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Koolatron RBSS-55 55-Gallon Rain Barrel with Sandstone Finish
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$200.00
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| Part No: | B00267SQX8 |
| Manufacturer: | Koolatron |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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- Plastic rain barrel with stone look and durability
- UV resistant; will not chip, crack or fade with normal use
- Screen guard keeps leaves and debris out of barrel; drain plug for easy cleaning
- Threaded brass spigot for hose attachment and filling watering cans
- Measures 23-1/2 by 23-1/2 by 35-1/2 inches; weighs 18 pounds
This unique 55-gallon rain barrel from Kyoto® combines the contemporary aesthetic elegance of authentic stone with the enduring longevity of plastic. It comes complete with a corrosion-proof screen guard, child-proofing safety grid and easy-access brass tip. A drain plug is featured to allow for the release of water and sludge that may collect at the bottom, while a built-in threaded fitting lets you connect a soaker or garden hose.
| Great Barrel - Recommended to Friend | 2010-07-15 | 5 / 5 |
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| Very easy to install and includes an overfill connection to hook up a tube and redirect all extra water. The spigot is very secure and high quality, which I found an issue with other barrels. Aesthetically it's quite nice as well! |
| nice looking is about it. | 2010-03-15 | 1 / 5 |
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First, Ill say these look great. nice decorative rain barrels. Now the bad, the spout isnt low enough to get all the water out. The overflow hose is very non standard and I had to modify a washer/dryer hose to carry the water away in case of overflow. Why not just use a standard hose fitting? Finally, the real problem is that the bottom got ruined after 1 winter and now leaks water. I drained most of it out before it froze but apparently they are too weak in the bottom and the seam failed. I own 2 of these and both have the same problem. Ill try to fix it but for the high cost they should be built to withstand more since all they have to do is hold water and now mine don't.
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| Just what our mosquito farm needed! | 2010-01-07 | 4 / 5 |
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We have a medium-sized mosquito farm that we've been slowly expanding for about the last 16 years, ever since we moved into my mom's old house after she died. It started with a small coffee can, maxwell house, I think, that mom left out on the old concrete patio before she died. She'd been using it as an ashtray, but while she was in the nursing home for those long 18 months, rain after rain downfall raised the water to the top of the can, where the cigarette butts swam up like little larvae and floated off out of the can onto the patio. Over time the can, now free of mom's old butts, became a bird bath, and then a little nursery pool for the local mosquitoes. I distinctly remember looking for a place to put out my cigarette, and noticing all the little mosquito larvae swimming around in there one humid summer night when we were playing horseshoes. Well, those little larvae loved living in there so much that we slowly added a veritable treasure trove of new homes for the little guys to grow up in by simply not participating in the neighborhood recycling (a total rip-off as you have to buy the recycling can from our town, not to mention the fact that you have to walk it all the way down our driveway, which is not paved, to the highway, and then go back down there and PICK IT UP again, after they come dump it out). Anyway, after our main car died, we put it up on cinder blocks out in the yard, took the tires off and set them on the patio, then got distracted with something else. A while later, we discovered that the tires also made wonderful homes for our little critters, and they loved to swim around and grow up there until they were ready to eclose and fly away. Boy, they really loved swimming around in those puddles that accumulated inside the old tires on the patio. That's why we knew that this rain catcher was going to be such a wonderful addition to our little nursery on the patio. Now our medium-sized farm/nursery is able to grow with a big, deep, and new mosquito pond!!
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| Great Barrel | 2009-11-26 | 5 / 5 |
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| Happy I selected this Barrel as it doesn't look like a trash can under the downspout. It is very sturdy and is easy to set up. Has a nice bottom drain needed for freeze zones. I only wish they made a larger one, maybe 80-100 gallons. |
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I love the product. I worry about the winter and am planning on bringing it in before the big freeze.
The over flow could have been better thought out. I added a hose attachment. 55 gallons fills up fast around here. When I say fast I mean in the first hour when it rained hard. With the hose attachment I can put the overflow where I want it. |
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