I’m afraid that the eavestrough installed on my house is too small. it’s 4″ and I’m wondering if it should have been 5″. With the steel roof, and intersecting valleys, and all the rain we have been getting (around an inch a day the last few days) sometimes the water coming off the second storey down the pipe and exiting onto the porch roof, well, sometimes it overshoots the trough.
Solutions I’ve thought of would be a hunk of tin sticking up from the eavestrough to deflect the rain; extending the downspout with perforated pipe to stretch the area when it dumps; calling the eavestrough guy back and telling him he undersized it; just living with it.
Sometimes I think I should have been more in the face of the guys doing the work. Just because they’re the experts, doesn’t always make them right.
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A deflector/diverter is a good place to start..
A 5" ain't likely to help..slow the velocity and you should be all set.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations.
Give me your location, how many sq ft of roof are dumping in the gutter, size of the leaders and how many and I'll tell you if it's undersized.
More importantly, was the roof framing designed to carry the load of livestock?
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
"DO IT RIGHT, DO IT ONCE"
Edited 5/26/2004 1:39 pm ET by JAYBIRD