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Default Rain water defelecter to clip to guttering?

On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:00:42 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

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David writes:
Just sitting watching a thunder storm and the water is coming off our
roof so fast that it is flying straight over the guttering and into the
rather startled bamboo plant.

Made me wonder if there is something ready made to clip to the edge of
half round guttering to deflect water back into it.

No rain for a month and then it all comes at once.

Oh, the main roof drains onto the sloping roof over the extension and
then into the guttering around that.


I have a high level downspout that discharges onto a low level roof and
in heavy rain, that did overshoot the low level gutter and end up
running down the wall.

I took a 2' offcut of gutter and cut it lengthwise along the middle
forming two quarter rounds. One I glued as an upstand to the inside
surface of the outer edge of the existing guttering (using PVC solvent
weld) with the top edge curved towards the roof, and the other piece is
resting under the tile edge and felt curving down into the gutter
(acting like a felt support tray - I'll remove it when I get around to
fitting proper felt support trays along that roofline).

That has worked well for ~30 years now.

This solution was for just a short section of the gutter. If you have
water overshooting for much of the length, then the gutter is probably
positioned wrongly with respect to the tile edge.


Sounds like a plan.

The overshoot is just for the short length below the downspout from the
main roof, and only in severe weather.


Cheers


Dave R


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