WE HAVE GUTTERS

 We know, we know, another not so exciting topic.  Here it goes anyway, ha.  One thing that our builder didn't provide was gutters.  The reasoning is that every home sits differently on different properties and the way water flows off your roof and onto your land can be different. You want to make sure your gutters are designed around that flow of water. 

As they said, most people want to be in the home for a bit to decide how they are doing to do their landscaping, flower beds and such and where they want the rainwater to go.

We found a great local gutter company.  They came out and designed a plan for us and then came out and installed them all in an afternoon.

They are seamless gutters...meaning the long, straight sections are made of one continuous piece of metal.  The only seams are at the joints and downspouts like this.  They also matched our trim color perfectly.

Here is a picture of part of the back of the house.  Gutters all along the back with four downspouts (two are just out of the shot).

Here is one of them, the other side of the dining room by the back door to the garage...

...and here is the other one at the end of the garage.  This part will be nice to keep the water from pouring off the roof and splashing onto the concrete.

Here is the front...our roof lines presented some challenges, but they did it right, down to creating small sections of gutter (as above) to direct the water.

On corners, they added these "splash guards" (or damming deflectors as they are sometimes called).  This is to prevent heavy rainfall from becoming a high-volume overflow at those corner spots.

The last unique thing is this "captive area" we have.  We had to have a gutter downspout here since it was an important corner for handling runoff.  However, because of this area being surrounded on all sides by concrete (porch, driveway, sidewalk), we didn't want to create a ponding situation in there.  The concrete guy put in two underground drains there to handle the rainwater and direct it out of the area into the front yard.  What they did was connect this downspout to one of those drains so the water from there will flow under the sidewalk and into the front yard. They are coming back to dig a trench to put this underground.

Here is the front, the gutters blend in perfectly.  We love it and are excited to have them.  Now we just need a good rain to see how it all works, ha.

Side note, grass is greening up!  Spring is coming!