Water cost

You can get reconditioned IBCs for half that, and they hold 1000 litres...
I'm starting to think of getting one since my water rates are going up all the time. I'm on a meter, and fairly careful what I use, but 'normal sized' water butts are soon emptied.

 

Just looked it up and around £3 for one cubic metre which includes disposal.

 

So that is about a pound for 300 litres.

 

We've been here before, haven't we ? Think ahead....there's only one way that the cost of services is going to go, not to mention shortages, hosepipe bans etc. If you've got the means and the land to bury a ???? litre tank to take rainfall from the house or garage roof, it'll be worth every penny in the future. On a smaller scale, the IBCs are better than nothing, especially a row of them with adaptable downpiping. Attractive but expensive water butts, well, it's down to personal choice, but in terms of quantity recuperated versus cost, I wouldn't bother

 

I've always gone for the attractive looking blue ones, they are easy to find amongst the greenery, none of that, now where did I leave my water butt.

 

I fill mine with a hose, might sound daft but tap water that has been allowed to stand for a while loses some of the chlorine and it warms up considerably at this time of the year.

Also I water pots with a watering can, so butts in various places stop a lot of walking.