French Drains: These are essentially gutters in the ground. To install a French Drain, you dig a trench, install a perforated pipe, then cover the pipe with gravel. Water falling off your roof ...

Left Tool has a strange gutter situation on one corner of his porch. He solves it with a rain chain drain. He went with a rain chain drain because he didn't like the way a gutter looked in this spot.

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“Because a lot of homes have gutter downspouts that lead straight to the ground, you’ve got all this water coming off the roof and pouring to just one point, where it can collect against a ...

Gutters positioned without adequate slope won’t move unwanted water away from the home, or may hinder water drainage altogether, whereas too much gutter slope will cause water to drain too ...

Next on the list is number of downspouts. The more downspouts that are installed, the greater the cost. Therefore, some contractors use only one on a length of gutter where two downspouts (one at ...

PBOT says there are more than 58,000 storm drains in the city, and they simply can't get to them all. They encourage Portlanders to "adopt" a storm drain, and clear them out on their own.

A one-two punch of leaves and then snow. Rain Drain, a local company specializing in getting your home ready for fall, says the season is quickly approaching.