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Default How best to connect two water barrels?

In article , Ed
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The first water barrel (A) on my allotment is at the top of a slight
slope and is fed by rain water gathered from the roof of my shed. I
want to put in a second barrel (B) in a direct line (no bends involved)
from the first barrel and down a slight slope.


I have done exactly that.

? Or maybe there are other options that I
not thought of?


I just took the taps out and connected the two tap holes together using
plastic solvent-weld overflow pipe (21.5mm) and the 'straight tank
connector' www.bes.ltd.uk part no. 11937. Those fitted the tap hole in
my butts perfectly.

The advantage of this is that you drain from both tanks at the same
time, preventing one becoming stagnant, and you drain from the bottom.
The water finds its own level across both butts.

Then I inserted a T-piece in the cross-pipe between the barrels and
fitted one tap to that. But as you say you would prefer to drain from
barrel B, fit the T-piece and tap there.

Worked well for me.

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Mike Tomlinson