Rainwater diverter

[Pocster]

So you get these things that connect to your down pipe to fill a water butt .

Unless you add a seperate overflow it would seem the tank will overflow once full . I guess if you get the height / level exact it will fill on rain and not overflow when full . Seems a bit hit / miss .

What about a diverter from the down pipe and an overflow back into the same down pipe ?

[marshian]

5 minutes ago, Pocster said:

So you get these things that connect to your down pipe to fill a water butt .

Unless you add a seperate overflow it would seem the tank will overflow once full . I guess if you get the height / level exact it will fill on rain and not overflow when full . Seems a bit hit / miss .

What about a diverter from the down pipe and an overflow back into the same down pipe ?

it’s not hit and miss at all - 4 butts all fill to within 5mm of the lid before they just internally flow back to the soakaway,

they normally come with pretty clear and easy to understand instructions

 

Having said that I’ve mostly got flap diverters - so I can switch off the flow to the butts in winter

[Pocster]

Some of these diverters come with a flexible pipe to the tank . The photos suggest the down pipe fitting is higher than the inlet into the tank . So it will fill ok with rain . But I see quite a few comments relating to tank overflowing when full rather than back into diverter and into down pipe .

Just seems a bit unclear which systems work ( assuming installed correctly of course ! ) 

[Pocster]

Gutter mate for the win !

[Bramco]

15 hours ago, Pocster said:

assuming installed correctly of course

 Indeed...

 

The butt doesn't overflow if the pipe is level - in that case the water overflows internally in the diverter and goes down the drainpipe.

[Pocster]

1 minute ago, Bramco said:

 Indeed...

 

The butt doesn't overflow if the pipe is level - in that case the water overflows internally in the diverter and goes down the drainpipe.

Yes . It’s very hard from photos etc to tell if they’ve got the height of the diverter correct relative to the butt top .

Gutter mate seems easier . Because the flexi pipe inlet can be placed with out great accuracy. The gutter mate fitting ( on the down pipe ) is the critical point I.e level with butt top .

[Bramco]

50 minutes ago, Pocster said:

Gutter mate seems easier

Ugly though innit

[Pocster]

8 minutes ago, Bramco said:

Ugly though innit

It’s a rain diverter not a pervert website ( at least I don’t think so ) .

 

Ah ! Re read your statement! . 🤣 shows how my mind works …

Edited January 29 by Pocster

[Bramco]

I'd expected you to pick me up on the 'butt doesn't overflow if the pipe is level' comment above - tbh.

[Pocster]

13 minutes ago, Bramco said:

I'd expected you to pick me up on the 'butt doesn't overflow if the pipe is level' comment above - tbh.

I was going too . But waaaaaaaaaay to obvious . I do have ( low ) standards you know !