How To Install Rain Gutter Drainage

Install a diverter in the downspout positioning it even with the top of the rain barrel.

How to install rain gutter drainage.

You ll also need enough fascia brackets which hold up the gutter to place one every 32 inches along the roof. To install rain gutters first you ll need to measure the length of the roof you re working with and then purchase that many feet of gutter material from a home improvement store. Attach a short length of downspout to the underside of the diverter. Cut a piece of pvc pipe to that measurement.

Below the shingles on the high side of the gutter run. When installing gutters set the proper slope by driving a nail 1 2 in. Screw a drain cover over the end of the tubing as it approaches daylight to keep critters out. To prevent erosion make a rock bed around the end of the tube.

Fill the hole with the stone. Set a rain barrel on top of the concrete pavers. Measure and record the distance from the bottom of the fascia board to this nail. Use wood stakes and string to mark where you should dig in a straight line.

Quickly insert one end of the pipe into the adapter and the remaining end into the elbow and allow the cement to set. Decide where the rain chain will be hung and install a downspout outlet in the gutter in the desired location. Where the tube passes by the downspout from the gutter we installed a y fitting and drained the roof water from the gutter system directly into the main drainage line. Set two 2 inch thick concrete pavers on the ground directly below the downspout outlet.

Then using a shovel dig your trench. Apply pvc cement to the outside of each end of the cut pipe and to the inside of the elbow and adapter. For every 10 feet of gutter from this measurement and mark this distance at the low end of the gutter run. To make the french drain work the pipe needs to be sloped away from the starting point.