Keeping My Fingers Crossed - Roof Drainaged
Alright here in Perth we haven't had much rain this year to date. But the few heavy down pours that we have had has over flowed the guttering and flooded back inside the house, because the front of the gutter is higher than the back. Its a new house that I'm building. The main area of concern is an alcove which has a 3m long section of guttering into which all the water from a 12m wide x 8m high/deep (bit of a diamond shape between two valley's) roof area flows into.
With the third flooding (this last Saturday) it showed the leaf litter, with what there was of it, that it was right up and over the top of the guttering.
I hate guttering. What do I do... rip it all off... persist with it... put holes in the front of the guttering...:rolleyes: seems a possiblity, just drill holes or slots, so I thought about it over night. Rain was forecasted for Sunday.
I decided on slots. So bright and early Sunday morning I set up and cut horizontal slots 40mm x 8mm every 200mm in this 3m section of guttering. We had a heavy down pour Sunday evening. The rain water gushed from the slots, so it appears to have worked.
With hindsight I should have went for guttering where the front is smaller than the back or the stuff that has slots pressed/cut in it.
