Repairing a split in plastic water butt

AL_n · 2011-08-19T09:44:58+00:00

If one finds a split in one of the standard modern plastic water butts, ubiquitous at B&Q and every garden centre, what is the best way to repair it? I suspect the plastic is polypropelene, but I may be wrong. I wondered about using a hot soldering iron to melt the plastc together, over the crack, or woild it be better to use that black mastic gutter sealant stuff sold in tubes for mastic-gun application? What do you think? Which would make the strongest most durable repair?TIA,Al

Aug 19, 2011 Last reply: 5 years ago 22 Replies

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Theo 5 years ago

The HoH webpage has the link but they're trying to do fancy rendering of it (in JS I assume):

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But it doesn't work. Which is about par for the course with HoH.

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Dave W 5 years ago

I'm not sure what's going on here. HoH shows Tigerton's posting with the video ready to play in a small area, dated 7 Aug 4:44. The posting on here on UK D-I-Y is dated 7 Aug 19:31. The video on HoH plays fine in my Firefox. If you got a rotating arrow, I imagine there was some slow link while HoH acquired the video, and the arrow would eventually get replaced by the video I saw.

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