Use shovels to dig out the soil as needed.
Connecting rain barrel to gutters.
The threaded end will stick outside the panel.
Choose your rain barrel and assemble it.
Turn the barrels upside down to.
If there is a heavy downpour and your first rain barrel is filled up the excess water from the first barrel will flow to the second barrel through your hose connections.
Level the ground under the downspout to make room for the rain barrel.
Stack bricks concrete blocks or landscaping timbers to form a stable platform at least 1 foot high to.
You can use a screw to attach onto the overflow fitting the threaded end of the hose.
Now attach the unfinished end of the hose to the filling hole of the second barrel.
Place a carpenter s level on.
Next create a level surface for the barrel by digging a couple inches into the ground and then laying down gravel or pavers.
Place the rain barrel under the downspout checking that it is level.
Insert the male threaded end of a pvc connector that has a non threaded female end.
Measure and cut the two pvc pipe pieces to create the w shape pipe system we made here.
How to connect a rain barrel to a downspout.
How to connect a single rain barrel to a downspout.
Start by thoroughly rinsing the barrels inside and out image 1.
If your barrel isn t already equipped with a spigot attach one by drilling a 15 16 inch hole about two inches from the bottom of the barrel where you can install a inch hose spigot.
Assemble based on the instructions but it may include installing a hose connector or spigot and.
Following the design of connecting pipes for tandem barrels we drilled a 13 16th inch hole in the flat panel at the end of the gutter fairly close to the bottom of it.