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I could not sleep yesterday so I prepared another little calculator,
the rain water harvesting calculator that estimates how much water you could collect with only your roof, gutters, downspouts and an appropriate water storage tank.
Enjoy and drop me a line if anything......
And here we go with
the downspout (leader) calculator, a tool estimating how many downspouts you need based on your roofīs area....
...the roofing spamming.
Today, I was just looking for some news in the field of metal roll forming machines (for roofing purposes) apart from couple of relevant results, I also got (from Google, who else) the URL of this
Spammer.
I have to admit that he/she uses quite sophisticated method of mixing together the various texts scraped from another sites to give you/me the semblance of the real gutters/downspouts focused site....
The half round gutters
The half round gutters used to be very popular in the past.
Their manufacturing was quite simple, they could be produced easily from the hollowed raw tree stem (wooden gutters) or from the bended steel plate (metal gutters, later galvanized or zinc coated).
Even today the half round gutter is still very popular in Europe as it offers some advantages compared to square or K style (OG) gutters.
Half round gutters avantages
- the half round gutters provide less chances to develop clogging.
Their inner shape is smoother than the inner shape of square or K style gutters (no edges where the mess can sediment), the debris is better conducted by the rain water;
- the half round gutters are least affected by corrosion than the square or style K gutters.
This has the same reason as above, having smoother inner shape than the gutters with edges, there is smaller chance the wet areas will form that usually cause the co...
It is always better to clean the gutters from the steady roofing ladder. Such cleaning is proper, consistent, you always know what is going on in the gutter, the risk of punching the gutter through is quite low.
But what to do if you need to clean the rain gutters from the ground?
For certain reasons, sometimes you just cannot climb the ladder and clean the gutters and downspouts.
You were skiing the last Saturday and ended up with the heavy splinter on your leg.
You are in 7th month of pregnancy when such works could imperil you or your future child.
Maybe you are 80 years old grandfather, I know you are still strong enough to do whatever you want, but really, you donīt have to necesarilly climb to the 12 ft heights.With couple of tools you will be able to clean your raing gutter even from the safe ground.
Gutter tongs
Gutter tongs are simple tool enabling you to gather larger amounts of debris from the clogged gutter.
The gutter tongs loo...
