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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: herbiefatboy on February 27, 2007, 04:42:58 pm

Title: water butts
Post by: herbiefatboy on February 27, 2007, 04:42:58 pm

this might be a silly question but here goes can your store your purified water outside in butts if they have lids on or not? any help would be great

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: Tosh on February 27, 2007, 04:45:00 pm

Herbie,

Yes; I do and have done for 18 months.

I use two 210 litre water butts, side by side, sat on top of a wooden platform I built from some bits of two-by-four.

No problems.

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: matt on February 27, 2007, 04:53:26 pm

yes i do

with a lid on

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: herbiefatboy on February 27, 2007, 06:37:30 pm

oh  great

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: JM123 on February 27, 2007, 06:40:17 pm

why not just use an ibc?

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: Tosh on February 28, 2007, 03:11:26 pm

Quote from: JM123 on February 27, 2007, 06:40:17 pm

why not just use an ibc?

They don't sell 'em in B & Q.

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: AuRavelling79 on February 28, 2007, 04:36:59 pm

I have a lidded water butt which I have wrapped in cling-film (the lid) to stop spiders and insects getting inside through the air vents..

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: JM123 on February 28, 2007, 11:56:09 pm

try a builders yard

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: Ian_Giles on March 01, 2007, 06:52:36 am

Mine is an IBC tank, cost me nowt ;)

Shop around, ask at various factories, ie, soft drinks manufacurers, paper mills and so on, often these tanks are used just once to deliver various chemicals in and are then surplus to requirements, you can pick them up for pennies sometimes.

Ian

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: Davew on March 01, 2007, 09:02:14 pm

Some firms actually pay to have them removed!

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: S.Carpenter on March 02, 2007, 07:28:35 am

tried 6 different factories with IBCs, they all send them back...  :(

Title: Re: water butts
Post by: squeaky-clean 1 on March 02, 2007, 07:35:30 am

ibc on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=010&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=200084729068&rd=1&rd=1