Fairs and Gutters
Sep 25th, 2006 by Nate
This weekend we went to the durham fair. Lots of awesome goats and baby piggies. For food:
1) Chili in bread bowl (B-). Actually not bad for fair chili.
2) Roast Beef samis, slathered in bbq sauce. B+
3) Chicken wrap w/ Ranch. B+
4) Various samplings of hot apple cider. Overall, not that good this year, not at all spicy and really watered down.
My focus this year was home improvement crap. I guess the big thing now are these gutter guards that have that lip that only allows water to get in, and nothing else (so they claim). I was interested because the gutter screens I have now are all rusted and useless and falling apart, and since we have a billion giant oak trees on our property, the gutters can clog with junk pretty easy. I talked to a vendor, and they had that silly little contraption that shows you how it works. At first glance, it looks pretty impressive. Water tension/cohesion keeps the water flowing underneath the lip, until gravity exerts enough gravity sauce on it so that the tension breaks, and the water just trickles into the gutter.
Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like anything that floats on water that doesn’t break the surface tension will also go into the gutter along with the water. Like an acorn would never get in there, but I bet a small enough leaf that just sits on top of the water stream would go right down. It also looks like a strong enough stream of water, or any water with a turbulent flow (like during a strong rain storm) would go right over the edge of the lip. I’m not convinced it’s a good investment, and once the guy saw that I was trying to think of ways to defeat his system, he lost interest in the sale.
I guess I’ll try those plastic gutter covers, those look pretty promising.
Anyone out there have gutters? What works best for keeping mother nature out?
