters away. This is particularly advantageous if you want to hide your rain barrel because of its unsightly appearance.

Automatic watering

You will certainly use the water from your rain barrel primarily for watering flowers. Isn't it tedious to constantly dip the watering can over the edge to scoop up water? A connected hose that you lay in the garden conveys the water into the beds all by itself. In this way, for example, you can use your Glasshouse water. It is important that there is a water pressure of at least 0.5 bar in the barrel. Only under this condition does the water flow into the hose by itself. You may have to put the rain barrel on one for this

elevated space build up.

Overflow protection

Some days it rains without a break. A blessing for people who collect the precipitation and use it for the garden or household. It is only annoying when the extent of the rain barrel exceeds the capacity of the water overflows and gets lost in the ground. By doing two Rain barrels(€ 3.68 at Amazon *) together associate, avoid this waste. If the one barrel is full, it passes the water on to the next container. A hose is the simplest connection between the rain barrels.

Connect the hose to the rain barrel and downpipe

1. You need a push-on pipe with a hose connection.
2. Cut out a correspondingly large hole in the downpipe.
3. Insert the extension tube.
4. Drill A hole 10 cm below the upper edge in the rain barrel.
5. associate You lapel pipe and rain barrel with the hose.