Farmhouse, Orchard Grange Road ·
Guards and drains for a farmhouse under the firs
A white farmhouse under six Douglas firs, its gutters full of needles three times a year and one corner of the crawl space always wet. Guards on every run, and the water piped well away.
- What we did
- Black seamless gutters cleaned, stainless micro-mesh guards on every run, three downspouts piped 40 ft to a new dry well, a wet corner of the crawl space dried out
- Run
- 210 ft
- Time
- 2 days
- Cost
- $5,260 all in
The gutters themselves were sound, but the firs filled them every autumn and spring, and the downspout at the back corner emptied right at the foundation, where the crawl space was always damp.
On the first day we cleaned and flushed every run and fitted stainless micro-mesh guards under the first course of the metal roof’s drip edge. On the second, with the buried lines marked, we dug a trench from three downspouts to a dry well thirty feet out in the field and piped them in. The first storm after, the crawl space stayed dry.
Run sheetJob 260509
- Profile
- K-style, existing
- Size
- 6 in
- Guards
- Stainless micro-mesh
- Colour
- Black
- Run
- 210 ft in 5 runs
- Downspouts
- 3 piped to a dry well
- Drain
- 40 ft of 4 in pipe
- Dry well
- 50 gal, 30 ft from the house