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You can fit an overflow pipe to your butt somewhere near the top and then direct the overflow wherever you wish. It'll need to be wider than a hosepipe though, to accommodate peak flow.
We have this arrangement for a butt fed by a shed roof and it works well.
rhowe-
That's a really good idea.
The gutter on my shed is currently directly flowing into a butt as a temp bodge until I redo the down pipe gutting and add the proper diverter. The veg patch is next to it and previously the gutter pointed a ¼ of the way in.
You've got me thinking that a perforated overflow pipe could distribute the water more evenly down the patch.
I guess it's just how to do it neatly.
hugo7
Ah.
Didn’t realise that.
That probably isn’t going to work in this case as the butt is a fair distance from the down pipe, I’ll have to extend the filler pipe.
I might have to fit a separate overflow.
It’s actually my back neighbours’ roof - I’m using ‘their’ water with permission.