Shouldn't keep your firewood up against the house it can attract carpenter ants powder post beetles and even termites in certain areas I recommend keeping your wood pile away from your house other than that great job
@@johnathon007 Brick walls still have weeping holes to let moisture get out from between the brick surface and the inner wood wall, blocking those off with wood can give problematic bugs (termites, carpenter ants, etc) a way in, and prevent proper drainage causing mold/mildew buildup inside the wall.
Putting screen in the top of your downspout is prone to debris buildup. A simpler solution is have a screen across the top of your barrel as that's easier to reach and clean. Also, mosquitoes will love the nesting ground you've made so there's a few solutions. 1. Get frogs 2. Chemical treatment 3. Running water( get a solar powered pond fountain and pull water from the last barrel and have it spray into the first barrel)
I had literally just dug a baby pond and put maybe two three buckets of tadpoles in there hoping to keep the bugs down. So glad I saw this to confirm it ❤
He should have mounted the barrels higher so he can open the tap to have water run down into a bucket or through a hose in the garden (at a pedestrian pace).
A tip for cheap rain barrels: Find a local canning operation like a craft farm that sells canned jams. These places have 55gal food grade drums to get rid of and often sell them on the side cheap.
As someone who replaces gutters for a living, i freaking hate those screens. Also, if you have asphalt shingles i wouldn't use that water for anything other than watering plants you dont plan on eating.
I installed gutters for years and now do sales. Those screens really do nothing but create a giant dam right at the downspout. And yes asphalt roofs need way more filtration that a screen a rain barrel has on it. Only seen 1 customer use rainwater for in home use (showers and laundry, no drinking) and that's because it was on a mountain and drilled 3 wells to like 600' and never found water. Also good filtration out of his collection tanks. I'd only ever use rainwater run off if it was metal roof + a very good filter system after collection for drinking. Even then I'd want to boil it first. Asphalt roofs are sure to cause you some form of cancer down the road haha.
This is a valiant effort. Though a word of caution.. That screen in the top of the down spout will easily get clogged, and will 100% allow small debris into your tanks.
Worked on gutters for 28 years and the wire light bulb screens in the gutter outlets will block up very easily from the smallest leaf debris causing the gutters to overflow.
As an Australian who lives in the country, it still freaks me out that there aren't water tanks on every house. That's the only water we had until i was 14 lol
Mosquitoes are horrible here and people are lazy and can’t be trusted to maintain barrels of water. We can barely get the neighbors to get rid of nasty above ground pools that they’ve let go but refuse to trash. lol
That's because all of us in the country in the US have wells. Uncontaminated totally fresh spring water with absolutely no way to be infested with mosquito larvae or any other air requiring water bug let alone other above ground environmental contaminants. And it's better than any bottled water you can find anywhere.
I've been looking for different properties and it MUST have a well on it. We plan a trip in a few weeks and I'm bringing a water test kit to see what the water quality is like..
Been trapping Pac Nothrwest rain water for decades. We upped the antie and now run it thru a Watts 2 stage with a poly scrubber and then a coconut husk charcoal filter 2nd, then into my distiller. Water test after finish shows perfect water. The distiller plays double duty, for the Orange flavor Stump Whiskey. The hardest part is cleaning properly, before making another run or just distilling water. The other straight rainwater barrels are for cleanup, or flushing the toilet when the power goes out and I cant run my pump. A big bucket of water tossed quickly into the toilet bowl will overcome the trap and flush the toilet, when the power is out, anywhere you have a trap style toilet. Your welcome.
I put mine on the ground and realized I couldn't fill buckets, so I went with a submersible pump. Doing it that way I was able to attach a garden hose spigot to it and use it that way which I found to be much better than buckets in the long run.
Only issue with propping those barrels up is the weight. I had 2 barrels split because they were on cement blocks that didn't support the ENTIRE bottom.
That's the post I was looking for 👍 I have mine elevated 12" off the ground plus my barrel has 2 spouts 1 in the middle and 1 at the bottom I put a window screen on top of the barrel with 2 bricks after the rain I just brush it off👍💪
I got that who.e kit minus the barrel off Amazon. Came with the thing that goes into the spout, a hose to go from that to the barrel, a valve with hose threads that goes in the barrel all the screws, rubber grommets and a cap to cover the hole in the down spot over winter. Oh and it came with the two hole saws needed to install this. Works like a charm.
In South Africa we’ve been doing this for a while. The JOJO tank brand is the most popular and the rain barrels are tanks here, all shapes and sizes to squeeze into any area. If you do it properly, all your spouts are fed into one for maximum catchment. We also attached pumps where needed.
Says "supposedly" and then describes a fundamental property of fluid dynamics. Good on you sir, I hope this works out for you! With that screen on the inlet be sure to clean your gutters frequently if you have any trees nearby.
Gutter guy here! Don't be afraid of cutting that downspout to size. The spout can be pretty cheap if you get aluminum. It's also easy to cut and rather forgiving. I don't recommend the screen at the top of the spout. If you have any trees around your home that will be a nightmare come fall.
Here's a tip for people wanting to do something similar. Call around to your local well drilling companies, and ask if they have any old fiberglass pressure tanks. You can easily remove the air bladder to allow water to fill the tank. They also have threaded inserts on the bottom, and you can easily plumb them together. I saved some from jobs that we replaced.
You need to lift them up on cinderblocks it’ll make the water flows so much faster due to the fact that they’re so low level. What are you actually going to get out of it unless it’s completely full
A word of advice. I have a 210 gallon tank that is connected to my gutter system. The oil and asphalt that runs off of my asphalt roof does not taste good and leaves a huge black residue inside my tank every year. If you were going to get any kind of system, you need to have a metal stainless steel or aluminum roof not asphalt with shingles. It does not do anything for the body.
