Rainhandler Gutter
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- As the rain comes off your roof, Rainhandler's seven angled louvers break up the heavy sheet of water into small drops. These drops are deflected away from your home where they fall harmlessly to the ground in a 3 foot band.
I have used this system twice.
Once on a house I was rehabbing. There was a bumped out window that had a diverter in the roofing. Water leaked through/around the diverter causing quite a bit of water damage. After repairs, I used this. It was about a 5' section throwing the water into the landscaping and it was on a downhill slope. Between the small area (not full roof) and the downhill slope, it was the perfect fix.
Second was on my cabin. We had to bring in a fair amount of gravel to create a level base and the area has little dirt, mostly bedrock so there are no basement or foundation drainage issues. Everything drains through the gravel, onto the bedrock and out to the lake. My issue was sheets of water coming off the roof and washing out the fill. I also did not want to do gutters due to the trees and amount of leaves. This system has worked great for the near 15 years I've had it on the cabin. No leaves, no water in the foundation, no washed out fill.
This is not for all applications. In many places it would not be to code if used on the whole house. Using it for small fixes (like the window), or when the building site is correct, it's a great option.
This great product line went bankrupt it appears, due to being unaffordable in its' present over the top and super expensive aluminum material design. Great idea, but no common sense was used in the material choice. Vinyl or hard plastic would have been much more cost effective! The best solution is to have 24 inch roof overhang with no gutters and a gently sloped away grading from the house at wall to ground area, filled with a base bed of appealing pea gravel or a concrete sidewalk! Hard rain falls onto gravel or concrete and gently runs off the shallow slope as far away from the foundation as you make it! I hate gutters!
This was a great product and the best gutter alternative i've ever seen. I installed in several place around our home and it worked fantastic. Unfortunately the company has apparently gone out of business. I need a few more sections and wonder if anyone knows if it is still available anywhere.
I also want to install this, even build my own if I could get the specs on the aluminum stock and brackets and louvre spacing hardware.
The Rainhandler system makes sense for a home with either French drains around the foundation or planting beds. Pooling next to the foundation could otherwise be an issue and very valid concern.
My house has a complex roof for both stories, and I'm not a big fan of having six downspouts on just the front of my home. Add in the cleaning of each, possible snow/ice damage, and the rainhandler starts looking really good.
This only makes sense if your roof is already gutterless. If your counting on your gutters to get rid of the large amount of rain and melted snow from your roof, like most roofs, then this makes no sense as it just puts all that rain right on the ground next to your house. This would cause most people a lot of problems with leaks or dampness in their basements, not to mention the possibility of of a wall caving in due to water saturation.
+bart sim I agree with the possibility, but have to disagree that it ONLY makes sense if your existing roof is gutterless. If you have existing gutters that fail in all the wrong places (causing leaks in interior corners and windows and rotting) this starts to look good. Then add to if the house is on a slab, on the top of a hill, it might be ok (can you guess whose house I am talking about ). The bottom line is no solution is a panacea and you have to understand the full situation of your existing system (and its shortcomings).
It works so well that he has TRADITIONAL gutters on the house in the background and not his own product lol. You're still going to get water all around your foundation, whether its one line or little drops. This will also clog since it's just a flat surface for leaves and stuff to stick to, no different than putting a screen on top of the gutters.
This video gave me epilepsy
LOL
It looks like the shed's siding is still getting soaked.
The rainhandler website recommends the edge/lip of the roof extend two inches further out than the fascia/siding that the Rainhandler brackets attach to. It's hard to tell from viewing this video, but it looks like the water should be hitting this shed's Rainhandler further out.
The website sells a flashing/lip attachment to extend the roof's edge to two inches beyond the fascia/siding. Would the Rainhandler work better that way?
+Erik K Actually the website and installation says NO MORE than two inches out. The adapter are if you extend more than two inches. What you are noticing is a potential issue (in my opinion) in that in a light rain you are not getting as much dispersal because it is hitting only one or two of the louvers. Still, there is a certain randomness to this hitting that should disperse the rain.
