Had a situation where there was no good way to get the downspouts to the ground. Dale and the HO came up with this. The chains will terminate in urns set on the carport apron.
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Any idea how much over spray or slash you'll get?
I was looking at those but the manufacturer described them
as meant for areas with small amounts of water.
Any idea how much over spray or slash you'll get?
Probably quite a bit. But it doesn't matter in this case. The soffit is about 3' wide and we've added about 18" of downspout to project the water out into the driveway. In light to medium rains, they'll work fine. In downpours it doesn't matter. Snow melt might be a problem. We'll see.http://grantlogan.net
"I could have had Miss September...... I couuld have had Miss May. I could have had Miss November, but I waited for December....." ZZ Top.
Yeah I love the idea tho.
Did you see the one that's like little bowls that overfill into
on another?
Cool but not practical for me ;(
Did you see the one that's like little bowls that overfill into on another?
Yeah, I'm gonna do something like that on the gutter on my deck cover/pergula thing.http://grantlogan.net
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Hey make sure and report back how it
miraculously doesn't spill a drop so I can get one.
Hey make sure and report back how it miraculously doesn't spill a drop so I can get one.
They splash like hell if there's any roof acreage at all going thru them. You don't want to use rain chains unless you've got good soffit extension distance.
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"I could have had Miss September...... I couuld have had Miss May. I could have had Miss November, but I waited for December....." ZZ Top.
I know but can't a guy dream?
Actually I do have deep overhangs (two foot) and it's only
one story high, but on the uphill side of the house.
At the moment the downspouts are connected to underground drainage
that so far carries the water away quite well. The basement is very dry.
Yet it is a focal point of the building, and it would be nice to dress it up some. PS Their is a lot of acreage.
The whole darn 2500 sf house.
Edited 6/28/2008 8:06 pm ET by Henley
How about the pivoting bamboo tube that fills to a tip point and then when it drops to empty itself the upper end strikes another hollow bamboo tube that rings like a bell? Or if you have a steep lot you can make a water fountain. I did that with one client using the rain drains collected into one pipe and sent down a hill where we just necked the pipe down and turned them vertically. From the house windows you could look 30" down the hill side and see the fountain rise and fall in relationship to the amount of rain.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
How about the pivoting bamboo tube that fills to a tip point and then when it drops to empty itself the upper end strikes another hollow bamboo tube that rings like a bell?
Hit the wrong button and didn't post what I wnated to say! Which is--sounds very meditative! (I have seen the clackers you are talking about--pretty cool!)
Edited 6/29/2008 4:21 pm ET by Danno
Those are neat . The trick with the chain I learned is small tight links keep the water flowing down the chain and really reduces splashing, the more surface area for the water to run down the better. I cut the chain long enough to drop a 4" or so length down into the drain upright. This helps anchor it from wind and guides the water right where I want it. Periodically I have to shake the chains to loosen up any debris that gets caught in the links.
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I have played with chains for downspouts quite a few times over the years. Best ones to date are made up out of small link chain (same style and size of link as is used in choke chains for medium sized dogs).
I make a ring that is larger than the down spout opening and hang 6-8 of the chains like a curtain around the the ring. The water flows nicely down the small links and the circle of them contains the flow from all but the heaviest of downpours with in it. They actually have an interesting "wooshing" noise when it rains hard. the water flowing down the links is broken up in it's flow like a small brook running over gravel.
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Good ideas! I was worried about the splash and was thinking of a shield or a series of truncated cones or cylinders or something. Am going to try your idea. Only problem is you can lead a downspout out away from building, but I guess you can do the came thing with a trough that the chain terminates in.
I have used small plastic funnels attached to the small chain , it worked well .
Not as many chains and a funnel every 4' or so. Functioned fine, looked like hell at the main entry corner of the house LOL. Now if I were a metal smith like the guys here I might play with that idea again. Small brass or copper links, fancy copper "catchers" cut and shaped into artistic funnels would be OK.
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Very nice! I was just telling my brother how I am tired of clearing jammed downspouts and am going to use chains of cables or bamboo poles or something other than the traditrional tubes that clog and provide nests and sustenance for bugs. On my garage, I just stuck a copper pipe in the ground under the open downspout drop and then stuck a bamboo stake in that and let it run up through the drop. Worked well for many years--finally ice broke the bamboo this year, so I'll replace that.
Friday I took down the gutters on our two story addition and replaced trhem with Rainhandlers. Gutters and downspouts were packed with maple seedlings, dirt, leaves, ants and millipedes. I felt like an evil landlord evicting them all from a comfortable residence! Gutters seem to be excellent hyroponic systems for growing maple trees, and are great ponds for rearing insect larvae. I told my wife if people only knew what was in their gutters and downspouts (and carpets, but DW likes carpet, so my pleas fall on deaf ears there).
I've got rainhandlers on the back of my house.
They are OK.
Course I'd like to get some rain so I can check to see if they still work. <G>
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