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GUTTERS
Before you build… How will you handle the 1000’s of gallons of water that fall when it rains?
Of course, the default, is gutters…everywhere.
But it doesn’t have to be this way…this is just lazy thinking…
- Grade your land, away from your house.
- Extend the eves out another foot or two, and let the rain water fall into a stony periphery, connected to an underground 5000 gal. tank. Let the water trickle out buried in the land.
- OR…..
- Or, you can pay $1000/year and have the gutter guys walking on your roof (damaging it?) and risk them falling off? To clean your gutters.
Of course, the decision to use gutters or not is based on climate & zoning. Or, if you live on a hill, and water drains naturally away, you can consider gutters on only half the house.
A guy came over, and sketched out his plan for our gutters…
He measured length of house and length of drop downs, to create a bid and budget. Then we picked colors.
There was just no plan, just measure, and stick gutters on house, do it fast, and get paid.
Fast is the key goal. Get job, do job, get next job.
Again, there was no plan, to split a 45′ length of gutter to 2 sections, to accommodate the slope needed for drainage.
Plus, our gutter job, was complicated by a city requirement to use Rain barrels… (to not overload the creek at the same time as everyone else did.)
Specifically we needed these 3 huge 1000gal barrels.
Gutter water had to be equally distributed between these…ok, 4 corners of house, 3 barrels…interesting math. 
Here is the distribution of the back of the house, color coded to which rain barrel the water would go to.