My compost bins have been slowly gaining a roof of corrugated plastic sheet and a gutter to collect the run-off. Today it was time to play with the 3d printer again, and produce this
It’s a downpipe rain collector/filter. (Hopefully) clean water comes off via the yellow hose, whilst excess and rubbish should get washed out of the bottom via a downpipe that I have yet to connect. The water from the yellow pipe is collected in this old 1250 litre (275 gallon) oil tank that I picked up from Freecycle.
At present it is supported on concrete blocks so the tap is high enough to get a bucket/watering can underneath. I don’t know if that will be stable enough, so I may need to change it later.
