SB: Re: wood gutters

["Bill Hunt" <billhunt@redrock.net>]

Anyone tried those Rainhandler things?  "Better than gutters",
"Self-cleaning", etc (from their sales stuff): www.rainhandler.com .  No
downspouts.  They sort of dissipate the rain, away from the
building.  Not what you want over the doors, but could be good elsewhere,
unless you want to collect that rainwater to water your garden later (which
makes sense to me).  Metal gutters seem practical for that.

That Moose in the snow country, smelling frost coming, wrote:
>... ice-buildup in winter (after repeated freeze-thaw cycles) can result in
burst
>& sagging troughs & downspouts)

Indeed.  In heavy snow country here, gutters will be ripped off the building
by extraordinary ice formations without heat tape everywhere, which seems
like a huge energy waste.  FWIW, as strange as it may seem, many  buildings
in Alta have flat roofs (actually sloped to roof drains, sometimes 1:12)
designed for huge snow loads (no life threatening roof avalanches that way),
with the drainage "downspouts" running in the building's heated space.

Cheers- WasatchBill



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