How do downpipe diverters work

Using a rainwater diverter to direct rainwater from the roofline drainage into a water butt results in a free source of water that can be used for these activities.

Another benefit of using a rainwater diverter to divert rainwater from the drainage system and into a storage tank is that the water is clean and free from any chemicals that are traditionally used to clean the water that is used within the home.

This can be beneficial because plants may be negatively affected by the chemicals within the mains water system, causing issues with growth. Storing rainwater that is collected via a rainwater diverter kit will mean clean and chemical-free water can be used on plants in your garden. When there are high levels of rainfall, the guttering system on your building can be so efficient that the rainwater reaches the ground drainage system quickly and can result in overflowing, leading to the water causing the ground to become saturated.

This can not only lead to muddy and unsightly gardens, but can also result in flooding, and unstable ground. Having a rainwater diverter in place reduces the amount of water that goes into the ground drainage system, and therefore minimises the risk of overflowing and saturation of the ground. Not sure which rainwater diverter is best for your home?

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Home Rainwater Rainwater Harvesting Downpipe diverter. Downpipe diverter The downpipe diverter lets you clean out spouting without having to disconnect your downpipes. Keeps debris out of collection tanks Reduces chances of drains filling and blocking when cleaning Spout folds up when not in use. Resources Technical Details Find a stockist.

Why Marley? Downpipe Diverter Instructions View. Technical Details. If you are lucky, it might jet-blast the debris back into your downpipe, passing the problem on to the drains.

But long term, you really need to have the diverter changed - and to install some sort of mesh shield, perhaps, at the point where the downpipe comes off the gutter, up above.

Sorry that I can't be more helpful! Still on water butts I have a spring which I use to fill my water butts, which are down hill from the spring, thus filling by gravity. As it becomes more and more dry my vegetable garden is suffering, which is uphill from the water butt. I use a water butt pump for my hose, but I have decided to install a watering system using the water in the butt as my source.

Someone suggested fitting a ballcock valve onto the inlet pipe so that the butt will fill automatically when the pump turns on. Can I do this and if so, how? Hi Susie That's quite a complicated question, which I can't really answer fully here, so I'll do another post on the subject. In the meantime, if I were you, I'd install at least two more stand-alone water butts, uphill of the veg patch, and use your solar pump to push the water from the first butt, uphill into the two "veg butts" which should be linked together.

This will give you a greater reservoir of water, and you can then attach the timer to the upper butts, so they do the irrigation by gravity, rather than by pumping. More details in due course! This would be technically a lot less complicated than trying to fit a ball-cock arrangement to a downpipe. Comments take 2 days to appear: please be patient. Please note that I do not allow any comments containing links: this is not me being controlling, or suppression of free speech: it is purely to prevent SPAM - I get a continual stream of fake comments with links to horrible things.

Trust me, you don't want to read them I was talking about a water butt fail the other day - which reminded me of this little fiasco from a couple of months back. I have a new Client whose house completely lacks water butts Don't they know that rainwater is free?? And nicer for the plants than nasty chlorinated old tap water?

So I asked if their handyman could re-install them. Normally I would just do the job myself, but in this case I have quite enough on my plate to get the large garden under control with just one morning a week in which to do it Oh dear.

This is what I found:. Labels: Garden School. Dave the builder 24 January at Bristolian 26 September at