I was just thinking about that exact situation! Why not build it standalone near the building with a steel mesh cover to keep particulates out and an even basic filtration system? Like yeah it’s more expensive. Though if you’re trying to collect rainwater through literally anything other than a cloudy with a chance of meatballs food making device. You’d need something to clean it up and maybe even a few bottles of iodide to make sure you don’t get deathly sick due to whatever crawled into your water supply. Though this supposing you don’t use it for anything other than a shower. Which is still kinda sketch but I’m not a homesteader so idk lol
@@TemptationsEnd I use it for watering the garden and grass. I put a stocking over the end to catch the asphalt. You can use it for flushing the toilet in emergencies but frowned upon if you pay for sewage because they get that price out of how much water you use. For offgrade living, you would have to use a metal roof and bury the tank halfway to keep the water from heating up in the sun and like you said many filters.
@@EnlightenedSavage yeah I was kidding when I said I drank it and it taste oily. I would never drink that. Put the stuff that gets left over in the tank, kind of puts me a little on edge about even spraying it on the vegetable garden
Seriously? Roof collection systems are not put in for potable water. I can't imagine anyone thinking that's a good idea for drinking! This is irrigation water...
Sweet rig up man only thing I would recommend is termites love that firewood man…it’s a little close to your very well taken care of home. Sweet set up!
I live in Northern Germany. The downspouts on our landlord's house have built in little "doors" on the front. All you do is flip them open and it's at the right height for a rain barrel. 👍🏻
Anyone who spends 80 bucks on a rain Barrel should probably be not making videos cause he doesn’t know shit. Lol you can get barrels for 10-20 bucks basically anywhere in the country. Check craigslist food grade barrels. This guy is either sponsored or a total kook
I went cheap and daisy chained five 40 gallon trash cans together. When the 1st can is full it then fills the 2nd and so and so on. It’s Mai Ky to water the yard but could come in handy in a emergency if you boil or treat the water with purification tablets
This is wonderful for watering the grass or a garden! And so simple to set up, just gotta climb up to the gutters every month to clean them out, but its still a nice starting set up! If you are going to use that water to do anything more like cooking or bathing, don't do it if your roof has tar. If its metal or a shingles imitation, you could get away with it if you had proper way of removing any debris from your gutters with ease and a flush. A flush is usually a large pipe running down with the gutter that has a twist on cap at the end, it will fill up first with the water that would have heavy containment from birds and stuff, allowing cleaner water to be stored. I always recommend storing water already cleaned and filtered in the case of emergency.
And how many hours on end would one spend saving a few bucks? Amazon delivers for basically free, I'm pretty sure your factory won't do that. There are a gajilion other reasons to just push a button and have it show up at your door.
What? No way barrels are expensive in any for unless you want something more flimsy that can never be filled without possible breaking but otherwise idk maybe some where they sell cheap ones with good quality I’d love to try something like this for my daughter but buying 3 and everything else sounds more like a when she’s older project 😅
@@charlieweckston8260 As if you would be happy storing water in a old rusted out free drum. The rain barrel here is non reactive. You won't be stuck with orange soup.
What a great day to be a Bama fan. Lets go and show Coach KD we appreciate him taking this job knoqing wjat we the fans expect from him as a coach. RTR and keep om grinding Kyle. Love from North Bama Kyle and Team.
Okay I did this for a while but got fed up with the 55 gallon barrels and minimal quantity you can store. The water really looked and tasted bad coming off a shingle roof so it was only used in gardening. I got rid of the whole system and I got a large 500 gallon tank and had plastic sheets that I open up when it rains and it collects all the water straight into the 500 gallon barrel. Water is cleaner and it doesn't need to be filtered off of the gutter. Smells and tastes clean. It's just way cleaner water. The 500 gallon tank cost is about 150 dollars more than the cost of those 3 55 gallon barrels which only attribute to about 165 gallons of water? I've got 500 gallons and I get enough rain here that I can fill up my 500 gallon barrel in a month easily. I do still have a filter for debris but it's minimal since I have very few trees close to my house.
In Washington State that tank would be illegal. It's legal to collect rain water that falls on existing roofs, but it is not legal to put up a roof, tarp or catchment for the sole purpose of collecting rainwater. Sounds dumb sure, and fairly easy to work around but it prob still deters any kind of commercializing it. @@nancylourose
As a brit.we would link the tops of the barrels with a short flexible hose.so the first barrel would fill then the second then 3rd.and any crap would settle in the 1st barrel.
This, my city has a ban on rainwater collection for "reasons" that they don't specify(probably because they can't tax you for using that water, the greedy cunts), but if an inspector comes around and happens to see rainwater barrels connected to any drainage system it can be a large fine.
You need a device that let's the first bit of rain flow out the gutter so the gutter is washed cleaned. Once a bit of water has flowed through the water is the diverted to the barrels.
I agree with you bud , dirty water from first rains , yuck bird shit leaf mud pop , that's what this dumbass will be drinking till his system all clogs up.!
I was looking for your overflow option. If one barrel fills have a pipe connecting the barrels so the next one fills. I live in the North wet, so we get a lot of rain 😅
Check your local car dealership service shop. we use 55 gallon barrels for things like washer fluid and synthetic oil. We typically have old empty barrels stacking up and most are happy to get rid of them for free.
You should have used an offset debris collector in between the down spout and the barrels to help with collecting and smaller debris that will make it through the gutter screen. And, you should have connected all three barrels at the top coming off of the down spout. Then, all 3 barrels will fill evenly. I down installations like this whether it is installing plastic tanks sitting above ground, or the big concrete tanks underground.
