You are kidding me.
If you see a chain dangling from a house’s gutter you might just assume it is a quirky piece garden decor, but they actually serve an important purpose.
With April showers in full force, many will be using the unusual deice in their outdoor spaces.
Rain chains can help you make your garden as efficient and self-sustaining as possible.
Not only can they help your environmental efforts, but they can also prepare you for a drought.
So, with a hosepipe ban not off the table for this summer , despite the wettest winter on record, a rain chain could be a savvy investment for any serious gardeners.
A hosepipe ban? A fucking hosepipe ban? Apart from a few dry weeks last June, it’s been pissing down incessantly for eighteen fucking months. I have struggled to keep dry kit and my bikes need constant cleaning to keep the muck off them. A fucking hosepipe ban? You are pissing down my leg and telling me its raining – which, on this occasion it is.
The last new reservoir was built in 1991, since then there is an extra 10-20 million people in the uk.
Extra demand + no increase in supply = shortages.
Peter North of EUReferendum blog wrote about this years ago. Apparently we were in the process of expanding existing reservoir capacity and had started work on new reservoirs. The EU told us to stop that, reason given that how can we have water shortages if there is no shortage of water. I have tried to find the actual article but have had no luck.
But, but, its the Wobal Glorming! CLimate change! We’re doomed I tells ya, Doooooooooommmmmeeedd!!!
Honestly it doesn’t surprise me. Most large businesses these days can’t organise a piss up in a brothel. Too busy with diversity, greenwashing and pride crap. Doesn’t leave them with any time for the minor business of actually delivering a good service.
Actually Thames Water have been trying to get permission for a new reservoir since 2007
A female friend of mine (a very savvy business woman but a bit of an old hippy nonetheless) built a new house from scratch, and she wanted these rain chains, having seen them somewhere and thought they looked ‘nice’ instead of the usual plastic downpipes. Her builder tried to tell her it was a stupid idea (we are talking Wales, where it rains a LOT) but she had to have them, so ignored him. Cue 6 months later, when the side of her house was green from all the water cascading down it, and the damp was showing up inside as well. The chains could cope with a bit of light drizzle, but as soon as it rained at all heavily, the water just gushed out of the guttering and overwhelmed them and ran down the wall instead, and didn’t go into the drain but ran all over the paths etc next to the house. When there was frost it was like a skating rink. To her credit she admitted she was wrong, called the builder back, and plastic downpipes were fitted instead.
We have water butts, big plastic tanks that collect water from the fall pipe and overflow down the drain when they get full. How does letting the water run down a chain improve on that?
Yeah, we all know it only takes a couple of days of sunshine to bring in a hosepipe ban. Something to do with what Tigggger said above.
My first question, was what on Earth is a rain chain? I’ve never heard of them, and after looking at the article, I don’t think I’ll be adding one to my shopping list
The trick is to have one of those rainwater collection barrels, but whenever it gets towards empty, stick a garden hose in the end of it at 3AM and refill it.
Not like the water plod can tell the difference, is it?
The water plod can tell the difference if you have a smart meter.
I had a leak in my house- about a gallon per hour. It happened for about a week before I got it fixed. About a week later, a letter arrived from the water co telling me I had a leak somewhere on my property.