The average roof sheds 160 gallons of rainwater per hour during a moderate rain fall. Rainwater is better for your garden than tap water: it is at ambient temperature rather than being cold, and it is not chlorinated or treated with chemicals.
The Garden Water Saver, is a device that attaches to your home’s downspout, and allows you to use any container as a rainwater barrel. It diverts rainwater until the container becomes full, and then it automatically shuts off. It will fill a 55 gallon rain barrel in 2 to 3 hours during a moderate rainfall. The kit is available for $19.95 from Garden Water Saver.
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Hi, great site. Do you know of any manufacturers of rainwater divereters to fit 50mm round downpipe. I have installed Marley Miniline rainwater kit but cannot find a suitable diverter to get the rainwater into the water butt – short of drilling a 50mm hole in the lid!
Thanks for any help
Paul
Look out for Jardesign and Jardieco products from France. I am busy translating their website which should be online soon in English.
Christ! Just pull the website up in Google Chrome. It will translate for you automatically – in any language. This is not difficult.
We have a all aluminum water diverter with built in debris trap. This unit has a removable basket to clean debris trap. $99.99
I needed my diverter to stop overflow and to stop mosquitoes. The garden saver worked for this fine. The only problem I had with this diverter is that it broke during a flash freeze. I tried a few other diverters and put them to the test. The only one that stood is the RainReserve.
The clean-flo diverter is by far the best diverter available on the market today. All aluminum water diverter with built in debris trap, and removable basket.
I got an all aluminum downspout diverter that looks like an upside down Y http://www.downspoutdiverters.com/index.php – they have that fit 2×3, 3×4, 3 and 4 inch rounds too
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