You could get 55 gallon drums for like $15-$30 Plastic or metal those plastic totes are less than 100 bucks with 230 gallons In a nice drain at the bottom
A someone who installs gutters and downspouts professionally, this looks like a good job, my only recommendation is save up and get some actually gutter gaurd, the screens that just sit in the drop never last
I understand you aren't a gutter mechanic but here's a tip, cut the downspout about 8 inches from the top of your rain barrel. Buy 1 3x4 B elbow and 1 3x4 downspout, put the b elbow on the downspout facing left after crimping the cut end, then cut the 3x4 downspout to the correct length to drop into the rain barrel. That diverter adapter will still get clogged very easily. Best of luck to ya bud.
I put my barrels on platforms , off of the ground, with a shut off and short piece of garden hose. I also secure them to the wall so they don't tumble over. 385 lbs of water( 7x55)
My mother-in-law in Thailand has five 3,000 litre cement "jugs" to collect rainwater. This sort of setup is normal all over the country, especially in rural areas.
I put the downspout into the bottom of a bucket. Fill the bucket with filter material like the stuff for air conditioning. Put an hole in the bottom and run a pipe to the top of the bucket, over fill line. I kept water clean for two years. Crystal clear. Drank some and tasted nothing at all. Also had the storage tank about 5ft off the ground for gravity feed.
Put a valve on the diverter and keep it closed until it has rained for 10 minutes or more. This will give the rain a chance to rinse off the roof and to wash debris out of your gutters.
That all brick siding and concrete foundation is specifically for stacking wood under the overhang, and the underside of the overhang has repellent guarenteed. It isn't impossible that termites will get in, but it's less likely than with most other types of house designs.
It's just smart to not do it, regardless of the material. Build a firewood shack next to the house with a gap from the back shack wall and the house like half a foot or a foot.
Being from Maine/New Hampshire originally, I was pretty sure collecting rainwater was illegal without some sort of permit. Just make sure that you are also going to do this project, that you check your local and state laws.
What you wanna add is a first flush valve, idea being is when you haven’t had rain for a while soot, dirt and other small particles that can bypass the shield gets flushed out first before water diverts to the tanks
Its helpful to have your first barrel higher and have connected to second and third barrel. Cheapest is free or $5 food grade barrel and buy water spickets, screen for top of barrel for easy cleaning out. Black paint if barrels are lighter color.
Before building this, did you check with your local municipality and or your HOA to make sure that collecting rainwater is legal in your area ? In many areas it is not.
That is absolutely a rule that should be broken. Australian here and it's just normal that homes have at least one small rain water tank, many homes have multiple large rainwater tanks and lots of people use rainwater exclusively in their homes.
@@melpixie5480 I don't disagree with the sentiment, but in my municipality getting caught collecting rainwater can lead to thousands of dollars in fines. Likely because you're not paying taxes on that collected rainwater VS using municipal water from a hose.
Ruined because some idiot "collected rainwater" by diverting a river onto his property to make a lake. Conspiracy theorists to this day still claim he was just collecting rain water.
Plumber that specialized in rain water collection systems here, its bad practice to reduce the size of your pipe, rather, just cut the pipe above the barrels and get a rectangular to 65 or 100mm pvc fitting and an elbow and that way you don't restrict flow, plus a very low chance for anything to catch and get stuck. Rainwater collection tanks generally have a filter above the tank, and the down pipe sits with a gap (big enough to unscrew and clean the filter) for debris / bugs like mosquitoes. Also I recommend not using a clear pipe as it can attract algee and get discoloration from the sun, rather connect them with a bit of polyethylene pipe 25mm should do the trick with a ball valve in between them to control filling individually or to control contamination and for maintenance with minimal waste. Also I did not see an overflow but I am sure it would have one. Lastly get a pump if you want to go all out 😁
Yeah so we collect rain water (for window cleaning business) and we simply bought an old IBC tank (1000lts) for €50 and diverted one down pipe into it and add an over flow back to the drain, probably cost less then €80 all done, we then run the water through a resin filter. More then clean enough to drink (if you needed to) but doesn't really taste of anything.
Here in Ohio, we go to the local car wash and get blue 55gal drums. They give them to you free of charge. We use them for rain barrels and even boat docks as well.
Dude market place in Facebook someone is always selling rain barrels for around 20. I bought 3 that were used for vinegar. And all I had to do was powerwash them and then hook up the hardware like this guy did.
Just a tip, if you are looking for cheap 55 gallon HDPE barrels a great place to source them are local hydroponic grow stores... these barrels are used often in the industry for pre mixing liquid fertilizes and they often source them from food production plants, such as pickle or cornmeal plants, which can not be reused in food production due to hygiene rules, but are 100% fine for collecting rain water, so they tend to sell them for anywhere from 20 to 30 dollars a barrel, a total steal!
AS SOMEONE WHO HAS LIVED ON 'CATCHMENT WATER' FOR THE LAST 35YR, YOUR BARRELS ARE NOT FOR DRINKING FROM, IF THATS YOUR PLAN. THE SCREENS ONLY STOP LARGER LEAVES .. WHICH WILL BREAKDOWN DROP FILTERS ARE BEST
Well if you do a down chiffon drain before the barrels it help to get less debris into it or also some screen filter on the line much better just like that lesser barrel cleaning!!
On your pvc lines after the gutter cut out/diversion section you made you should add more filtration and use unions on that section of piping to be able to remove it and clean the filters. Will help keep more debris out.
I'm all for collecting rain water but remember, your asphalt shingle are made of petroleum...not even sure I would water my garden with it but nice construct...
