Great product and the built in removable filter is an innovative addition. Very informative instructive video with easy to follow simple instructions. I have one installed and it works well.
Imagine if 100,000 people in a flood zone used these during times when drainage systems are under pressure during heavy rainfall. Empty when the drainage recovers, then keep full,, ready for drought season 🤔
Yeah, should be mandatory on new builds I think. And grants to encourage retrofit. In the meantime plenty of people will be fitting these on their own volition after experiencing a drought in a usually reasonably water secure area, England.
Make your own diverter from a small bucket, a 3/4 " fitting, 3 pieces of hose. Spray paint the outside of the bucket if you want....saves LOTS of $$$$.
Like the idea of the plug, but would prefer a tap type on/off at source or better, a floatation based switch. Looking for a solution to efficiently top the pond up, when evaporation from high winds or limited summer rainfall. So hose to ground (below ground).
Thank you so very much. I'm a new home owner, I need to install one, this video open me eye, can you please guide me where to order the barrel and the bit you used to save the water please ?
Patrick, Thanks for the enquiry. It should be 2 to 3 mm. Using this dimension it is far easier to lift out the filter basket as you have more room to swing it out when the top is off.
surely that inlet into the water butt is to low because once the level is up to that inlet the water will not fill past it to your max level? it will just back up into the pipe ? 🤔🤔
Its physics! The water will find its level with the bottom of the guttermate and the top of the waterbutt as these are at the same level. Similar to if you half fill a soft piece of pipe with liquid - the level will stay horizontal even if you move one end higher than the other. (Hope I explained that OK)
Based on typical instructions for fitting water butt diverters, the height of the inlet looked far too low. However, I can see the logic put forward by Caryn.
@@carynwakelin2494Maybe another way for us to understand it, is to consider when the butt is full to the top, disconnecting the hose from the diverter and holding the pipe up (same level as water in butt), the water will not drain the butt, until the hose is lowered a little? If so, this could be useful for me, because I put a diverter (not this type) and inlet lower than optimal to fill the butt. Now it seems that all I have to do is relocate the diverter to the maximum fill level of the butt. Of course, I shall avoid placing the diverter even higher, otherwise the butt will overflow.
If you put the pipe in the water butt too high (so that the pipe angles upwards) it will fill with fine sand/debris and not flow into the water butt easily. Having the pipe at its lowest when entering the water butt allows any fine debris to enter the water butt and settle at the bottom. In an ideal world the outlet on the guttermate should be horizontal like many other water harvesters, this would prevent the need for such a large fall in the pipe. Ive got to say though as a filter of moss it is superb and is very easy to clean unlike others. So much so that we have 2 of these.😊❤
@@waynestevens3662 if the gutter mate is above the water tank how the hell would the pipe be angled upwards ? watch your own vid the pipe you fitted will clog with debris because it sags below the inlet.. I'm nearly 60 and fitted a fair few gutter systems and drainage system gravity feed systems etc etc... water flows down the pipe
+Bobs Cats No need to panic! If the GutterMate Filter is full of debris (and it has not been cleaned out), the water will overflow out of the top of the of the GutterMate filter. This prevents the water filling the downpipe and subsequently flooding the guttering. Clever hey!
Bobs Cats, Thanks for the comment. No the great thing about the Gutter Mate Filter Diverter is it is open at the top of the filter. When and if the filter becomes blocked with moss the rain water overflows at the filter never going back up to the guttering other than if some how there was gross neglect. We have never had that situation to my knowledge.
For what purpose? If for filtering water ahead of delivering it to an underground storage tank or a soakaway, yes - this is a good product for those use cases.
Hi, sorry if yoy took it the wrong way , but i have fitted many in the last 20 years made buy Ward and all the holes are a lot higher , look after yourself mate have a laugh , life is too short,
Blimey someone pass me a rope :) Sorry fella but you need to re-shoot this vid with someone with a bit of enthusiasm, even if it's just acting. Not sure about the product, am sure it's great, but the vid is putting me off lol. It's a 16 min vid with 3 mins of content haha. Ah bugger it, I'm going to buy one! :D
You need to read the instructions Nigel, the maximum water level in the water butt is controlled by the line marked on the Gutter Mate body and its position controls the level in the water butt not as you think ie where the connection enters the water butt.