Wednesday, February 26, 2014

gutters-for-curved-building

gutters for curved building


Hello! This is our first post here, looks like a VERY good forum and boy, are we at a point in building our house where we need help with a few things! First of all, we live near Cairns, Australia, so climate is tropical with a good amount of rainfall, much like Hawaii. We have been building our house over the last year, which is made from blocks and has a curved front and back wall on one of the buildings as follows: Front wall 19 metres curve 20.2 radius Back wall 10 metres curve 10.8 radius We are just doing the corefill this week which means trusses and guttering are next. People have told us all along the way that most things we are doing are next to impossible, but so far that has not been the case, it's just finding the best way to do it and thinking outside the square. Is there anyone out there who has had any experience with installing guttering along curved walls who can offer some advice? We own a business and have a workshop, we do welding and that kind of thing anyway, but have not done anything with PVC before, if that is even the best approach. Am not sure if this can even be curved with a heat gun, and if not then is welding sections together the best option? any other suggestions? If anyone has any suggestions or links to pictures of anything similar, would be great to hear from you! Many thanks, Chris and Lauren copper gutters would be your best option. a local sheet metal shop should be able to form the gutter in sections to be soldered together on the roof. thanks for that, roofers review. We will check that out and see if there is anyone around here that makes copper guttering Cheers Chris i dont know if this will help or not but some of the older homes in my area have a half circle flat decks on the front of their homes. what a pain it is to make drip edge look right on them, any way most use like 6 or 8 inch metal coil stock that goes around the edge an a at ceartin pionts like the collums that support it they will have an opening and a small gutter (1 foot or so) under it it dosent really look all that bad as it sounds








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