Rainhandler is $21.90 for five feet, where aluminum gutter is around $7.00 for 10 feet. So 10 feet of Rainhandler is a whopping $43.80. So, to do a house fifty feet long, front and back, will take one hundred feet, which would equal $430.80 for Rainhandler, and $70.00 for 5" aluminum gutter. Throw in some downspouts and brackets, and you'll have around $120.00, as compared to $480.00. You be the judge, is it worth it?
Rainhandler sells 50ft with everything you need for complete install included for $194. If you go with regular gutters you have to buy everything separately and the cost will definitely exceed your calculations. Also, with Rainhandler you do not have to deal with accommodating the point of drainage in the system.
And how much is your time worth cleaning gutters? I live in Florida and have 2 massive oaks on my property. Even with a leaf guard I have to clean buildup 2 to 3 times a year.
tapzotto
Hey tap. I live in FL too. Do these handle the super heavy rains?
I read some saying it launches past the diffuser. Maybe they didn’t install them properly.
Thanks.
In SW FL and am in the process of replacing my roof, so while the fascia is back up, I have to gutters. I too wonder how well Rainhandler works with the torrential rains we get.
StrikitRich any update? I’m in south Florida and want to try this too. My mango tree has the one gutter I have full of leaves all the time.
When joining the 5 foot sections laterally or dong inside cuts would you recommend overlapping the gutters by a a couple of inches?
The issue it makes no sense it cost so much more expensive compared to normal gutter.Rainhandler clear uses less material ..
The video did not show the water hitting the ground. I wonder why.
Les Stroud living well in retirement
What's an eave trough?
it is also called the "valley". It is the trough created where two sloping roofs meet at angle, usually a 90 degree angle!
@@benniewilliams2019 hmm that sounds like a not ideal design though
Still like this product? Thanks
What about leafs?
Great concept. But big weakness is too easy for bad guys to steal gutters and sell parts online or for scrap metal. Maybe welding them together would help prevent that??
That's probably the dumbest comment I've ever read on RUclips.
Any criminal wandering your neighborhood with a ladder, and willing to climb up and tear down 50' of gutter in order to get,,,, wait for it: less than 10 pounds of scrap ALUMINUM which is worth, AT BEST 60 CENTS A POUND, yes, that's less than $6 worth of aluminum for climbing up and tearing down 50 feet of this stuff, carting it off and not getting caught.
Any criminals dumb enough to do that deserve the $6 they'll get.
Nice neighborhood you live in where the gutters get stolen.
Weld aluminum much there binkie???
Wow. Just Wow.
Welding it wouldn't be the problem. handling 10 or 20 foot sections would be. Plus the welds may not be the prettiest thing. Possible but not very feasible. Your big weakness is really a very small weakness in all but the crappiest of neighborhoods.
@@brianmi40 Evidently you don't live in California, where homeless people break into your house and rip all the wiring out of the walls to sell the copper. $6 would be worth it to them.
@@williamluke-roth9115 - so let me make sure I have this straight.
Homeless People.
They break into a house you're living in. Like when you're away on vacation, maybe snowboarding, or visiting Aunt Matilda in Hospice.
And they walk right past the stereo system, and the big screen TV, right past your juicer, your Nintendo, and go straight to the walls, where, with their bare hands, they dig out all the wiring, that's embedded in your walls, and nailed down every few feet, per code.
That's what they do???
Wow, it sure has gotten bad in CA since I left...
LOL
Haha. They would go through the trouble of steeling these gutters to make fifty cents. I don't think so.
What about your doors where you enter and exit with the groceries? Nobody wants grocery bags full of water.
There's a Doorbrella piece you add over the doors
Your house isn't designed properly.
@@davidstoleson792 well are you saying a house should never have hip roof? I hate them enough to agree but I believe the concensus is that they are normal
Why not put up a gutter ?
because they collect leaves and give mosquitos a place to breed
I live on a very wooded lot. I have gutters and could clean them every day and probably still not keep up. These seem like a better solution.
Les Stroud? Is that you?