Which roof drain systems are easier?
For the installation of metal gutters, those who already have considerable experience of working with this material are willingly taken. If you do not belong to the group of these masters, it is better to choose roofing gutters for your country house easier. For example, plastic drainage systems are almost not required, which are easy to assemble only with the help of instructions. Here we will take this designer for the first time, simultaneously comparing this or that stage of work with the similar in the installation of steel drains.
So, before you a complete set, which must necessarily include gutters, connecting and expansion elements, funnels( among which at least two must also be with the function of the expander) and pipes with knees. Fixing elements are chosen to your taste, but polymer roof drainage systems are usually mounted with plastic holders. Have not you forgotten anything? So, it's time to start work.
Install roof gutters yourself
If you have a windboard, the task is extremely simple. To begin with, it should be decided where we will have a drain from the roof and that's where we fix the funnel on two screws, for which there are holes. With an indentation of 2 centimeters in each side, we mount brackets, the following are installed in steps of 60 centimeters and so along the entire perimeter of the house. It is important to remember that the outer edge of the funnel and the holders should be flush with the roof slope, not protruding from the imaginary line drawn from it, otherwise the sliding snow can simply demolish the entire water intake.
If there is no windboard, the brackets are used metal, for installation on rafter legs, and the usual funnel is replaced by an expansion or an invoice.
We continue to collect gutter systems with our own hands and now we have a queue of troughs. If we have an ordinary funnel, then the ends of both trays placed on it should be slightly heated and in the lower part of the edge of each make a splash. Now we put the gutters in the brackets, we apply a few strips of glue across the connecting element, apply the next segment of the tray to the already installed butt and connect them with the prepared element from the bottom, pressing firmly until it clicks.
Expanders have special grooves for gutters, brackets are installed on both sides of the connection points, no more than 2 centimeters of .Angle joints and plugs are overlapped, their edges are greased with glue and tightly pressed against the chutes until the locks click. The resulting seams at the junction point are also smeared with glue to avoid depressurization, since running water at bends and dead ends hits the walls with considerable force. For the same reason, in order to strengthen our homemade drain, on both sides of the corner and near the caps on the brackets are fastened clamps.
We supply drainage systems for the roof
Given that we have already installed funnels, streams that could pour all along the perimeter of the roof will collapse downward with powerful jets, unless you install drain pipes. The fabrication of the drainage system begins with gluing to the funnel of the knee, directed towards the wall. To him is joined without glue a straight segment of sufficient length, so that the second knee, oriented downwards, already planted on it, was a small distance from the wall of the house.
The further manufacture of drains by the hands proceeds as without glue, enough fixing of pipes by муфтами and collars( installation to a wall is carried out by screws or dowels).
A stronger connection is required only for tees and terminals with outlets. The latter are of several types: in the form of a knee, with a tap for a barrel, with a smoothly curved bottom and a hole on the side. Often, instead of the tip, there is a transitional element for a point header or collector. The second option requires a suitable tip on the adapter. The drainage systems for roofs are topped with a grate from the debris and a retaining ring over the uppermost clamp.
