Make Wooden Rain Gutters

Whether you have a classic house in need of repair or are planning a new house in a traditional style wood gutters can add beauty and functionality to your home s exterior.

Make wooden rain gutters.

Builder scott mcbride recounts his time cleaning and rebuilding wood gutters including the advantages to wood gutters and the key to wood gutter longevity. Simple and beautiful ways to repurpose rain gutters in your household have featured below these are meant to save that used out piece of metal or plastic from the landfill by beautifully up cycling them as toy organizers bookshelves key storing boxes sculptural garden installations or even jewelry storage. Cut mini notched rafters called lookouts from the 2 by 6 inch roofing lumber stock. In addition to the mechanical function of collecting rain water and conveying it to the ground the molded face of the gutter becomes the crown molding of the building.

Designed and made my own pvc 3 inch schedule 40 rain gutters. The bottom edge of the lookout should rest on the top of the wall extending passed the outside face of the. This video shows the method and tools i used. Wooden roof shingles are still quite common although not as prevalent as they were 50 years ago and many of these traditional style houses have wooden rain gutters.

Wood once the common material for constructing rain gutters is prone to rot and weathering. Breg house itself had wooden gutters when i first bought it but they were at the end of their lives and with interior renovations the priority the house had remained gutter. Nail each lookout to a rafter. Making wooden rain gutters is an expensive undertaking with prices ranging from 11 to 20 per foot.

It is easier to order pre made custom designs from a store or factory. Making the supporting straps. Start with an aluminum panel. Simple hand tools are all that are needed to make aluminum rain gutters.

I had salvaged panels that were definitely poor in. Making the rain gutter. Nail 1 inch thick. Rain gutters made easy.

Comparing common rain gutter materials. Make wooden rain gutters to repair worn out parts or maintain the intent of the initial architectural design. Wood gutters were popular in the early 1900s before the price of aluminum fell and roll forming machinery brought our current gutters to market.