Re: SB: wood gutters

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh ruth harding:

>I think that without a coating, or some pipe inside, that the rain 
>will just leak through the joins, maybe not a huge amount, but 
>enough to be a pain above the entrance doors.

     You're exactly right.  I let my eaves drip, mostly, but I did put 
a wooden trough above the front door.  I lined it with extra roofing 
cement, which failed pretty promptly.  The trough shunts most of the 
water to the side, but concentrates the rest into randomly spaced 
larger dollops of water.  So I'd call it a qualified failure.

-Speireag.
-- 
Speireag Alden, aka Joshua Macdonald Alden

If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but 
do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly 
useless parts?  To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution 
of intelligent tinkering.   -- Aldo Leopold, _A Sand County Almanac_ 

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