So next time when you do this: 1 put the barrels high enough so you can put a watering can underneath it 2 make sure the drain pipe of the down pipe is sloping to prevent sand from cluttering it 3 Let one barrel flow over in the other on the top and not on the bottom. Now if 1 barrel leaks all three will empty.
If you can, insert a filter diverter up near the eaves of your roof where the downspout goes from being curved to straight down. There will be a break in the spout where the pieces join together. The diverter will capture and slow down the flow of water so any dirt, debris and junk from your shingles will get trapped in one section of the diverter, giving it time to sink to the bottom rather than continuing down the down spout to the barrels. Your barrels are going to overflow every rain so you have to make sure that water has somewhere else to go. (away from your foundation) Half an inch of water falling on a 1,000 square-foot roof will collect 300 gallons of water. Twice what your barrels can hold.
Connect all your barrels together at the top part of the barrel to fill them all, put a spigot on them, and then use a small transfer pump to use on areas like ur garden
Whoever your parents are taught, you a lot of very intelligent things and you should thank them hug them and kiss them and tell them. Thank you for giving me such a wonderful life.
Two items I'd like to offer 1: placing where you divert the water from the spout at least above the level of the top of the barrels would be better for filling 2: if you have asphalt tiles on your roof, look up rain barrels foul flush. The first 20ish minutes have any chemicals that have leeched to the surface of your roof and a foul flush helps divert away from the water collection barrels
Americans commenting like this is some amazing feet. In Australia, in most states, it is a condition of building a new house that you have a water tank that can hold a % of your roof catchment area. Most places on larger blocks have huge water storage tanks.
As a gutter guy of 25 years, we always give a price to come back and disconnect them when people get sick of them. These won’t work because he sat them right in the ground. Need a few blocks of height.
Shouldn't keep your firewood up against the house it can attract carpenter ants powder post beetles and even termites in certain areas I recommend keeping your wood pile away from your house other than that great job
Was going to comment this same thing. This is a very real thing
Don't forget spiders!!
How do people forget the craziest part, rats!!!! Rats love that shit and then with a water collection right next to it ☠️☠️☠️
I was going to say the same thing. Also don’t forget snakes love woodpiles too.
so hold up, the termites are going to chew through his brick siding? dumb azz. common sense isn't so common anymore i guess
If you can, move the wood away from the house. Vermin is a big reason.
Not that big of a deal on a brick house though.
@@johnathon007 Never, *ever* underestimate the little demon rodents 🫣
@@johnathon007 Brick walls still have weeping holes to let moisture get out from between the brick surface and the inner wood wall, blocking those off with wood can give problematic bugs (termites, carpenter ants, etc) a way in, and prevent proper drainage causing mold/mildew buildup inside the wall.
@@johnathon007 Granted. Trying to think of a way around it and can't. Good point.
Arguing about brick 🧱 or wood 🪵 😂
Putting screen in the top of your downspout is prone to debris buildup. A simpler solution is have a screen across the top of your barrel as that's easier to reach and clean. Also, mosquitoes will love the nesting ground you've made so there's a few solutions.
1. Get frogs
2. Chemical treatment
3. Running water( get a solar powered pond fountain and pull water from the last barrel and have it spray into the first barrel)
I had literally just dug a baby pond and put maybe two three buckets of tadpoles in there hoping to keep the bugs down. So glad I saw this to confirm it ❤
Yikes. The simple life is so complicated and expensive
That’s why you gotta get LeafGuard Lol
I been an installing gutter for 23 years I’m impressed. Usually home owners completely botch their own projects. You did a good job! 👍
He should have mounted the barrels higher so he can open the tap to have water run down into a bucket or through a hose in the garden (at a pedestrian pace).
A tip for cheap rain barrels: Find a local canning operation like a craft farm that sells canned jams. These places have 55gal food grade drums to get rid of and often sell them on the side cheap.
Or Facebook marketplace/kijiji tends to have them for like $20
Anything but Amazon for the love of god
Picked mine up from the local feed store, 20$ a piece
@@garlicburgerAgree!
We got 150 liter ones that still smelled like pickles! Nice advice
As someone who replaces gutters for a living, i freaking hate those screens. Also, if you have asphalt shingles i wouldn't use that water for anything other than watering plants you dont plan on eating.
I installed gutters for years and now do sales. Those screens really do nothing but create a giant dam right at the downspout. And yes asphalt roofs need way more filtration that a screen a rain barrel has on it.
Only seen 1 customer use rainwater for in home use (showers and laundry, no drinking) and that's because it was on a mountain and drilled 3 wells to like 600' and never found water. Also good filtration out of his collection tanks.
I'd only ever use rainwater run off if it was metal roof + a very good filter system after collection for drinking. Even then I'd want to boil it first. Asphalt roofs are sure to cause you some form of cancer down the road haha.
Meanwhile you're drinking fluoride, lead and bleach filled tap water.
@@ShuruiiDamn, things still bad in Flint huh?
@@Shuruiiimagine not understanding how water treatment works…
@@ShuruiiDon’t forget all the estrogen that we’re getting from birth control pills that never leave the water supply.
Thing I took away is that cool diverting plug so you dont have to completely reroute the downspout. Thank you for that!
This is good to have you fill up the 1st one & use that water for your yard .
This is a valiant effort.
Though a word of caution..
That screen in the top of the down spout will easily get clogged, and will 100% allow small debris into your tanks.
need to use a diverter, which allows the first 10-15 min of rainfall to go to waste with leaves and then diverts clean water to storage.
That screen the first to freeze
Every single bit of shingle dust is getting past that
Your shingle granular will get through that screen immediately and then your drinking asphalt shingle koolaid :)
leaf guards will keep debi out too
Worked on gutters for 28 years and the wire light bulb screens in the gutter outlets will block up very easily from the smallest leaf debris causing the gutters to overflow.
