If you have got a roof structure,
then guttering is a must because council regulations require all
your rain water to be contained.
Installing guttering yourself isn't hard.
I'll show you how to do it so you
can divert the water into the drain or into a holding tank
so you can use it later.
So I'm going to attach some guttering to my pergola.
The first thing I need to do is establish
where my light point is.
Now, I'm going to have my light point on us
here because I'm going to T into the existing house down pipe.
So I'm going to have a high point here,
and I'm going to run a chalk line down to here.
Now, you need a minimum of 5 millimeters fall
per 10 meters of guttering.
Now I'm only 5 meters long here, so in theory, I only
need about 2.5 millimeters fall.
The first thing I'm going to do is attach my bracket
about 15 millimeters in from the end of the beam.
Now, I'm just going to keep the top of the bracket
there hard to the underside of my roofing.
Now I'm using 30 millimeter stainless steel screws.
You want a minimum of four screws in your bracket.
That's my high point sorted, now I'm just
going to sort out the light point.
Now, this is my dropper.
Before I jump up and screw that to my beam,
I just want to attach my end plate
here to the back end of it because it's going
to be very hard to do later.
Now to do that, I'm just using this PVC solvent welding
cement.
So all I'm going to do is attach our welding
cement to the inside of the dropper,
applying a liberal amount.
And then just pushing the end plate in.
Nice.
Now, we'll just wait for a couple of minutes
and that'll be set.
Now, I'm 223 millimeters to the bottom
of my bracket, so on this side I'm going to make it
220 millimeters.
That's going to give me 3 millimeters of 4.
I'm only 5 meters long here.
This line must line up with the bottom of our dropper
or expansion outlet.
Righty-o.
The next thing I have to do is run a chalk line
from the bottom of that bracket there
to the bottom of our other bracket down at the other end.
Now, I'm going to use the chalk line to mark on our beam
the exact location of the bottom of all our brackets.
So we've just got to mark out where our brackets go
on our string line.
We want to be a maximum of 500 millimeters from center
to center.
If you're in an area where there's a lot more rain
or it's prone to snow, you want to close it down
to about 300 millimeters.
Now I'm just about to put my last bracket on.
Now, we have to be a minimum of 50 millimeters away
from our dropper.
Now I'm just about ready to put my guttering up.
There's a few different profiles you can choose from.
I've chosen this one here, it's called classic.
The reason I've chosen that is because, one, it
pulls in with the villa a lot, and two,
it also matches the existing guttering on the house.
Now, I can't actually buy a length of guttering,
the full length of my pergola, so what I'm going to do
is put the right hand in into to dropper
and then I'm going to have a joiner over here.
The reason for that is it's just going
to look a lot tidier having the joint over here
as opposed to right directly above the doorway.
So I'm just going to attach my joiner on the end of this spout
and while it's down on the ground.
Now, there's a couple of different types of jointers
you can actually get.
This is your stock standard jointer.
And there's also an expansion jointer.
Now, you only want to put in an expansion jointer
on if you're going more than 10 meters length.
Now, I'm only 5 meters so I can just use my nice stock standard
one.
So once again, I'm just going to use my PVC solvent cement.
Apply that to the inside of my guttering.
So while I'm down on the ground, what I'm going to do
is just glue our end cap on our other piece.
So what I'm going to do is just clip the guttering
onto the end of these little brackets.
So the first thing we do is hook that
end on making sure they're right into that clip.
And then all we do is tap it in.
This dropper or expansion outlet adjusts for thermal movement
depending on the temperature at the time of installation,
which in this case is about 20 degrees.
Beautiful.
All I need to do now is measure from my end of my beam
up to our jointer.
Now, I just want to measure to the center of my bracket.
So I got [? 24 ?] [? 40. ?]
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Cool, so I'll just clean those dags off the end.
Then, we will take this up into position,
and I'll glue in our jointer and slip this in.
Now that my guttering is up, the next thing I have to do
is connect my dropper into my down pipe over here.
So what I've got here is a couple of combination jointers.
I'm going to just slip this one on here.
That's just got to sit there.
Next, place the T section against the down pipe,
and measure the distance to the jointer
and ensure there's a slight fall.
And just mark top and bottom.
So I need to remove that section of the down pipe,
and I'm going to use my hacksaw to do that.
So I just want to join these up on the ground
and take this whole unit up in one piece.
That is my piece angling up.
Let's just reach that on.
Cool, so we'll just take that all up in one piece
and glue it in.
I'm not actually going to put any glue on our dropper,
I'm just going to secure that place with a stainless screw.
Lovely, just slide that up.
So all I got to do now is just attach the stainless screw
into our dropper.
Beauty, job done.
There we have it.
That's how easy it is to install guttering and get
that water going we want it.