Butt Pump

[McMouse]

My butt is full and a good pump should do the trick.

[EcclesCake]

You've had more rain than me then! I'm back on mains water to flush the loo as our tank/butt is empty :-(

[rockyracoon]

Okey dokes :-0

[rockyracoon]

Lol, I thought you was being rude.

[flump1]

Mine only has a tap...

[2sp_]

My favourite question title of all time...

[Hopkirk]

Are you J Lo in disguise?

[McMouse]

A butt to butt connection provides a satisfactory solution too.

[Brinjal]

Oh dear lol had to think about that one

[Brinjal]

Or I should have said *Titterfarkle*

[Brinjal]

Ha ha censor

[McMouse]

As I have four butts standing at the rear of the house have decided to daisy chain them.

[boxtops]

McMouse - do you know you can get an annual discount on your wastewater rates by having all your roof water going into butts? I have - it's only £13 a year but it's a small victory for the woman in the street..... I had to send a photo of the butts and explain what I use the water for, but I got the discount!

[Octavius]

Do you need to pump? Can't you just take the *** out and let gravity do its thing?

[douglas9401]

In the land of the rusty Jock we seldom need to harvest the rain, we just wait a few hours for the next lot.

[Hopkirk]

Weather report for Douglas's gaff.



Look outside.

If the ground is wet, it's raining.

If the ground is dry, it's about to rain.

[McMouse]

Thanks boxtops. Ours is an old house and all rainwater normally goes into soak-aways except where we divert to butts. Been getting the discount for years now. It caused some problems when we had the drouth hosepipe ban because I had so much stored rainwater (5,000 litres) that when I used the butt pump to water the front garden pot plants someone reported me. Water people came round and were satisfied all was ok.

[SlackAlice]

After seeing the thread title, I was about to suggest a bar of Ex Lax might do the trick.

Butt, I've changed my mind ☺☺☺

[sunny-dave]

Yes - a kindly neighbour at a previous address shopped me to Severn Trent for using a hosepipe - I was able to demonstrate that it had been syphoning my bath water onto my potato patch ...

[douglas9401]

Saves a fortune on window cleaning and car washing, Hopkirk. :)

[boxtops]

Good, innit, mcmouse? not enough people know about it!