On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:00:32 +0000 (UTC), root
wrote:

Breifly, the next-door neighbour has plastic, square guttering on their side
of the two semi's. We have the original round guttering which feeds a cast iron
outlet into the downpipe. The gutter leaks badly where the square and round
types meet.
It turns out that while the new guttering does actually have a square-round
adapter, this has merely been placed into the downpipe's outlet with no sealant
or physical attachment - it just flaps around in the wind and rain.

While up t' laddter today I decided to see what remedies were possible. The
round outlet has two screw-holes in its base. The side that goes to the half-
round guttering is screwed onto the outlet, the side that goes to the adapter
isn't - it's just loose. This appears to be because of a mismatch in the
"systems": modern outlets have a rubber seal to make a watertight joint, the
original cast iron outlet expects the guttering to be screw in and doesn't
have a gasket.

Look at this from a pragmatic POV. Your neighbour relies on _your_
downpipe so he should ensure that _his_ guttering arrangement is
compatible with _yours_, especially as yours is the original.

Perhaps the NDN could contribute to the maintenance (e.g. painting;
unblocking) of the "common" parts of the arrangement.

I have a similar setup, but have (yet) had no complications.

--
Frank Erskine
Sunderland