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Grogster

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Location: New Zealand
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Posted: 06:46am 07 Jan 2025

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My new rental, has this LOVELY shed design.

I need to state that this is how the current landlords purchased the property, so not really their fault.

The shed was obviously added on to the original house, but rather then fix the spouting so that it has its own one, they simply built the shed around the existing spouting.

If/when the spouting becomes blocked.....well.....you can imagine what happens, and it is not good.

After having a MASSIVE flood into this shed one weekend, I drilled some holes in the spouting so the water could escape, rather then overflow into the shed.

Lovely design......

I've discovered that the downpipe is also blocked, so the water literally had nowhere to go, so.....

Not good.

Brought to the landlord's attention, and more holes drilled in the downpipe, to ensure that any excess water simply drains out via these holes, but....DAMN!

....what were they thinking with this idea?! (whoever built it like that)

Money, I expect. (would cost lots more to have a separate spouting)

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

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