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Rain Gutters Work Great On The Ground, Too
When new seamless gutters were installed on her house, Faye Bancroft decided to use the old gutters to channel water away from her house.
  “We had issues with a crumbling concrete pad,” says Bancroft. “It was allowing rain water to settle in next to the house. We needed to move water away more quickly.”
  Bancroft pulled the lawn back and dug a trench alongside the pad for the gutter to rest in. The depth of the trench leaves the edge of the gutter just below the level of the concrete. Then she laid pavers on the opposite side of the gutter.
  “The gutters work great,” says Bancroft. “I’ve had them in for about 5 years now.”
  Bancroft says the only maintenance is related to frost heave. Each spring she pulls up the pavers and gutter and redoes the trench so they fit in place.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Faye Bancroft, 7269 11 Mile Rd., Evart, Mich. 49631 (ph 231 734-3710).



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2018 - Volume #42, Issue #5