My hubby was busy on Sunday. He finally got our rain barrels put together and they look great. I was quite impressed with his handy work. We got the barrels from a bottling company for $5 each. He watched some "how to" videos online and researched other rain barrels sites and came up with this plan to design them.
The barrels are place up off the ground on cement blocks to help the water flow out. He put a flexible down spot coming off the gutter over to the barrel. 
At the end of the flexible gutter there is this, to trap any leaves or debris before it enters the barrel.
Then he attached the two barrels together so that when the first barrel fills up, it will overflow into the second barrel. 
There is a spigot at the bottom of both barrels. If they both get filled up, then there is an overflow hole on the second barrel that will route the water away from the house. The pipe goes over to my flowers. Very clever.
We got some rain on Monday and they worked great! They filled up very fast.This post is linked up to Life As Mom, Frugal Fridays.
