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Yes, "should." I've found that should happen and did happen are two very different things when it comes to a lot of homes. Incidentally, our roof had gutters/d
by orthecreedence 2y ago
Yes, "should." I've found that should happen and did happen are two very different things when it comes to a lot of homes.
Incidentally, our roof had gutters/drainage originally. We put in our own french drain after about 8000 hours of research, and decided to re-route the roof drainage to right above the new french drain (separate pipes) because the roof drainage broke at some unknown point and was dumping water around our foundation piers (yay...). Well, our roofers came and installed gutter guards after all this, which caused the gutters to shed 60% of the water into the drainage area because of the way they're angled. If we hadn't put in a french drain, it'd be a real problem, but as it is now, it's a mild annoyance that I keep telling myself I'll fix.
- strunz 2y agoYou should make them remove the gutter guards. If you're losing by that much water to your foundation, the gutters are kind of pointless now.
- datavirtue 2y agoI have used French drains on buildings where I didn't want to install and maintain gutters. The roof shed straight into a gravel path (no soil coverage) around the building that had perforated pipe leading to a dry well. Worked perfectly. In one case the pipe had to be very shallow so I used crusher-run (404) aggregate to form better support around the pipe at the surface. Again, worked perfectly. You really have to watch the details and plan things out meticulously for the given situation.