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Guys
Fill the water butts up now and buy a couple of extra ones. Should be good for a couple of months if you take it steady. Fill them quick before the ban comes in.
Kids pool is another option but they may get a bit upset watching it go down every week until it's empty.
If the worst happens you can always buy it from Aldi by the litre...
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15th May 2006 8:49 pm
lee01277
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Check the small print of the hose ban. There was some "expert" on tv a few days ago saying that......
You can't use a hose as a hose, but there is nothing stopping you filling up the bucket from the hose, because in effect, all you are doing is extending the house plumbing ...
Don't know about specific "car washing" bans though.. you can still take the car to a car wash, as its "business use" ................Somewhere in-between my old D3 and what's to come next .........
15th May 2006 8:50 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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I gather Water butts are fetching stupid amounts of money down south? Is demand out stripping supply?
15th May 2006 9:05 pm
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Gareth wrote:
I gather Water butts are fetching stupid amounts of money down south? Is demand out stripping supply?
I passed a place on the A4 just down the road from Heathrow, it's called 'Spearmint' something or other - Had a sign outside saying 'Big Butts for rent'
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I gather Water butts are fetching stupid amounts of money down south? Is demand out stripping supply?
Yes, all the garden centres are sold out of water butts around here. I went into Wilkinsons on Sunday, as I was told they had water butts on offer, but they had sold out too.Matt
15th May 2006 9:11 pm
Ken
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My water butt is called a swimingpool. Now use this water to clean the car Nah stay in heated pool sipping beer car can be dirty its a Land Rover anyway
15th May 2006 9:18 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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DG, If I were you, I would not go into Mr Spearmint's place and ask for a 'Big Butt for me to fill in my garden' I think you could get seriously ejected
15th May 2006 9:19 pm
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15th May 2006 9:22 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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Don't worry, just come up here, we have plenty of water to go round 8) I just hope it stops raining before my round of golf tomorrow.
Great weather for
15th May 2006 9:25 pm
SN
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Gareth, so when exactly did we last have a hosepipe ban up north? Coz I can't remember ever!
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15th May 2006 11:42 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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Errrr 1996. I know because it was the year my youngest son was born. August 1996. SWMBO wanted a water birth at home, so we had a 850 gallon birthing pool in the front room!
Now in HAS to be emptied somehow, so it came with a sump pump and a length of hose. We had the greenest front garden for miles around
15th May 2006 11:51 pm
SN
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Well there you go - only 10 years ago.
That birthing pool sounds like the 7000 litre pool I had in the back garden a couple of years ago - took 4 hours to fill - and nearly as long to empty - it was like a biblical bl**dy flood when I got fed up emptying it with a pump and bucket and just let one side down! Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
16th May 2006 12:04 am
Gareth Site Moderator
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I had to have the floor supported from the cellar to hold the weight! It took 6 hours to fill with warm water.
When it was done with, it took several hours to empty via pump and hose out of the front door.
I'm getting a water butt this week, but then it has got to rain to fill it up, and we've hardly had any. Near Oxford is the furthest place away from any coast, so we probably get less rain around here.
Matt - you'd be surprised. I've got 5 water butts around the place (mostly made from industrial fruit juice containers) and they fill really quickly even with light rain, given a decent-sized roof area. I'm not far from Oxford, so our rainfall must be similar to yours.
I have a hose attachment with a filter that fits to the tap on the butt and this feeds my pressure washer. One water butt will wash the D3, the Mini and clean a large area of drive with water to spare, so it's pretty efficient.
I'm just longing for some secret policeman from Thames Water to turn up while I'm doing it so I can have the pleasure of putting two fingers up at him but, sadly, they are obiously all far too busy looking for leaks...
I may be wrong but I think there may be something in the small print that says you are not allowed to run a hose from a butt when there is a hose pipe ban could be due to them thinking that all water is theirs.Zermatt silver 06 reg.
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