What would you recommend to do instead?
Mesh screen at the entrance to the rain barrel
@@Tegist123 literally just clean it every now and then. It's better than the debris going into your French drain anyway.
Better to use a first flush filter than that little wire bulb crap collector.
He explains in the video the diverter he installed will plug up IN the downspout. How is a screen at the rain barrel going to solve that?
My brain hurts watching all these tik tok DIYs 😂 idk how these people function day to day.
I don’t have any interest in this type of the project , but amazed by the comments and all the support , so amazing to see people help each other ……
😂😂😂 🎯
Regardless of how many people talk about negativity, there is a majority of positivity and support all around
@@BreakItYourselfcollects rainwater like a fkn Rtard😂🤣
As an Australian who lives in the country, it still freaks me out that there aren't water tanks on every house. That's the only water we had until i was 14 lol
Welcome to America where we left taxation to be taxed more and not allowed to collect rain water. Not to much longer
Mosquitoes are horrible here and people are lazy and can’t be trusted to maintain barrels of water. We can barely get the neighbors to get rid of nasty above ground pools that they’ve let go but refuse to trash. lol
All new houses built in Australia must have a rain water tank, usually connected to the toilets and washing machine.
@@ThisBloke760 Australian W
That's because all of us in the country in the US have wells. Uncontaminated totally fresh spring water with absolutely no way to be infested with mosquito larvae or any other air requiring water bug let alone other above ground environmental contaminants. And it's better than any bottled water you can find anywhere.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate having a well and large generator for times of disaster (Florida = hurricanes)
I've been looking for different properties and it MUST have a well on it. We plan a trip in a few weeks and I'm bringing a water test kit to see what the water quality is like..
Been trapping Pac Nothrwest rain water for decades. We upped the antie and now run it thru a Watts 2 stage with a poly scrubber and then a coconut husk charcoal filter 2nd, then into my distiller. Water test after finish shows perfect water. The distiller plays double duty, for the Orange flavor Stump Whiskey. The hardest part is cleaning properly, before making another run or just distilling water. The other straight rainwater barrels are for cleanup, or flushing the toilet when the power goes out and I cant run my pump. A big bucket of water tossed quickly into the toilet bowl will overcome the trap and flush the toilet, when the power is out, anywhere you have a trap style toilet. Your welcome.
Should've propped your barrels up on wooden boxes so you can fill your buckets easier when taking water out
I put mine on the ground and realized I couldn't fill buckets, so I went with a submersible pump. Doing it that way I was able to attach a garden hose spigot to it and use it that way which I found to be much better than buckets in the long run.
Put the barrels up a couple of feet and just attach a hose to the first barrel. It wont be high pressure and your flowers and veggies will love it.
Only issue with propping those barrels up is the weight. I had 2 barrels split because they were on cement blocks that didn't support the ENTIRE bottom.
That's the post I was looking for 👍 I have mine elevated 12" off the ground plus my barrel has 2 spouts 1 in the middle and 1 at the bottom I put a window screen on top of the barrel with 2 bricks after the rain I just brush it off👍💪
@@cboehm24 not surprising, a full 55gal barrel weighs around 450 lbs with water alone.
Be careful people, water weighs more than you think.
Thanks for the tip.
I've been putting this same project off for 3 years now.
Hopefully my local hardware store has everything needed
I got that who.e kit minus the barrel off Amazon. Came with the thing that goes into the spout, a hose to go from that to the barrel, a valve with hose threads that goes in the barrel all the screws, rubber grommets and a cap to cover the hole in the down spot over winter. Oh and it came with the two hole saws needed to install this. Works like a charm.
70 bucks seems wild if it wasnt for all 3.
Thank you great content. Advice termites can be introduced to the house from wood stored against house wall.
I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to deliver several giant barrels in my Amazon van💀
In South Africa we’ve been doing this for a while. The JOJO tank brand is the most popular and the rain barrels are tanks here, all shapes and sizes to squeeze into any area. If you do it properly, all your spouts are fed into one for maximum catchment. We also attached pumps where needed.
Yeppirs...stair-stepping your up-stream barrels an inch or so higher keeps the siphon working too 😉
Says "supposedly" and then describes a fundamental property of fluid dynamics. Good on you sir, I hope this works out for you!
With that screen on the inlet be sure to clean your gutters frequently if you have any trees nearby.
Gutter guy here! Don't be afraid of cutting that downspout to size. The spout can be pretty cheap if you get aluminum. It's also easy to cut and rather forgiving. I don't recommend the screen at the top of the spout. If you have any trees around your home that will be a nightmare come fall.
Here's a tip for people wanting to do something similar. Call around to your local well drilling companies, and ask if they have any old fiberglass pressure tanks. You can easily remove the air bladder to allow water to fill the tank. They also have threaded inserts on the bottom, and you can easily plumb them together. I saved some from jobs that we replaced.
You need to lift them up on cinderblocks it’ll make the water flows so much faster due to the fact that they’re so low level. What are you actually going to get out of it unless it’s completely full
Came here to say this!
A word of advice. I have a 210 gallon tank that is connected to my gutter system. The oil and asphalt that runs off of my asphalt roof does not taste good and leaves a huge black residue inside my tank every year. If you were going to get any kind of system, you need to have a metal stainless steel or aluminum roof not asphalt with shingles. It does not do anything for the body.
I was just thinking about that exact situation! Why not build it standalone near the building with a steel mesh cover to keep particulates out and an even basic filtration system? Like yeah it’s more expensive. Though if you’re trying to collect rainwater through literally anything other than a cloudy with a chance of meatballs food making device. You’d need something to clean it up and maybe even a few bottles of iodide to make sure you don’t get deathly sick due to whatever crawled into your water supply.
