If you are investing in a concrete or paving stone patio or driveway it is worth spending a bit extra to relocate or reroute your gutter downspouts this could involve something as simple and inexpensive as installing rain barrels or it could be a more in depth approach such as running your drainage under your hardscape.
Rain gutter over sidewalk.
Home centers sell a gutter apron in 10 ft.
A gutter apron is a bent piece of flashing that tucks up under the shingles and over the gutter.
As rainwater falls from the roof of your house into the gutters downspouts empty the gutters by collecting the rainwater and directing it away from the house.
Ask an assistant to hold the end of a chalk line several feet before the end of the existing gutter and aligned with the gutter s upper edge.
If water is dripping behind your gutter it s probably because it was installed without any flashing over the back of the gutter.
Sometimes water pools under your.
You don t need me to remind you that cleaning gutters twice a year is a must.
How to reroute or relocate downspouts.
Work from stepladders or a scaffold.
The gutter apron will prevent the dripping.
I have two downspouts whose discharge i need to get past a sidewalk.
Think about your rain gutters as a total system.
A cross sidewalk drain csd is designed to carry away rainwater from down spouts safely and discreetly across the sidewalk driveway or patio.