Currently my house and party wall neighbours gutters slope toward each
other with a shared downpipe in the middle. I am splitting the
gutters, so mine slopes away from the neighbour to a new downpipe just
for me. Neighbour will have an end stop on and the existing downpipe
will be just for her.
But, where there is a break in the gutters, I need to prevent drips
running down the wall. Any ideas ?
e.g. join the gutters with some sort of offset height union, fix some
lead in some way to divert the water ?
Is there a standard way of joining gutters where the height changes ?
Cheers,
Simon.

sm_jamieson wrote:
Currently my house and party wall neighbours gutters slope toward each
other with a shared downpipe in the middle. I am splitting the
gutters, so mine slopes away from the neighbour to a new downpipe just
for me. Neighbour will have an end stop on and the existing downpipe
will be just for her.
But, where there is a break in the gutters, I need to prevent drips
running down the wall. Any ideas ?
e.g. join the gutters with some sort of offset height union, fix some
lead in some way to divert the water ?
Is there a standard way of joining gutters where the height changes ?
Cheers,
Simon.
Is it feasible to leave the gutters joined, but change the fall of your
bit and put some notional barrier in the gutter around the boundary with
your neighbour so your downpipe only serves your needs but deals with
the joint/drip issue.

Bob

On 16 July, 11:23, Bob Minchin wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
Currently my house and party wall neighbours gutters slope toward each
other with a shared downpipe in the middle. I am splitting the
gutters, so mine slopes away from the neighbour to a new downpipe just
for me. Neighbour will have an end stop on and the existing downpipe
will be just for her.
But, where there is a break in the gutters, I need to prevent drips
running down the wall. Any ideas ?
e.g. join the gutters with some sort of offset height union, fix some
lead in some way to divert the water ?
Is there a standard way of joining gutters where the height changes ?
Cheers,
Simon.

Is it feasible to leave the gutters joined, but change the fall of your
bit and put some notional barrier in the gutter around the boundary with
your neighbour so your downpipe only serves your needs but deals with
the joint/drip issue.

Bob

No really, since the bargeboards are continuous across the two house.
To get a fall within the bargeboard height, there will have to be a
step up when my gutter starts.
My gutter could actually start above hers but I don't think the
bargeboard is high enough to do this.
I guess the best thing may be to shape a bit of lead / copper or
whatever, so it projects over the top of the neighbours gutter
slightly (like a very shallow gutter) and directs any water away from
the slight gap between the two.
Simon.

Simon wrote:
On 16 July, 11:23, Bob Minchin wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
Currently my house and party wall neighbours gutters slope toward
each other with a shared downpipe in the middle. I am splitting the
gutters, so mine slopes away from the neighbour to a new downpipe
just for me. Neighbour will have an end stop on and the existing
downpipe will be just for her.
But, where there is a break in the gutters, I need to prevent drips
running down the wall. Any ideas ?
e.g. join the gutters with some sort of offset height union, fix
some lead in some way to divert the water ?
Is there a standard way of joining gutters where the height changes
? Cheers,
Simon.

Is it feasible to leave the gutters joined, but change the fall of
your bit and put some notional barrier in the gutter around the
boundary with your neighbour so your downpipe only serves your needs
but deals with the joint/drip issue.

Bob

No really, since the bargeboards are continuous across the two house.
To get a fall within the bargeboard height, there will have to be a
step up when my gutter starts.
My gutter could actually start above hers but I don't think the
bargeboard is high enough to do this.
I guess the best thing may be to shape a bit of lead / copper or
whatever, so it projects over the top of the neighbours gutter
slightly (like a very shallow gutter) and directs any water away from
the slight gap between the two.
Simon.

The normal way to have two seperate gutters meeting like this is to just
have a stop end on each gutter.

How much rain is expected to get down a 5mm gap? - when we have these flash
floods, the drains, then the downpipes and eventually the gutters fill with
water and it *all* spills over the top.

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Phil L
RSRL Tipster Of The Year 2008