I've decided that my new house doesn't really need rain gutters. I'm in
Southern California, get very little rain except in the winter, have no
basement, and have substantial eaves draining water away from the exterior
walls. However... my front porch has a small roof of its own, probably no
more than four feet in depth. It's just shallow enough that people standing
on the porch waiting for the door to be opened are exposed somewhat to the
dripping off the porch roof. I don't really want to put a raingutter on my
porch roof, but I would like something to sort of divert the sheets of water
from the center front edge of the roof. Is there some sort of device that
would divert or funnel water rolling down the roof away from the center
edge, letting it pour off the left and right edges of the porch roof? And
if there is such a thing, what's it called?
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Jim Beaver