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Thread #144300   Message #3335789
Posted By: Penny S.
09-Apr-12 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Water feature runnel - quick make?
Subject: BS: Water feature runnel - quick make?
Well not really a water feature, but a way of catching water during our restrictions. When there is rain, water flows down the side of the house and drips off the window sill along the stones of the patio, to disappear between the flagstones and the house.

As a temporary measure, I would like to put some sort of runnel along the line where it falls and channel it into a container for keeping for watering. (The long term process is lifting the stones and re-laying them with a fall towards the buried water tank which is not yet in place.)

I've looked at guttering, but it doesn't look very wide. I was hoping for something about a foot wide, to make sure that the splashing and falling off vertical because of wind doesn't let it flow away uselessly. Is there anything that would do the job, that would rest on some sort of support so that water would flow into, say, a bucket, at one end?

Penny