After cutting back yet more evil brambles around my half a shed, I've discovered I've got three waterbutts. Though one of them is covered over, the plot had been abandoned for at least a year, maybe two. What's the best way of getting rid of the stagnant water? Should I just let it run out over the brambly bit of the plot?
Yes ;D Three! Lucky you! I'd join them together in sequence. I'm waiting for a mate to find me another in a skip on his building site as I need more. they're the best thing on the plot and so useful :) Mine is a blue barrel not a proper butt but I cut a hole in it and fitted a £3 tap from Wilko :)
I think they were joined together in sequence. Found out last night that the plot - and the one next door - was previously worked by a couple in their eighties who had them for years, which explains all the mature fruit and the odd things I keep finding in/behind the half a shed! :D
Ooh Wardy, the tap sounds just what we are looking for at the moment. Was it easy to fit?
Caz.
If I remember the hardest part was dangling inside the barrel to fit half the tap onto the barrel and screw it home. I made my husband do it as I said I was too fat to fit in it ;D
Here is my butt. It's off a building site. I want some more!
Hi Wardy
Wish i had a shed like that well posh.
Blimey Wardy, that is one smart shed. :o Know what you mean about the dangling inside tho'.
Wardy!! You have my shed!! Same colour and all .... Give it back :o :o :o Lottie ;)
I don't dangle, I put the thing on its side and crawl in. It's a lot more comfortable.
RB Yes my OH and I realised that after he'd dangled ;D
Lotty We have the same shed! Ours was a second hand brown one :( I've not finished painting it yet but it will look lovely when it's finished. It's great inside as OH has put up shelves and even a worktop! :) I got a lovely two tier wooden trolley (barley twist legs) from the charity shop for a few quid which is useful especially for wheeling the cocktails round my lotty when we have guests don't you know ;D
LOL! Yes it's a lovely colour!! Mine painted on outside but nothing done on inside!! ::) Seems to be earwig hotel too....... Lottie ;D
The colour is LUPINE. It's a period colour used in conservation areas for sheds and fencing and stuff. Looks good I think. We have it at home on fences and stuff and it seems to suit the old brick walls etc :)
It's a colour the Victorians liked, but I can't remember what they called it.
Haha nice butt ;)
Anyone know where these blue barrels come from (or where I can get one)? Or what they used to be used for?