Though this supposing you don’t use it for anything other than a shower. Which is still kinda sketch but I’m not a homesteader so idk lol
@@TemptationsEnd I use it for watering the garden and grass.
I put a stocking over the end to catch the asphalt. You can use it for flushing the toilet in emergencies but frowned upon if you pay for sewage because they get that price out of how much water you use.
For offgrade living, you would have to use a metal roof and bury the tank halfway to keep the water from heating up in the sun and like you said many filters.
You shouldn't be drinking that off the roof any way. It needs to be heavily filtered. Reverse osmosis system should be what you use.
@@EnlightenedSavage yeah I was kidding when I said I drank it and it taste oily. I would never drink that.
Put the stuff that gets left over in the tank, kind of puts me a little on edge about even spraying it on the vegetable garden
Seriously? Roof collection systems are not put in for potable water. I can't imagine anyone thinking that's a good idea for drinking! This is irrigation water...
Sweet rig up man only thing I would recommend is termites love that firewood man…it’s a little close to your very well taken care of home. Sweet set up!
I live in Northern Germany. The downspouts on our landlord's house have built in little "doors" on the front. All you do is flip them open and it's at the right height for a rain barrel. 👍🏻
I think this needs a long format follow up 👍
Anyone who spends 80 bucks on a rain Barrel should probably be not making videos cause he doesn’t know shit. Lol you can get barrels for 10-20 bucks basically anywhere in the country. Check craigslist food grade barrels. This guy is either sponsored or a total kook
I went cheap and daisy chained five 40 gallon trash cans together. When the 1st can is full it then fills the 2nd and so and so on. It’s Mai Ky to water the yard but could come in handy in a emergency if you boil or treat the water with purification tablets
Man showed us a lifehack to cut water bills in half and everyones worried about the logs against the house. Love it
This is wonderful for watering the grass or a garden! And so simple to set up, just gotta climb up to the gutters every month to clean them out, but its still a nice starting set up!
If you are going to use that water to do anything more like cooking or bathing, don't do it if your roof has tar. If its metal or a shingles imitation, you could get away with it if you had proper way of removing any debris from your gutters with ease and a flush. A flush is usually a large pipe running down with the gutter that has a twist on cap at the end, it will fill up first with the water that would have heavy containment from birds and stuff, allowing cleaner water to be stored.
I always recommend storing water already cleaned and filtered in the case of emergency.
75 dollors for a rain barrel is def not the cheapest option, just get food grade plastic barrels from a factory, like 20 bucks
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. He probably means the cheapest that is still eye pleasing. Not some bright blur barrel.
You can ask local restaurants for their empty pickle buckets. Usually you can score a few for free 👍
Or an actual water tank 🤦🏽♂️
@@jaredkindredWell then get a $4 can of spray paint and have at it, now it's $24
And how many hours on end would one spend saving a few bucks? Amazon delivers for basically free, I'm pretty sure your factory won't do that. There are a gajilion other reasons to just push a button and have it show up at your door.
wow that was an insane price for something that's regularly thrown away
What would you use the water for
What? No way barrels are expensive in any for unless you want something more flimsy that can never be filled without possible breaking but otherwise idk maybe some where they sell cheap ones with good quality I’d love to try something like this for my daughter but buying 3 and everything else sounds more like a when she’s older project 😅
@@Nebraska_Juanused 55 gallon. Drum
@@charlieweckston8260 As if you would be happy storing water in a old rusted out free drum. The rain barrel here is non reactive. You won't be stuck with orange soup.
@@BlueBoyo101 plastic 55 gallon drum🤓
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Good on you Mate. A great project.
Okay I did this for a while but got fed up with the 55 gallon barrels and minimal quantity you can store. The water really looked and tasted bad coming off a shingle roof so it was only used in gardening. I got rid of the whole system and I got a large 500 gallon tank and had plastic sheets that I open up when it rains and it collects all the water straight into the 500 gallon barrel. Water is cleaner and it doesn't need to be filtered off of the gutter. Smells and tastes clean. It's just way cleaner water. The 500 gallon tank cost is about 150 dollars more than the cost of those 3 55 gallon barrels which only attribute to about 165 gallons of water? I've got 500 gallons and I get enough rain here that I can fill up my 500 gallon barrel in a month easily. I do still have a filter for debris but it's minimal since I have very few trees close to my house.
Roof collection is not intended for potable water... This is irrigation water.
Trying to picture this....do the plastic sheets act like a funnel ?
In Washington State that tank would be illegal.
It's legal to collect rain water that falls on existing roofs, but it is not legal to put up a roof, tarp or catchment for the sole purpose of collecting rainwater.
Sounds dumb sure, and fairly easy to work around but it prob still deters any kind of commercializing it. @@nancylourose
Plastic sheets? Where and how designed? Connected to downspout? I live in FL and get a lot if rain. Metal roof. Thanks
Craigslist 55gallon drums or 275?gallon totes. Get em from $10-$20 a barrel and about $50-$75 for 275 g tote. Save dat money
Thank you
As a brit.we would link the tops of the barrels with a short flexible hose.so the first barrel would fill then the second then 3rd.and any crap would settle in the 1st barrel.
I like the wording "I happened to pick up three of them", like he's just surprised that's what he did, 😂😂
Don't let the government know you collected water without giving them there cut
I was gonna say I believe this isn’t even “legal” in some places.
@@stevewoodytSame.
This, my city has a ban on rainwater collection for "reasons" that they don't specify(probably because they can't tax you for using that water, the greedy cunts), but if an inspector comes around and happens to see rainwater barrels connected to any drainage system it can be a large fine.
