Myrtle
Member
Hi, does anyone know whether the water from my water butt is still useable if it smells a bit rotten and has gone yellow (I seriously doubt it!). It was fine until the downpour we had last week so I thought something had fallen in and died, but after fishing around for ages I only came up with moss. I'm wondering if the low water + heat had cooked it somehow? Is there any way to prevent this happening again (even though I'm not really sure what has happened)? I have a lump of chicken wire stuffed into the top of the downpipe as I have sparrows nesting in the roof tiles and I didn't want them falling down the pipe, but is there some kind of filter that won't get totally clogged and need cleaning every hour?