Containing rainwater

Jeekinz · 05-11-2007, 01:56 PM

I'm looking for materials/ideas to store rainwater in plastic drums. My idea was to use the contained water for the lawn and plant watering when needed. I was thinking using a 50psi. pump attached via. quick connect to 3-50 gal. plastic drums placed under my deck.

Any ideas?

handy man88 · 05-13-2007, 01:03 AM

You can actually buys these, not pressurized though, although you can modify them. Are you considering only things that are near free?

http://www.cleanairgardening.com/rainbarrels.html

Jeekinz · 05-15-2007, 10:21 AM

Hey, thanks for the link! I got some good ideas from that site.

I wasn't looking to pressurize the tank itself, but use a small 110v. pump that I could use to run a sprinkler. Between the outlet on the tank and the inlet on the pump I would install a quick connect coupling. Then the pump wouldn't be out in the elements.