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)

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

That wood beam in the first picture looks like it is rotting.

Besides the mold growing on it, it doesn't look very strong.

That looks fairly typical for an add on shed. The builders probably saw that if they continued the house roof line over the shed that the shed would be too low.
So they ran the roof opposite to the house and that creates many problems.
It would have been much better to make the shed a stand alone building in that case.
One more wall on the shed and pitch the roof to get a decent fall into its own gutter.
Cheap and nasty comes at a cost
Pete

Yeah...   "Cheap, Quick, and Good.   Pick any two..."

  EDNEDN said  

That wood beam in the first picture looks like it is rotting.

Besides the mold growing on it, it doesn't look very strong.

It isn't, but it does have mold growing on it.
What looks like rot, is where the have CUT LARGE SECTIONS out of the roof support beams, to clear the spouting passing through it.  The entire structure is therefore, weak, and the roof is not very well supported because of that.

Getting up on the roof of this shed, requires some care, and last time I did it, I actually acquired a large screw-jack thing, and set it up under the beam I planned to climb onto the shed roof on.  This then supported that one weakened roof beam, by providing a support down to the concrete floor.

Since I drilled the holes in the spouting back in January, there has not been a flooding issue since.  The landlords STILL have done nothing about it though....