Why do McDonalds have no gutters?...just rainwater diverters at the drive through windows .....and about every other building in this country does ? .....
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McDonalds....
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"Jim GM4DHJ in the trailer park ..." wrote in message news:milk39$hr6$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me...
The downpipes are probably internal hence invisible. Common on flat roof buildings.
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A friend's house in Massachusetts also has no gutters.
Or rather, from what I can gather, the house has rather large gutters at ground level, filled with gravel.
AAMOI what are gutters for? To keep the water away from the foundations, or off the walls when it's windy? And away from nearby people, obviously.
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Best to have gutters at roof level then, to reduce the effect of the wind.
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But if there are no gutters at roof level, they never get blocked with leaves etc.
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Lets dismantle the house entirely, then. That would mean zero maintenance costs!
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YUP. If you have the overhang then gutters at high level are not required - and gutters at ground level area deal easier to clean
Walls can take a bit of water, its constant deluges from eg roof valleys that need to bee diverted away..
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A French drain?
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Andy Burns wrote in news:OoWdnbpJ snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk:
Most McDonalds have a flat roof with some air-con plant on the top. The pitched roof is a cosmetic trim to look "traditional".
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Along with the brick-effect plastic panels for walls, and wood-effect aluminium plant tubs.
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Are you sure about this? I would imagine its only new builds that are this way, so maybe they just happen to design it that way. Brian
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It ain't about maintenance costs, its about doing what reduces the amount of maintenance required.
Only a fool doesn?t do that.
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SFAIK, I have only eaten in McDonalds once and that was because they were the only eating place open in Verona on Christmas Eve. I don't recall the building not having gutters.
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Americans think McDonalds is a restaurant.........
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Do your McDonalds all have evaporative cooler air conditioning like Australia?