"Neil" wrote in message
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kiticat wrote:
I guess it will be bath water next but last year when we tried we just
couldnt get enough suction on the hose and I'm loathe to pay out for a
gadget if we can figure out a way of jury-rigging it ourselves...

Sarah

We used our bath water for watering the garden all last year.

We syphoned the water out of the bath, which works fine if your bathroom
is on the first floor.

We put one end of the hose in the bath and attached the other to the
outside tap.

Turn the tap on for about 20 seconds or so and then turn it off. Your hose
is now full of water and will start pulling the bath water out as soon as
you take the hose off of the tap.

We kept a loop of hose outside the bathroom window, tied up with a bit of
nylon line ready to pull in after the kids had been dunked.

It was a bit fiddly at first but after a while, our 6 and 8 year old
operated the system perfectly and watered the garden every other
night(until the novelty wore off).

HTH

Cheers

Neil
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Hope you've got a non-return valve on the outside tap otherwise you risk
contamination of the mains supply with bacteria.
Dave