gutter corner drip
All the time we have been here the nearest corner of the extn gutter in the first picture has always dripped. I thought I had fixed it by replacing the long bit with a new black gutter from the old brown half filled cement second hand one that was there before.
However that was not the only problem , the slope was wrong as well.The water just lay there as the nutter before I don't think he knew water run downhill.
so this morning I decided to fix it for once and for all. Off came the long bit and off as well the support brackets. Then out with a metal ruler to mark where the bottom of the support brackets should be to give a slight, but enough slope. then replaced that part of the gutter and test with the far corner taken down..
You can just see each support bracket bottoms are nearer the bottom of the barge board at the far end
Yes water is the best way to check and the water run all the way to the far end. Yippee got the slope correct.
Now for the down pipe end around the corner which again was a complete bodge, but that is what I expected.
All the joints taped together so they had to come off as well as the 2 support brackets. Next was to cut back a bit of connection round pipe which buggered everything up. So
refixed only one support bracket in new position to allow the slope to continue. Didn't think it needed 2 brackets for such a short length and the downpipe connection give enough support that end any way.
Ok now for a full flowing length water test and it worked. Not as fast a flow as I would have liked but it as I said works. Pity there was not enough depth in the plastic barge board to get a half decent slope, so had to make the best of what was there
Please don't ask why the main roof down pipe is brown and the rest is black, think he must have been not only stupid but colour blind a well. Annoying thing is he claimed to be a builder with his own firm. No wonder he went bust