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I eliminated all the guttering on our house. I took it all off the front and back of the house over a decade ago, finally took it off the front and back of the garage a couple of years ago when we had to reroof everything.
I took a good look at the drainage around the house and figured out that all I needed to do to get the water away from the foundation was rake all the pinestraw out of the beds next to the house, build up a slight berm made of clay so it met the house about 7" above grade, cover the clay with plastic, then add another several inches of clay and dirt on top of the plastic, then put pinestraw over that.
I highly recommend it if you can pull it off... it just causes all the water to go into the yard, and it is either absorbed there, or runs off into the driveway or street.
No more gutter cleaning.
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- John
"We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."
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