Wednesday 26 August 2009

Mini rubbish guttering

In a bid to save the planet (no less !), I have fitted some guttering to our 2 garden outbuildings, shed and summerhouse, and will later add waterbutts to collect the rainwater.
For the shed, had to melt the half-round gutter so I would be able to curve it around a dodgy 120degrees angles, for which no "off the shelf" solution exists.
Using a blow torch, I melted (BURNED, oops !) the plastic, which kinked, of course, rather than taking a nice bend, but hey, did the job, although it does not look very nice (you know me, that'll probably give me nasty dreams at night!).
Stacked underneath the overhanging roof, you can see the lovely white cast iron downpipes reclaimed from a building site in London. 14 pipes in all, 1m80 (6ft) each, and approx 25kg each. Carried them all in the boot of our car, do the maths, the rear shock absorbers in our fiesta are probably dead by now :-(



Guttering the summerhouse is more satisfying, but I suppose it better be acceptable, as this was a straight stretch of guttering, after all...
Look along the edge of the roof, you can hardly see the gutter (some would rightfully argue THIS IS THE POINT)

By the way, you can see that the inside of the said summerhouse is a (little) untidy, as it's always been. We're not really the right age group to go spend 2 hours in there enjoying our cuppa with our elderly friends, SO it was said that the summerhouse was going to have to be used for storage (shame about these big windows, can't hide anything !)
Also for those who are wondering, the blue staining to the top right is a paint sample, we will probably paint the front of the summerhouse that sort of colour, to refresh it a bit...

Thrilling, innit ?

2 comments:

  1. considering the size off the roof, you may be able to collect just enough water for your daily morning tea with that UGLY gutter :D

    nice work !

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  2. hehe, no, not really nice work, but it will do ;)
    (hardly my style, saing that, mus be old age kicking in...)

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