Posted: 12/7/2015 7:00:24 PM EDT
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I went to clean my Grandmothers gutters today and saw that all the gutters had a screen on top installed. This I thought was a good idea to keep the leaves out so I brushed off the leaves to take a look inside. Inside was about an inch thick of sediment from the pieces of leaves that went through the screen.
I though no problem I will get a ladder and spray with a hose everything to the down spout and everything will be good. While I'm spraying the stuff to the corner the water builds up and I say wtf? I go look at the corner and the down spout has a plastic pipe from the down spout into the dirt. This I would assume was done to have water not erode the dirt as it escapes the down spout but now the gutters are full of sludge and has no where to go. I shovel up the pipe and begin to dig out the down spout which is packed with mud from the gutters. I start to break into the reservoir of water in the down spout then Boooosh the gutter unleashes a fire hose on me. The screens might be good design, the down spout into the dirt, not a good design. The shit has to go somewhere and it isn't a buried pipe in the dirt. What should have been done to stop erosion is that concrete slabs for the water to trickle off. Ok, back to the other side of the house. |
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Roof drains do have pipes that carry the water from the downspouts, but it has to either daylight out at some point or tie into a structure, storm drain, etc.
The concrete blocks you are referring to are called splash blocks. Have the downspouts discharge on the splashblock but make damn sure there is positive drainage away from the house. Otherwise you will cause all kinds of trouble. |