We bought two of these barrels for our backyard when we were having gutters installed. They are beautiful and were easy for the gutter team to set up under the down spouts. they help with routing water away from the house (have the hose connected and drain them away from the foundation) as well as helping with the fact that we have no water spout in the backyard. We can now water our grass in the backyard with out using city water (saves ). I get tons of compliments on them.