Mmmm What a Good Looking Butt. (Sankey Waterbutt 100L)

Member Name: Emmald

Product:	Sankey Waterbutt 100L
Date:	01/07/09 (165 review reads)
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Advantages: It saves precious rainwater

Disadvantages: None at all.

At the moment the plants are drinking the water as fast as we can give it to them, all of the vegetables at the allotment are well taken care of and we have managed to beg some larger plastic drums to catch any fresh rainwater.
Naturally we don't want to waste good water and the plants love fresh rainwater, our one tidy water butt which was bought at a household auction developed a small split so it was time to rethink if we were going to continue to collect that precious rainwater at home.

No matter what we always have to do a price check, so we paid a visit to our local B &Q and then hopped off to the garden centres.
Sankey have produced a good slimline water butt with 100 litre capacity. It has a strong plastic lid and at the bottom it has a good sized twist flow tap.
Both of us are used to the more traditional shaped water butt which does take up quite a considerable amount of space so we were quite taken with this new slimline version and it was on offer at just £17.99 too.

Sankey`s have produced the water butt in a strong green frost-proof plastic and because it is taller rather than wider it will fit into any corner of the garden with ease.
As we were looking at the equipment we noticed that you could buy a stand for the water butt, the stand looks like a plastic step stool and you need to make sure that you buy the slimline stand that matches the slimline water butt.
This raises the water butt and makes it easy to access the tap. The slimline stand is priced at £9.99.

We also needed a new rainwater diverter, this is a pipe that can be attached to your downpipe and it redirects the rainwater straight from the downpipe into the water butt. Plus if the butt gets full it then has an overflow system in place. The Sankey rainwater diverter is easy to fit to the downpipe and it still allows plenty of water to go down into the drain to keep it clean and clear.
The rainwater diverter cost us £13.

All in all we had spent a total of £41 for our new equipment but all being well that will last us for years to come.
It was quite interesting because when we got home I looked on the Internet to see how the prices compared to what we paid, if we had been prepared to wait and order the kit from Dobbies Garden suppliers then we would have paid just under £40 including P.P.
Not a great saving but very handy if you only have a small car and the water butt wouldn't fit into it .

Watering our gardens can use a massive amount of precious water so the more that we can conserve the better.
It is tempting to think that water butts look ugly in a very pretty garden but Sankey cater for everyone, they make traditional water butts and contemporary water butts in all different shapes colours and sizes.
The Sankey slimline water butt is up and running now and we thought that it was a good and a wise buy.

Summary: An affordable product that helps us not to waste water.