Strata 100L Black Slimline Water Butt Set with Stand, Lid and Tap - Durable Rainwater Collector for Garden, Outdoor Use, and Eco-Friendly Water Storage

This arrived really quickly, very easy to assemble. Lovely size as its slim line. There is a little bit of leakage if you don’t keep an eye on how much water goes in but overall good quality. I’m impressed with the price and so I ordered another which is due to arrive for placement in another part of my property.

Ideal where there’s not a lot of room. Easy to install decent quality does the job

Nice sized water butt for watering the garden and saves me running hose pipes from the front of the house, or the expense of having a tap put at the back of the house.I actually bought a different diverter kit as I wanted it to blend in with my square downpipe, so won't review that. But the water butt itself looks nice and, being slim, it fits out of the way rather than being an eyesore on the patio. It did arrive rather dented thanks to the delivery driver throwing it over the gate! But the dents did pop out easily.The stand fits together easily. It feels a bit flimsy but I'm sure it will be fine when the water butt is filled.The reason I knocked it down to 4 stars is due to the tap which screws in upside down, so the threads haven't been made correctly. The photo shows how it screws in - completely unusable. I have tried to solve it by using the rubber washer that came with the diverter set and it is now facing downwards, so fingers crossed it won't leak!

Does the job of collecting water

I bought as it is a great price and I wanted to be greener and save on metered water when watering the garden. Naively I assumed, having last seen a water butt as a child in the 1970s, that it would fill up when it rained without being connected to anything. It was therfore a surprise having not read the description fully that you need to connect it to a downpipe and to do that you need to slice through the downpipe, insert the connector and Bob's your uncle. When it arrived and I realised this I looked on YouTube for installation advice and it looked easy. Armed with my branch cutting knife (that I had not used before as I did not have a hacksaw) and my pink women's drill, I could not get the bracket screws out of the downpipe which seemed welded in so decided to cut in situ. Whilst I eventually managed to do this without injury the back part had a big ragged segment after my efforts so was a bit of a palava to get the segment cut straight. I attached it and it seemed ok and after some rain overnight went to check on it paranoid that it had pulled the guttering down. It hadn't and the butt was full but leaking slightly from the hose connections so I went around these with some duct tape and am now surprised at how good it is. It doesn't bulge when full, the warter sinply goes back down the downpipe into the drain rather than into the full butt. The stand does seem a bit flimsy but is holding the full barrel fine and there is no more leaking. I filled up my watering can 5 times today and took the top off the barrel to see how much water is left and still 2/3s full so very impressed and so very glad I persevered with it.

Perfect is that thank goodness

I am very pleased with this water butt, in fact, so pleased that I bought a second one. They're sturdy and, because they're compact, they can be positioned on a garden path and still allow enough room to get past. However, I had a few challenges when installing them, as follows:- The holes for the tap were very crudely drilled, on both water butts. They were off-center and a lot of plastic swarf was left behind, which I cleared away using a chisel and a round-backed file.- On both butts, when the tap was screwed in fully so that it didn't leak, it wasn't pointing downwards. This was solved on one of the water butts by fitting an additional washer and some plumber's tape (I think it's called PTFE tape). On the other butt, I just fitted a length of hosepipe, which allows containers taller than the height of the tap to be filled, and could be an advantage.- I cut the whole for the connector pipe, without a special hole cutter, by drilling a series of smaller holes in a circle and then filing the hole to the required dimensions (again with a round-backed file). However, I had to use some sealant in order to get a perfect seal, which might not have been necessary if I'd bought a whole cutter.-It would have been useful to have had a cut-away section on the side of the butt opposite the tap, in addition to those on the sides adjacent to the tap, to allow greater flexibility when positioning the butt in relation to the downpipe.Overall, this butt is good value and is recommended.

Good quality