http://www.buildabarrel.com Everything about rain barrels Sun, 01 May 2011 03:47:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have 12 rain barrels available for sale. $75 each. These rain barrels are built from mostly recycled materials in the true spirit of reuse and conservation. I use as many recycled materials as possible so our barrels will have some cosmetic imperfections. Some people wear our barrels like a ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2011/04/30/12-rain-barrels-available-for-sale/ The big news in Ottawa this week is the water use restrictions that have been placed on residents in Barrhaven, Manotick and other parts of Ottawa's south end. Due to a break in the Woodroffe Ave water main the amount of water flowing to these areas has been severely diminished. ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2011/04/30/city-of-ottawa-water-ban/ I 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. [ad#post] http://www.buildabarrel.com/2010/04/04/5-rain-barrels-available/ Its 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. ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2010/04/04/a-new-season-begins/ I get quite a few requests and info passed on to me from Hamilton. It must be a hotbed for water conservation. This news item was forwarded to me by Twisted Cistern, a new rain barrel builder in Hamilton, Ontario: "this past weekend the city of Hamilton offered subsidized barrels ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2009/07/04/twisted-cistern-hamilton-ontario/ A 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 ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2009/04/19/looking-for-organic-farms-and-rain-barrel-builders-in-calgary-ab/ Here 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 ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2009/04/07/some-lessons-learned/ As 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. [ad#post] http://www.buildabarrel.com/2009/04/06/rain-barrel-junior/ Spring 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 ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2009/03/28/kicking-off-the-2009-season/ A couple of months ago I had the chance to communicate with Judy Nosworthy of Yellow Dog Rain Barrels in Toronto. Her story is a great example of one person proving that helping the environment can be rewarding both personaly and financially. I asked her to write a short post ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2009/02/26/yellow-dog-rain-barrels-toronto/ Well 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 ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2008/11/10/goldfish-in-a-rain-barrel-update/  I 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 ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2008/07/21/goldfish-in-a-rain-barrel/ We 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 ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2008/07/15/why-i-am-beginning-to-hate-olives/ We 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 ... http://www.buildabarrel.com/2008/06/23/4-rain-barrels-for-sale/