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Posted by Abe on July 29, 2005, 7:06 pm
>I've decided that my new house doesn't really need rain gutters. I'm in
>Southern California, get very little rain except in the winter, have no
>basement, and have substantial eaves draining water away from the exterior
>walls. However... my front porch has a small roof of its own, probably no
>more than four feet in depth. It's just shallow enough that people standing
>on the porch waiting for the door to be opened are exposed somewhat to the
>dripping off the porch roof. I don't really want to put a rain gutter on my
>porch roof, but I would like something to sort of divert the sheets of water
>from the center front edge of the roof. Is there some sort of device that
>would divert or funnel water rolling down the roof away from the center
>edge, letting it pour off the left and right edges of the porch roof? And
>if there is such a thing, what's it called?
This was talked about in an episode of TOH. What Silva did was to make
a diverter out of flashing metal and install it on the edge over a
door. In your case it would go on the edge of the roof over the door.
It was made of 2 pieces of straight flashing each about 30", and bent
at about 75 degrees (not quite an L). They were mounted kind of like
an upside down V over the door. They met in the center over the door
and the edges were mitered to make a peak. The angle of the V was
about 160 degrees.
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