I asked the guy who did my seamless gutters how the hard piped bubbler pots worked, and he likes them. Anyone have any experience with these? I can get the bubbler pot kits for about $20, just a little PVC pipe & cement and this should be a pretty inexpensive project. Any experience please share. Thanks in advance.
Bubbler pots for my seamless gutters
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What on earth is it ??
Basically--Water free falls into a debris filter attached to 4" PVC pipe that you run underground 8 feet or more away from your house. As water fills up in the bubbler pot (attached to the end length of your solid PVC pipe) the lid (on the bubbler pot) raises up to let water evenly flow over onto your lawn. Drainage slots in the bubbler pot lets standing water filter down into the ground. The solid drain cover will then drop down and seal out grass clippings and dirt. The kit I am looking at is at www.downspouts.com
How about a large cistern capable of holding several thousand gallons or more of captured rain water.
Might be handy during drought.
Emergency water supply in case of attack against infrastructures. Just boil or add iodine/whatever to kill minute critters.
Just for the cool factor of having the only cistern on the block.
Might be handy during drought.
Emergency water supply in case of attack against infrastructures. Just boil or add iodine/whatever to kill minute critters.
Just for the cool factor of having the only cistern on the block.
Well don't that beat all. I've never seen one of those. I put on new gutters last year and I have one of those large black fexible tubes attached to the rear downspout, so the water comes out around 10 feet from the house. I like this idea though.
Sounds like a great idea. Innovative solution for people with basements.
I'd give 'em a try if I had rain gutters, or a basement, or rain for that matter.
Got to chuckle at the web design though. They forgot to change the default title, so the title on the browser reads; "Welcome to Adobe Go Live 5". No big deal, as long as they make good pots who cares about web design.
I'd give 'em a try if I had rain gutters, or a basement, or rain for that matter.
Got to chuckle at the web design though. They forgot to change the default title, so the title on the browser reads; "Welcome to Adobe Go Live 5". No big deal, as long as they make good pots who cares about web design.
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I ordered two, I will post back after install and a couple of Michigan downpours. As to drought conditions--usually not an issue in my area, but if I lived in an arid climate I would consider for sure. In the doldrums of August I often disconnect and run my water into 2 55 gallon drums and water my garden in such a way. I just buy those musquito deleto tabs and toss in to keep the larve out. I noticed the adobe title as well--I'll let you guys know how the shipping and customer service was as well.
We used 6" gutters on our new house. We dug about a foot and connected all the pipe on one side of the house and ran it to the far end of the house about 25' away from the basement end (1/2 basement & 1/2 crawl space). It pops up there and spreads the water toward the edge of our land. All around the house was backfill to slope away from the house for a few feet as well.
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I've been considering these units. I might put one down by the curb, as I live uphill from my street, and want the water to come out far away. By using one of these items, I can set it up such that I don't have to break any curb to have water flow (more or less) into the street.
Is the filter at the inlet to the downspout, or does the debris flow all the way through the piping system?
JMH
Is the filter at the inlet to the downspout, or does the debris flow all the way through the piping system?
JMH
JHZR2
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nevermind, found the link
JHZR2
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I'm actually wondering aboutmaking a network of these things. Say,for example, I use multiple entry filters, and pipe the downspouts together to one bubbler pot far away.
They want a straight run, but Id guess that so long as the pipe has the right slope, the water will run fine...
Has anyone set up a network of undergorund water pipes to carry away gutter water? if I tee a number of gutter outlets into one main carry-away pipe, am I setting myself up for bigtime hassles???
Thanks!
JMH
They want a straight run, but Id guess that so long as the pipe has the right slope, the water will run fine...
Has anyone set up a network of undergorund water pipes to carry away gutter water? if I tee a number of gutter outlets into one main carry-away pipe, am I setting myself up for bigtime hassles???
Thanks!
JMH
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I have 16 years experience with this system on my house. I've had to dig them all up at least once to muck out the collected debris. Plus, all of the lids are cracked from being walked on.
That is similar to what we did, but we didn't use just one main pipe. There are 2-3 outlets tied into each pipe.
Hopefully they are making them better with better UV protected plastic. My gutter installer said they are real easy to clean, the top is supposed to just pop off for cleaning. Do you have the debris filter as well? I guess I am not surprised that after 16 years the plastic is cracking with all the sun exposure. Maybe I will paint them with some Rustoleum for plastic to help with UV protection and hopefully keep the plastic from getting too brittle. Thanks for the info. maybe it will help me prolong the lifetime of mine.
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