Re: gutter check
Originally Posted by
Dobra
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Back in the Eighties, we lived in a four bed bungalow and with the trees of the graveyard next door filling the gutters admirably. Luckily I could clean the from a pair of steps - four times a year Grrr.
At the time, I subscribed to an American magazine called Fine Homebuilding and a company in there advertised its Get Rid of Gutters product. So a roof with no gutters means rain drips off all roof edges. His product was alu and had six or more slats (a bit like a horizontal blind) and fixed about a few feet directly below the roof edge. The rain dropped on to these and atomised into a mist. I approached the company with a view of selling in Blighty, but he only sold in the US.
https://www.finehomebuilding.com
I can't see any details of that product on your link. However, I did do a bit of googling and found an alternative suggestion.
This was to do away with gutters completely and let the rainwater roll off the edge of the roof on to the ground. At ground level, a drainage channel was created and filled with pea gravel. The channel was laid out to capture the rainwater landing adjacent to the house and drain it away from the house foundations.
I suppose that, in the case of a single storey building, that could work unless there were high winds blowing the drips into the house walls and windows.