I saw this in action just two days ago. My father had put up a building on a hill side. When he built it, he had about a three foot edge on the back side of the building before the hill dropped off. But he neglected to put up a gutter. It’s now only five years later and already the runoff from the roof has completely eroded the hill side away to the point where the ledge of the hillside is now beneath the building at some points.
I knew it. As soon as I wrote that I knew someone would jump one it. I let it go though as it got the point across.
Of course they do, Six Packs!
I’ll see your pine needles and raise you some helecopters off of maple trees. If you wait long enough to clean your gutters, you can actually have little maple trees growing in them. I know. I’ve seen it. :smack:
helicopters, of course… :wally
If you’re travelling with your wolverine, it should be securely packed, of course.
Oh Oh Oh Oh, I’ve always wanted to be the leader of the pack. Even though I didn’t get in before Mr Blue Sky and why does he need gutters anyway? BTW you can get guttagaurds for wayyyyyy less than what the guys on tv advertise, thousands less.
Oh Oh Oh Oh, I’ve always wanted to be the leader of the pack. Even though I didn’t get in before Mr Blue Sky and why does he need gutters anyway? BTW you can get guttaguards for wayyyyyy less than what the guys on tv advertise, thousands less.
Their real purpose is to give squirrels a platform to stand on while they chew their way into the attic.
I’d like to find the clown who installed the gutters on my house without aluminum fascia. I had to remove 3 adult squirrels and 6 baby squirrels. Some of whom ended up down my chimney.
Aside from preventing the runnoff eroding the area around your roof (which by the way around here seems to be called guttering - why they name it after what you don’t have I’m not sure) we have gutters to collect the rainwater and direct it to the water tanks. So we’ve got something to drink later. If you’re really upclass you might have a filter to throw away the first few litres so you wash the roof a bit first.
For those of you who don’t need to do this, I’ve seen a gutter replacement system that is designed to break up the water flow and spray it away from the house, so it doesn’t trench the ground. It’s also supposed to be easy to clean or self cleaning, as well as handle snow and ice better. Seemed like a waste of water to me, though. And I’m not likely to run into the snow problem here.
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My apartment building didn’t have a gutter for part of last summer. The problem there was that there was no overhang on the roof. So when it rained a sheet of water ran down the side of the building. In the middle of this sheet was sombody’s window. Sometimes it was really hot so he had his window open and then it started raining and an incredible ammount of water got in his apartment. Even with the windo closed water got in though.
Oh yeah, his apartment was right above mine so the water came into my bedroom after being filtered by his floor.
I find this confusing; do you not collect any run-off from your roof into gullies placed at the bottom of downpipes and then distribute this into a storm sewer system or a soakaway? You just let it run off the side of the building, causing pooling and ponding around the perimeter? Is this at all common?
Quite correct; you cannot now run a storm water gully into a mains foul line (or a septic tank arrangement) - both are now considered two completely separate systems. The Water Service is trying hard to do away with all runs of combined sewers. BTW, it isn’t necessary to put a storm water soakaway in for all new houses, only for those which cannot be easily connected to the mains storm system (generally in rural areas).
This is a joke, right? There are many systems that can collect rainwater for future use (*greywater recycling * it is called here). But they are all for non-potable water uses - flushing toilets and the like. Certainly not for consumption.