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.

Designed and made my own pvc 3 inch schedule 40 rain gutters. Wood once the common material for constructing rain gutters is prone to rot and weathering. Nail each lookout to a rafter. Start with an aluminum panel.

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. Wood gutters were popular in the early 1900s before the price of aluminum fell and roll forming machinery brought our current gutters to market. 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. How to make wood gutters.

The bottom edge of the lookout should rest on the top of the wall extending passed the outside face of the. Nail 1 inch thick. Making the supporting straps. Comparing common rain gutter materials.

Rain gutters made easy. I had salvaged panels that were definitely poor in. This video shows the method and tools i used. Making the rain gutter.

Making wooden rain gutters is an expensive undertaking with prices ranging from 11 to 20 per foot. Builder scott mcbride recounts his time cleaning and rebuilding wood gutters including the advantages to wood gutters and the key to wood gutter longevity. So while you might still see wood gutters in very old. 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.

Half round gutters do not collect leaves like k s. Simple hand tools are all that are needed to make aluminum rain gutters. Cut mini notched rafters called lookouts from the 2 by 6 inch roofing lumber stock.