How To Close A Gutter Downspout

Gutters over flows add downspout to bring water down from roof faster.

How to close a gutter downspout. You may need to crimp the end of the downspout with a pair of pliers to get a good fit. Insert the downspout into the elbow if you put the elbow into the downspout it will leak. Use needlenosed pliers to slightly crimp the elbow to fit into the downspout as shown. One downspout one drop outlet three elbows and two wall clips will cost about 40 at a home center.

The standard is about inch per 10 feet. Hold another elbow against the house and cut a piece of downspout to fit between the two elbows. For the garage i used a downspout adapter without a leaf guard since there aren t trees close enough for that gutter to get clogged up. Increasing the pitch increases a gutter s handling capacity but the gutter may look askew over a long run.

Make sure to seal the drop outlet to the gutter with seam sealer. To do this i cut the black corrugated pipe added a t and aimed the pipe upwards to the downspout. For michael buchtel s home which has a lot of roof space the issue of rain and snow runoff is particularly important. The above recommendations assume that you have properly sized downspouts every 40 feet.

Watch and learn how and stop. Gutters and downspouts are critical to ridding the roof of water and getting it away from the home s foundation. Insert the drop outlet in the hole and fasten the new downspout with sheet metal screws. As with gutters a downspout s capacity must match or exceed the expected runoff.

Cut a piece of metal of the appropriate type to cover the hole. Its easy less than 30 minutes and under 30 00 in parts.