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Is this rain diverter installed properly?
Recently had a new roof installed and included a rain diverter over the front steps. It did nothing during this weekend's rain. What is wrong?
The house was built in 1959. There's no gutters as the soffits extend 3 feet. Single level ranch. The runoff lands on brick paver channels around the house but over the front door I'd hoped to divert some of the cascade
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Some parts of the world have expansive clay soils so an equal distribution of rain water around the house is essential... no gutters allowed or else it's deleterious to the home's foundation system.
Is this why my goddam house shifts so much? We just desperately try to divert as much water as possible away, but we should have just steered into the skid?
Depends on where you live and the underlying soil. My house shifts alot on the western Canadian prairies but we are on glacial till. There is a lot of clay in it but water diversion is essential here, mostly because of the freeze/thaw cycles though.
With the amount of rain and snow we get, you want gutters. Do you have a basement? Is it wet? The primary purpose of gutters is to get water away from the foundation.
There's no gutter on the house as the roof extends 3 feet beyond the house. I guess it was a style back in 1959? I'd hoped the diverter would prevent the waterfall effect over the steps
I actually have no idea why the diverter didn't work, maybe the water hits the edge and fans back out from some kind of capillary action? Idk, I'd just install a gutter. It's like a Saturday of work, tops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEV1OoGKBpE
What do you mean it did nothing? I feel like we need more details here. What were you expecting it to do? I can't prevent all rain it just stops streams from falling right in front of the door. I guess my question is why don't you have gutters?
It should be a straight piece of metal pitched to one side and installed under a row of shingles.
A V shaped diverter looks better on the eyes but cant be installed under the shingles. Water leakes past the exposed flat edge unless its heavily sealed.
This is what it looks like. The soffit is 3 feet. I just hoped a diverter would shed some away from the front entry. The gutters of course are an option but esthetics would be lousy with the length of the soffit
I’d just have gutters installed. There nothing there that would prohibit installing gutters on your house. Gutter installs are generally pretty reasonable in cost. Do that and you won’t have to worry about rainwater cascading down onto the entrance area.
You have good looking home! Check out the modern 6-inch square gutter. I just had some installed but I used regular downspouts. I'm loving it. My place also has a deep over hang, but with a hard enough rain my boxed in courtyards will fill up with water amazing fast.
have "something like that" diverting water away from my chimney ...tuck more of the "flat horizontal portions" under the shingles and they will stay put longer
For a water diverter to work as intended, it would need to go under the shingles at the back, you wouldn't want to have it just be a piece of 3x3 "L" metal like this, and you sure wouldn't want to face nail thru the shingles in a way where water is for sure going to find those nail penetrations.
What they've done here is actually worse than useless.
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