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If you don’t have gutters on your home’s eaves, you’re missing a great opportunity to collect rainwater for your yard and garden. For every inch of rain that falls on it, the average roof collects more than 500 gallons of rainwater and sends it toward the eaves. Without gutters, it just drips off onto the foliage — or worse, onto the ground, eroding away your soil.
It’s not all that expensive to add gutters to a house; oftentimes, contractors can do the job for less than $500, and if you’re a do-it-yourselfer, it might not cost much more than a hundred bucks for the materials. Once the gutters and downspouts are in place, it’s a simple matter to siphon off the water into rain barrels or, even better, a cistern.
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I agree that rain barrels are a great product. I could not afford the $300 ones your site but I did get a rain barrel kit from Aquabarrel.com and barrel from Craigslist for $25.00