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How to add another gutter downspout?.......

jsbakal
17 years ago

I noticed that during a couple of recent heavy downpours, water poured over the top of an 8 foot section of 5" gutter. The downspout is clear and since it goes into a drain with a fixed opening, I do not have the option of adding another full downspout. My options would appear to be to change the 5" gutter to 6" gutter and keep the current "oversized" 4" downspout or make another opening in the gutter for an adjacent downspout and "Y" it into the current downspout. I would guess that this would do more to solve the problem since a 6" gutter only holds more volume before it overflows but does nothing to manage the large volume of water that drains into this section during a heavy downpour. Has anyone tried joining a second downspout into the first or have comments about this problem?

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