On 10 Sep, 15:49, Donwill wrote:
Stephen wrote:
Hello,

I read some old posts about connecting water butts and there seemed to
be some concern about the taps running too slowly.

Probably because they block up with crud off the roof, when they are
empty you should take the
*opportunity to flush and clean them out thoroughly, it's surprising how
fast the crud builds up.
Don

Not if you have something at the top of the pipe to stop the crud
coming through.

The tap on a butt is a couple of inches at least from the base of the
butt, it takes quite some time for crud to build up. None of our
gutter-filled butts has had a build up of crud for the ten years
they've been installed.

Mary