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Installing a Rain Barrel for Beginners

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Rain barrels are a great way to improve the sustainability of your garden. Capturing rain not only helps you get through periods with no rain but helps save money on your water bill. Today I am going to go through how I installed my rain barrel system.

You can purchase rain barrels from most big box stores however most product reviews complain of leaks and poorly functional systems. For this reason I have decided to build my own.

Selecting a location for a rain barrel is important. What you want to think of is ease of access for use in your garden but the catchment area of the roof.

I selected a down spout in my back yard that has a catchment of about 1/3 of my roof. This should allow me to catch a good amount of water even if the rain is light.

0:05 Why I built a Rain Barrel
0:48 Building a Concrete Platform
2:32 Converting to Rain Barrels
4:02 Installing Taps and Connectors
5:26 Installing Barrel Connectors
7:14 Installing Downspout Diverter
0:26 Bug Netting
9:06 Winterizing Rain Barrels

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  6. Excellent video! Thanks for your help. With your advice and how you demonstrated your technique, I have also created my own rain harvesting here in upstate New York. I created a video that hopefully helps. Thanks again.

  7. Dear Sir,

    Thank you so much for this tutorial. This year we bought 2 rain water barrels from Home depot and followed your step by step instruction to connect them to our water spout and it works fabulously. My husband is a big fan of yours. God bless you and your family for sharing this knowledge.
    With best regards from Shreematha and Pacchaiyappan USA.

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