It is illegal in Colorado to collect more then one barrel of rain water.
"there"? Really? 😂
You need a device that let's the first bit of rain flow out the gutter so the gutter is washed cleaned. Once a bit of water has flowed through the water is the diverted to the barrels.
I agree with you bud , dirty water from first rains , yuck bird shit leaf mud pop , that's what this dumbass will be drinking till his system all clogs up.!
It’s called a first flush device.
That's really cool.I would have the screen on top of the barrels though so you don't have to go up to the roof to clean out the screens
Nothing like stacking your greatest fire hazard against your house 😂
I was looking for your overflow option. If one barrel fills have a pipe connecting the barrels so the next one fills. I live in the North wet, so we get a lot of rain 😅
I was thinking the same thing. I thought the overflow spills from the first one is what filled the second one and so on.
Insurance companies will love seeing that 😂
Check your local car dealership service shop. we use 55 gallon barrels for things like washer fluid and synthetic oil. We typically have old empty barrels stacking up and most are happy to get rid of them for free.
You should have used an offset debris collector in between the down spout and the barrels to help with collecting and smaller debris that will make it through the gutter screen.
And, you should have connected all three barrels at the top coming off of the down spout.
Then, all 3 barrels will fill evenly.
I down installations like this whether it is installing plastic tanks sitting above ground, or the big concrete tanks underground.
They fill evenly. The level equalizes through the bottom tube, as they are tied together there.
55gallon food grade barrels are $20-$30.
You could get 55 gallon drums for like $15-$30 Plastic or metal those plastic totes are less than 100 bucks with 230 gallons In a nice drain at the bottom
A someone who installs gutters and downspouts professionally, this looks like a good job, my only recommendation is save up and get some actually gutter gaurd, the screens that just sit in the drop never last
I understand you aren't a gutter mechanic but here's a tip, cut the downspout about 8 inches from the top of your rain barrel. Buy 1 3x4 B elbow and 1 3x4 downspout, put the b elbow on the downspout facing left after crimping the cut end, then cut the 3x4 downspout to the correct length to drop into the rain barrel. That diverter adapter will still get clogged very easily. Best of luck to ya bud.
For collecting rain water I'd highly recommend rain gutter guards, they work much better than the screens and they don't clog up the gutters 👍
Gutter guards are horrid for gutters, you can't clean them at all and they still allow dirt and such in, they just grow moss and grass
I put my barrels on platforms , off of the ground, with a shut off and short piece of garden hose. I also secure them to the wall so they don't tumble over. 385 lbs of water( 7x55)
I did this also acts like a sink I love it getting rain water is so good for my plants
Just FYI, a gallon of water weighs ~8.3lbs
*US gallon
My mother-in-law in Thailand has five 3,000 litre cement "jugs" to collect rainwater. This sort of setup is normal all over the country, especially in rural areas.
I put the downspout into the bottom of a bucket. Fill the bucket with filter material like the stuff for air conditioning. Put an hole in the bottom and run a pipe to the top of the bucket, over fill line. I kept water clean for two years. Crystal clear. Drank some and tasted nothing at all. Also had the storage tank about 5ft off the ground for gravity feed.
As an German I have to say you Americans are making everything complicated 😂😂
Says someone from the country that made Tiger tanks and BMWs
Audi
That is all.
@@birdmann9197 You're right. The last word in complication.
As an automotive technician who worked on Audis and VWs I have to laugh, and cringe, at this comment.
BMWs😂
Put a valve on the diverter and keep it closed until it has rained for 10 minutes or more. This will give the rain a chance to rinse off the roof and to wash debris out of your gutters.
Word of advice for the future, dont stack wood right up against your house. Your inviting termites right in
That all brick siding and concrete foundation is specifically for stacking wood under the overhang, and the underside of the overhang has repellent guarenteed. It isn't impossible that termites will get in, but it's less likely than with most other types of house designs.
Brick walls have weeping holes, still not smart to stack wood against brick
@@ScootsMcPoot True, but it's also supposed to be treated with repellent as well.
It's just smart to not do it, regardless of the material. Build a firewood shack next to the house with a gap from the back shack wall and the house like half a foot or a foot.
Rack up out the n the yard
Looks great!
Being from Maine/New Hampshire originally, I was pretty sure collecting rainwater was illegal without some sort of permit.
Just make sure that you are also going to do this project, that you check your local and state laws.
Needs a catch to divert and collect solids before it hits the barrels.
Aw, you're so kind! It's like you're building bird houses, but for mosquitos
What you wanna add is a first flush valve, idea being is when you haven’t had rain for a while soot, dirt and other small particles that can bypass the shield gets flushed out first before water diverts to the tanks
Its helpful to have your first barrel higher and have connected to second and third barrel. Cheapest is free or $5 food grade barrel and buy water spickets, screen for top of barrel for easy cleaning out. Black paint if barrels are lighter color.
Before building this, did you check with your local municipality and or your HOA to make sure that collecting rainwater is legal in your area ? In many areas it is not.
That is absolutely a rule that should be broken.
Australian here and it's just normal that homes have at least one small rain water tank, many homes have multiple large rainwater tanks and lots of people use rainwater exclusively in their homes.
HAHAH, "Land of the Free" :'D Yet can't even collect rainwater. I'm wheezing.
@@melpixie5480 I don't disagree with the sentiment, but in my municipality getting caught collecting rainwater can lead to thousands of dollars in fines. Likely because you're not paying taxes on that collected rainwater VS using municipal water from a hose.
Lol what an insane bylaw.
