Butt owners - do you have a stand

[martini]

Have just bought some water butts. Do I need to shell out for the quite expensive stands or will a few bricks piled up do?

[FrayedKnot]

Ours is on an upturned milk crate - installed by previous owners, not too much on view - does the job lovely

[Ellaroo]

Bricks piled up will do nicely (and go further in publicly displaying your eco-credentials ), but make sure you measure them for height against your watering can, otherwise you can get achey arms or have to do tricky angling.

[Kittypickle]

Think ours is couple of bricks and a concrete slab. It's tucked away where no one can see it though.

[martini]

Thanks all - milk crate is good - trying to think how I can sneakily steal one from the milkman! AFter thinking I didn't need stands as seem to have loads of old bricks around garden, I piled them up for Butt 1 and ran out.

As have gone for complex 3 butt arrangement (slimline ones to avoid blocking up my side passage) - I may have to resort to stands after all.