photo of the side of the garage with a new gutter installed over the water tank

Now that we have the water tank, and the laundry sink is hooked up…

photo of the laundry sink running

…it’s time to start catching the runoff from the roof. We ordered gutters, but they shipped us downspouts instead. We exchanged those, then discovered that they gave us the wrong end caps. I still need to do some design work on the downspout. But at least we got the gutters themselves installed.

The downspout gets a bit complicated, as I want it to divert the first few gallons of water from the roof so that the dust and leaves and such don’t all go into the water tank. One more trip to the hardware store should do it… if we’re lucky.

—2p

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