Good Ideas Rain Wizard 50-Gallon Rain Barrel with Diverter Kit - Oak

I have two of these barrels connected together for a 100gal reservoir for plant watering. The setup is great as the kit that comes with it allows you to connect it to your downspout, and if measured correctly, the barrel will fill without overflowing, as excess water backs up and flows back down the downspout. A really great setup and saves us from overtaxing our well during dry spells.

Easy installation, works well, looks good

Very easy to install. Looks like a real Barrel/

Shipping was as promised, arrived in great shape and was easy and simple to set up, now if it would only rain! Thanks Hayneedle!

These are a great addition to my greenhouse, they hold plenty of water for the plants inside and out

Easy to install, very nice looking, too!

Use for supplemental watering of our small garden. Hooked up pretty easily. One improvement would be a port in the top screen to insert the hose from the diverter. I made my own.

Iuse this not to collect water but to divert it. One of my gutter down spouts empties out into my driveway so I connect a garden hose to the spout and run the hose across my driveway so the water dumps into my yard instead of puddling up in the driveway. Worked great while it was warm out. One winter and the whole side split open. Keep in mind that I always leave the spout open so the water drains. I'm not sure how that much water could have froze inside to blow out the side completely. Guess it's not as durable as they say. Very disappointed

I bought two of these rain barrels and since then have learned that they have three serious design flaws: 1. There is no easy way to filter debris from the water coming from the roof. 2. Although it looks like a lid, the top is part of the molded barrel and cannot be lifted. As a result, you cannot dunk a bucket in to fill it. You can only use the faucet. 3. The water just dribbles out of the faucet. Way too slow to be practical. After considerable expense for the purchase and installation of these wine barrels, I consider them to be practically useless.

Both the picture and the item description fail to reveal that the rain barrel is not the standard model. It has been over a week since I called Hayneedle Customer Service to inquire why the barrel I received is different from the standard one sold every where else and why the instructions with the barrel refer to a different model than what I got. Despite Customer Service promising to follow up on this and call me back, over a week has passed and no phone call. Good Ideas HAS replied to my inquiry to them to explain that they redesigned this particular barrel to work with the overflow valve to turn off when the barrel is full. In keeping with truth in advertising, I would have liked Hayneedle's picture and description to have revealed that the model is different from the norm and why. In addition to fully describing the item, Hayneedle should do better in the Customer Service Department.