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Posted by Sherman on August 8, 2005, 12:10 pm
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>If you install a shed roof to direct water back to a narrow space between
>the shed and the house you will always regret it. Don't do it. Just turn the
>shed in another direction or get a different design.
>Don Young
>>> You say that the shed roof will be directing water toward the house.
>>> This, on the face of it, sounds like a bad idea. In fact, anything that
>>> directs water _toward_ the house sounds like a bad idea and most of us do
>>> a lot of work with gutters and drains and landscaping to make sure that
>>> water heads in the other direction. Where is it that the water will be
>>> going once it rolls down the shed roof and hits the house? Is there some
>>> escape route? Will it run down between the shed and the house and, if so,
>>> where will it go then?
>>
>> Well, it DOES sound like a bad idea, to be sure. I will not attatch the
>> shed to the foundation. The idea would be, that the slab will be sloped
>> away from the house mildly, and the water would run down the back and down
>> the concreate away from the house. but it still makss me a bit
>> uncomfortable. I dont have the sheds yet, so I cant really get a grasp of
>> how it will be. I have given some thought to rigging a gutter system for
>> the backs of the sheds, that would take the water away from the back of
>> the sheds.
>>
>>
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>>>
>>> I write this as one who spent many backbreaking hours demolishing two
>>> large concrete patios that were poured attached to the foundation of my
>>> older home and which, by design or shifting, were sloped to direct water
>>> toward the foundation. It made for a really ugly situation during heavy
>>> downpours.
>
My horror story has to do with termites coming into my home from
between the slab and my foundation. I now refuse to butt up a slab to
my foundation. I want a gap of 2 or 3 inches minimum so I can make a
visible check of my foundaton completely around the house.
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