Outside Splatter From Roof...

[pauldeere]

Just finished my 40x50 pole building last year. I have a one foot overhang but no gutters. There are oak trees in the rear and walnut trees towards the front, therefore gutters would constantly be full of leafs and cleaning gutters is the last thing I need to do. My problem is after a hard rain I have mud splatter on the bldg. from the rain water comming off the roof. I am kicking around the idea of using landscape timbers or rail road ties to boarder the bldg. approx. 3 foot out then fill in between the ties and the bldg. with oversize gravel. I'm sure others have ben faced with this splatter problem, so I'm asking what other solutions are there, I am open to ideas.....Thanks

 

[nehog]

Gravel? Something big enough to not move when water (runoff from roof) hits it, with a weed barrier under to control weed growth.

 

[Kevin54]

If you want to do away with the splattering there are only two ways to do it. Either put gravel down at the bottom and make it fairly thick, or put a large gutter on to catch the water. Other than that there aren't many other options.

 

[Ocho]

+1 on the gravel.

Or, this might work for you.

http://www.rainhandler.com/

 

[ket-tek]

http://www.rainhandler.com/

I have rainhandlers on my rear covered porch, they work great.. I went with these because the porch roof is supported by round decorative pillars that I did not want to attach gutter downspouts to as it would look very out of place. They disperse the water evenly, I wasn't sure how well they would actually work but I'm happy with them.

Leaves don't really catch on the too much, but if they do you can blast them off from underneath on the ground with a hose.

But on a pole barn I would personally just lay down gravel on the sides instead.

 

[koditten]

You want landscape stone, not gravel. Gravel has soil that will wash away.

 

[5lima30]

+2 on the gravel and then cut down the walnut tree they are a PIA around buildings.

 

[911mike]

I installed commercial 6" gutters and have not had any issues. I have oaks and HUGE scotch pines.

 

[ket-tek]

You want landscape stone, not gravel. Gravel has soil that will wash away.

I brought in over 100 tons of both washed #5 and 57 on the property a few years back for driveway, erosion control, drainage, and runoff beside a shed, none of it has moved or washed anywhere after some serious rains.. But I guess it should be considered stone since there is no grit or sand such as crusher run which would wash away??

 

[trbomax]

In toledo I used river rock, because it was cheap. Up here I used drain field rock. They both look the same to me but the rr is dredged up from the maumee river by the sand suckers and the drain rock is screened out at the quarry.

edit) you need to excavate out at least 6" and do not put plastic under it because all the drainage will end up in your foundation.Landscape cloth is ok though. I just dug it out with the hoe about a foot x six feet and dumped it in. When you start to get weeds spray it once a year with pramitol (sp?)

 

[kbs2244]

A local library has pretty large roof that they are draining onto a waist high berm of “river rock.” Theses stones are fist to head size.
No gutters, it just comes off the roof.
As I understand it, the berm has a “V” bottom that leads to a drain tile that leads out to a drain field.
I would expect it has waterproofing on the building side.

Depending on your local terrain, a large rock covered trench with a drain pipe might be an idea.

A big advantage is that everything is at ground level. A leaf blower will clean everything up.

 

[Wastedwagesracing]

Anyone have experience with these with ice and snow. Just wondering how they work with those two elements.