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Default Rain drainage solution

On Jul 8, 12:49*pm, cubby wrote:
On Jul 8, 9:54*am, "hr(bob) "
wrote:

On Jul 8, 8:55*am, Ed wrote:


Here is a possible solution. Instead of a gutter, consider a
dispersion system to distribute the water over a wider area so it is
less likely to splash under your doors. One such product is
Rainhandler (www.rainhandler.com). I have never used this product but
it would seem to help in your situation.


But the water will still all end up outside his garage doors, the OP
wants to keep the water away from the garage doors.


Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. *As ever, feedback from this
group has given me a much clearer view of what I need to do. *I plan
to go with a small overhang right above the garage doors. *Trick will
be to get it positioned right and with the right measurements to catch
90% of the rain. *Guttering off to the left side will be easy from
there.

Much appreciated all.


May I suggest that you may want to run the down piping inside the wall
if the interior is not yet finished. If you ran two two inch lines in
parallel down to a common line just inside the garage area it could
then slope to the left hand corner to be routed into the storm water
drain line. If the water is allowed to fall down to the new overhang
it is going to splash out into the driveway were it will freeze in the
colder nighttime temperatures.
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Tom Horne