The Advisor Advises

I bought myself a rainbarrel today. 200L of environmentally friendliness. I picked up a lovely blue barrel from Brian at the Edmonton Rain Barrel Project, it's a barrel that was previously used in the food industry (the word MALT is scrawled on the back in black marker). It looks cool on the little wooden platform Dad and I built out of scraps of pressure treated 2x4s and 1x6s. The fun part was the redirecting of the eavestrough, since the original direction was through the wall of the attached garage, and then through the wall into the basement and into a pipe leading to the storm sewer (I presume). Now I have some sealing and caulking to do, but the barrel looks real sweet.