Rain Barrel But No Gutter
Certainly a gutter system is a natural way to harvest the rain that washes over the roof as it directs it into a concentrated location and fills your barrel quite quickly most barrels fill in less than 1 4 of rain.
Rain barrel but no gutter. Many people want to save rain water but do not have a gutter system. These diverters are not gutters. Insert the other end of the hole in the gutter. These diverters will also form concentrated streams of water that you can channel or collect.
I was wondering if a rainbarrel would really catch enough rain if you didn t use gutters. They are short sections of aluminum usually only several feet long that are fitted underneath the shingles of the roof to form a metal wall that diverts the rainwater away. Use a hose clamp to secure the hose to the overflow spout. You could instead attach the hose to a second rain barrel for a daisy chain of rain barrels.
The barrel would have to be open top and you d have to put it in a place where the downpour was greatest off the roof.