On Oct 14, 12:06*pm, RicodJour wrote:
On Oct 14, 10:17 am, DerbyDad03 wrote:





As I was driving to work today I noticed a strange gutter
configuration on a house.

I'll classify the house as "high end"...several thousand square feet,
all brick, nice dormers, landscaping, etc. It was a really nice house
in an expensive neighborhood. I couldn't tell just by driving by if it
was fairly new or decades old.

The section of the house that contained the garage and rooms above was
at a right angle to main house. On the side of that garage section
there was a single window on the second floor, right in the middle.

There was a section of gutter and a downspout on the right and left of
the window, but over the window itself the roof extended out creating
a slight overhang. There was no gutter over the window.

It looked OK...nice and symmetrical - even lengths of gutters and a
downspout at the ends away from the window.

However, I have to question the decision to leave a ~4' section of
roof without a gutter. The sides of the main house also has windows on
the second floor, but on that section they use a single length of
gutter for the entire side.

Would you, for apparently aesthetics reasons only, leave a section of
a roof without gutters?

(No, at this point, I do not know what is below the section without
the gutter, i.e. blacktop, bushes, etc. I'll have to see if I can find
out without getting arrested for trespassing.)

I'm assuming by your surprise, and reading between the lines, that the
window in question is in a dormer of some sort, and that it has a flat
roof, and not a gable, pitched in the same direction as the main roof.

The question is - how much roof is above that window, and have
diverters been installed to direct the water towards either side?

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Either I should have been clearer or you shouldn't have read between
the lines.

Why would I have been suprised by a roof/gutter system that directed
water into the gutters as opposed to letting it flow off the roof over
the window and onto the ground? We see those types of systems
everyday, depending on the style of roof, so there would have been no
reason for me to post about it.

As a visual, pretend that the "garage" in this picture is 2 stories
and that the window is on the second floor.

http://www.thecountrytree.com/pictures/gable280.gif

Now pretend that there is a gutter and downspout on each side of the
window, but not over the window. Over the window, the roof is extended
to at least the same plane as the front of the gutters so water
wouldn't be running down the front of the window itself, but would
flow out and down.

My only point is that they installed gutters everywhere else on the
house but chose not to use gutters over this window for (I assume)
aesthetic purposes. Why else would they have gone through the trouble
of the extra downspout and extended roof if it wasn't just for looks?

Serious question: If it wasn't for aesthetics, can you think of a
reason why they would want the water from over that window to reach
the ground directly?