Rain down spouts ??

[1jjpop]

I have the regular [small type] down spouts on my gutters on my house . I see people putting bigger ones on there drains . Do they really help?? Seems like I have to clean mine out ever fall. I have gutter covers on my eves.

 

[cbusters]

Trend in Florida for a while were different kinds of rain chains and other things instead of downspouts. Kind of cool looking when it rains.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Bigger downspouts usually go with larger gutters. If yours are draining well as is, there's probably no reason to change them.

 

[southalabama]

In south alabama it often rains so hard that one downspout can't handle it so then you get overflow and some backing up around the facia over the top of the gutter.

Options. What he said. Two.

Or bigger

A couple nice houses have copper chains and they look cool. I'm just not sure how well the work with hurricane winds.

 

[Fixin'Stuff]

In the Houston area we can get 15 inches of rain in 12 or so hours. Big downspouts are good when that is happening. The best thing I've found is that the big ones hardly ever get clogged with leaves. Everything just blasts through.

 

[kbs2244]

Go outside and check if they are overflowing during a real heavy rain.

 

[CNGsaves]

In the Houston area we can get 15 inches of rain in 12 or so hours. Big downspouts are good when that is happening. The best thing I've found is that the big ones hardly ever get clogged with leaves. Everything just blasts through.

^ ^ ^ ^ This. Never, EVER, NEVER just put in 2"x3" downspouts. Upgrade to at least 3"x4".

 

[exmaxima1]

^ ^ ^ ^ This. Never, EVER, NEVER just put in 2"x3" downspouts. Upgrade to at least 3"x4".

Got new gutters last week----went with "5-inch", which is 3x4 rectangular dimensions.

 

[Dave in Mass]

What is this rain you speak of?

 

[toolmiser]

Here is something I did. I have a place where there is a lot of volume flowing thru it on occasions even with the large downspout. I drilled a few holes near the top of the "cap" to allow the overflow to escape on that end. It's located away from the above grade foundation that has no basement.

 

[1jjpop]

Thank you for the replys. I'am going to look into larger down spouts.

 

[930dreamer]

How about D's?