Painting Dr. Seuss
Before.
After.
Wow. It really IS better!
I also replaced the horrid strapping with an L-bracket on the bottom.
Better, too!
You know, downspouts are vital. Gutters as well. MOST of the exterior damage to the Cross House was caused by a lack of downspouts, and gutters not being properly maintained.
Sigh though, because with all the work I have done these past six years, I still need to attend to four gutter/spout issues.
The next few days will be consumed by reworking the gutter in the SE corner, which has long been a problem. That will leave three more issues to be resolved.
The downspout pictured above was missing for who-knows-how-many decades. Even though I tacked one on in 2015, it was not right. Last week I discovered that the part at the very top was rotted out, and so water just spilled outside the spout, and also behind the big curved cornice. Oh, the horror.
In any event, I am very happy that this downspout is, after so many decades, at last right. And, once again, while so much in the world seems so wrong, in a small city in Kansas something is a little better.
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It does look better painted and I love how quirky it is. Smart idea that L-bracket. But the BEST thing is that it solved the water/rot issue! Good thinking outta you!
Linda, it does feel good to fix a long-standing problem.
Now, just 835 more to go!
Just adorable and fun!
Many of us can say A-MEN to your gutter/downspout pronouncements. Dr David Johnston’s Balintore Castle, whose blog you follow (are there any you don’t, oh Argus-eyed Ross?) was damaged to the point of almost irretrievable ruin by holed/stolen rain goods. A good number of your followers can add “I, too, have suffered” stories–my failed Yankee gutters leaked into the walls, rotting the sills, and splashed on the foundations, eroding out the lime mortar from the stone and dropping the house levels all around the exterior. I’m no purist like Ross, so off came the Yankee gutters, on went half-rounds suspended from new fascia. Looks OK, and when I’m (even more) aged and infirm and inevitable leaks occur, at least they won’t drip on something structural.
Yikes, John!
Ross, I’m working on my own gutters. Can you please explain why it had to be an S curve connecting the down spout to the bottom one and couldn’t have been a U-shaped curve. Thanks for all I have learned from you!
Sorry I definitely didn’t mean U-shaped (my eyes popped open at 4:00 a.m. with visions of a kitchen trap drain) but just at a slanted sight curve piece to connect to both ends.