Archive for 'Rain Barrels General'
5 Rain barrels available
4 April 2010I just built some for a friend and decided to put together a few more and offer them to the public. If you are interested drop me a line.
A new season begins
4 April 2010Its seems that spring has come to Ottawa much earlier in in 2010. While I am not going to start complaining about the fantastic weather we have been experiencing over the past couple of months I am becoming a bit concerned about the overall lack of precipitation we have had. It could just be one [...]
Looking for organic farms and rain barrel builders in Calgary, AB
19 April 2009A couple of days ago I received a request from a teacher in Calgary who is looking for good learning experience for his students. While teaching in Guelph this teacher and his students went for a field trip where they took a tour of a working organic farm and built rain barrels on a volunteer [...]
Some lessons learned
7 April 2009Here are some things that I have learned over the last couple of years about building rain barrels:
Buy the gray barrels that contained olive, pickles etc. They are easier to work with and blend in with the landscape better then the white barrels.
Make sure that the lid screws on/off with relative ease.
Make sure that [...]
Rain Barrel Junior
6 April 2009As an experiment I have build a smaller rain barrel that I am calling rain barrels junior. This barrels holds about 60L of water and would fit in to tight spaces that our larger barrels can not. We are selling this one, if anybody is interested drop us a line.
Kicking off the 2009 season
28 March 2009Spring is finally here. I can tell because the requests for rain barrels and rain barrel information have been pouring in.
This year we have a few goals that we hope to accomplish:
We want to get instructions and maybe even a video up that will show how we go about building our rain barrels.
Add more [...]
Goldfish in a rain barrel - update
10 November 2008Well the goldfish experiment has been a great success! We decided that the fish would be better off as one big happy family in one big barrel so we transferred them from the smaller clean barrel. Not only have the fish been keeping the rain barrel free of mosquito larva they have almost all doubled [...]
Goldfish in a Rain Barrel
21 July 2008I have read a bit about people putting a 1″ gold fish in their rain barrels and having it grow to 6″ long. There is also the added bonus that they eat mosquito larvae as well! We don’t have mosquito problems with our barrels but the idea of having fish living in there was too [...]
Why I am beginning to hate olives
15 July 2008We have been getting more requests for rain barrels this summer then I would have ever expected. This is great! It feels good knowing that we have helped people conserve thousands of liters or water.
But with all of this progress there is a down side. I am really beginning to hate olives! You see, the [...]
4 rain barrels for sale
23 June 2008We have 4 rain barrels left over from this weekend that did not get picked up. They are available for $70 each
These rain barrels are built from reused 55 gallon (220 L) food grade olive barrels. We use new mesh screen to reinforce the water intake and have aluminum window screen on to to keep [...]
Rain barrel water is not for kiddy pools
13 September 2007While on a trip to Boston a couple of days ago, I found myself watching a show discussing the merits of rain barrels on the local news. The host discussed the many uses of the water you collect. Things like watering your lawn and plants, washing your car and filling a bird bath. The one [...]
Capacity, capacity, must have more capacity!!
11 August 2007This month has been a very dry month. We have have had lots of blue sky which has been great for just sitting in our yard but not so good for our gardens. If we hadn’t installed our 3 rain barrels we would have been using the hose long ago. But now as the [...]
Rain Barrels for Sale - Ottawa area - SOLD
31 July 2007We have 2 rain barrels available for sale right now that are left over from a batch that we built for some people.
220 L (55 Gallon) rain barrel. These barrels have been built using all recycled parts except for the brass spigot and the hardware for the overflow. This is your standard DIY rain barrel [...]
Rain barrel comparison - our review on why building a rain barrel is better then buying one
12 July 2007When we began our research into what types of barrel we could use for our home we found that there were many options available. Each option was evaluated against the following criteria:
Cost - Ultra expensive to downright dirt cheap.
Work involved - Ready out of the box or do it yourself (DIY)
Aesthetic - How good (or [...]
