Hi.
I wonder if someone could advise me on this please? We are about to have a small extension put onto the front of our home, which will have a mono-pitch roof to just under the cils of the 1st floor bedrooms. The thing that is causing me abit of a headache at the moment is with ref to the existing house roof downpipes. Basically, they run into drains which will have to be moved as they will be covered by the new extension. The builder is proposing that the roof downpies will just drain onto the new roof extension and then down the new guttering and downpipes into the new drains, which will be tied back into the existing drains. I'm not that thrilled about that solution and have therefore been looking into other solutions and eventually came across the abutment soaker system which I think may be ideal as I also have an existing vertical wall that the new roof will butt up to.
My question is. Would it be feasible for the house roof downpipe to drain straight into the top of an abutment soaker and therefore become almost a 'hidden' roof drain/gutter? I can just imagine the builders proposal meaning that in time, I'll have a nice green and slimy strip running down the front of my new roof. Any suggestions? Am I barking up the wrong tree here? If abutment soakers are no good, is there anything else which would solve the issue?
Thanks
Paul
I wonder if someone could advise me on this please? We are about to have a small extension put onto the front of our home, which will have a mono-pitch roof to just under the cils of the 1st floor bedrooms. The thing that is causing me abit of a headache at the moment is with ref to the existing house roof downpipes. Basically, they run into drains which will have to be moved as they will be covered by the new extension. The builder is proposing that the roof downpies will just drain onto the new roof extension and then down the new guttering and downpipes into the new drains, which will be tied back into the existing drains. I'm not that thrilled about that solution and have therefore been looking into other solutions and eventually came across the abutment soaker system which I think may be ideal as I also have an existing vertical wall that the new roof will butt up to.
My question is. Would it be feasible for the house roof downpipe to drain straight into the top of an abutment soaker and therefore become almost a 'hidden' roof drain/gutter? I can just imagine the builders proposal meaning that in time, I'll have a nice green and slimy strip running down the front of my new roof. Any suggestions? Am I barking up the wrong tree here? If abutment soakers are no good, is there anything else which would solve the issue?
Thanks
Paul