Ruined because some idiot "collected rainwater" by diverting a river onto his property to make a lake. Conspiracy theorists to this day still claim he was just collecting rain water.
You'll definitely need a particulate filter somewhere in the pvc pipes, who knows what can get in the gutters with the leaves
Stuff like bird and bugs.
Dude. This is how all rain barrels work.
Plumber that specialized in rain water collection systems here, its bad practice to reduce the size of your pipe, rather, just cut the pipe above the barrels and get a rectangular to 65 or 100mm pvc fitting and an elbow and that way you don't restrict flow, plus a very low chance for anything to catch and get stuck. Rainwater collection tanks generally have a filter above the tank, and the down pipe sits with a gap (big enough to unscrew and clean the filter) for debris / bugs like mosquitoes. Also I recommend not using a clear pipe as it can attract algee and get discoloration from the sun, rather connect them with a bit of polyethylene pipe 25mm should do the trick with a ball valve in between them to control filling individually or to control contamination and for maintenance with minimal waste. Also I did not see an overflow but I am sure it would have one. Lastly get a pump if you want to go all out 😁
Insurance companies will not pay out with firewood next to the building 😂😂😂
Yeah so we collect rain water (for window cleaning business) and we simply bought an old IBC tank (1000lts) for €50 and diverted one down pipe into it and add an over flow back to the drain, probably cost less then €80 all done, we then run the water through a resin filter. More then clean enough to drink (if you needed to) but doesn't really taste of anything.
Here in Ohio, we go to the local car wash and get blue 55gal drums. They give them to you free of charge. We use them for rain barrels and even boat docks as well.
You’ve built yourself a nice termite haven
Dude market place in Facebook someone is always selling rain barrels for around 20. I bought 3 that were used for vinegar. And all I had to do was powerwash them and then hook up the hardware like this guy did.
I had seven barrels, and I just put them on the ground, usext screens to keep out the debris. They were food grade juice barrels.
Just a tip, if you are looking for cheap 55 gallon HDPE barrels a great place to source them are local hydroponic grow stores... these barrels are used often in the industry for pre mixing liquid fertilizes and they often source them from food production plants, such as pickle or cornmeal plants, which can not be reused in food production due to hygiene rules, but are 100% fine for collecting rain water, so they tend to sell them for anywhere from 20 to 30 dollars a barrel, a total steal!
AS SOMEONE WHO HAS LIVED ON 'CATCHMENT WATER' FOR THE LAST 35YR, YOUR BARRELS ARE NOT FOR DRINKING FROM, IF THATS YOUR PLAN. THE SCREENS ONLY STOP LARGER LEAVES .. WHICH WILL BREAKDOWN DROP FILTERS ARE BEST
Make sure to empty those debris traps often or you'll have overflowing and clogged gutters
"Cut a section out which I DID not want to do!..."
"So I drilled out this section.." 😂😂😂😂😂
Well if you do a down chiffon drain before the barrels it help to get less debris into it or also some screen filter on the line much better just like that lesser barrel cleaning!!
On your pvc lines after the gutter cut out/diversion section you made you should add more filtration and use unions on that section of piping to be able to remove it and clean the filters. Will help keep more debris out.
Have a filter in between the down spout and the pvc leading to your rain barrell. Keeps the smaller debris away
I'm all for collecting rain water but remember, your asphalt shingle are made of petroleum...not even sure I would water my garden with it but nice construct...
So next time when you do this:
1 put the barrels high enough so you can put a watering can underneath it
2 make sure the drain pipe of the down pipe is sloping to prevent sand from cluttering it
3 Let one barrel flow over in the other on the top and not on the bottom. Now if 1 barrel leaks all three will empty.
I would make sure the quality of those rain barrels are legit. Sometimes plastic can leach into water and cheaper barrels might have bad lining.
Standing wood right next to your house is a great way of attracting insects.
If you can, insert a filter diverter up near the eaves of your roof where the downspout goes from being curved to straight down. There will be a break in the spout where the pieces join together. The diverter will capture and slow down the flow of water so any dirt, debris and junk from your shingles will get trapped in one section of the diverter, giving it time to sink to the bottom rather than continuing down the down spout to the barrels. Your barrels are going to overflow every rain so you have to make sure that water has somewhere else to go. (away from your foundation)
Half an inch of water falling on a 1,000 square-foot roof will collect 300 gallons of water. Twice what your barrels can hold.
I have a couple of stockings stretched over inlets and outlets - works as a good debris filter.
Awesome video. Thank uou
Connect the rain barrels on the top. So you fill them one by one and you have more pressure when you take water from the first.
Connect all your barrels together at the top part of the barrel to fill them all, put a spigot on them, and then use a small transfer pump to use on areas like ur garden
I recommend elevating the barrels at least the height of your watering can so you can pour directly into it if desired
Whoever your parents are taught, you a lot of very intelligent things and you should thank them hug them and kiss them and tell them. Thank you for giving me such a wonderful life.
Cant wait to have my own setup
In Germany, downspouts (on board with gardens) already have a little seesaw built in to diverter rainwater 😅
Such a smart idea!
Two items I'd like to offer
1: placing where you divert the water from the spout at least above the level of the top of the barrels would be better for filling
2: if you have asphalt tiles on your roof, look up rain barrels foul flush. The first 20ish minutes have any chemicals that have leeched to the surface of your roof and a foul flush helps divert away from the water collection barrels
Americans commenting like this is some amazing feet. In Australia, in most states, it is a condition of building a new house that you have a water tank that can hold a % of your roof catchment area. Most places on larger blocks have huge water storage tanks.
As a gutter guy of 25 years, we always give a price to come back and disconnect them when people get sick of them. These won’t work because he sat them right in the ground. Need a few blocks of height.