Wooden guttering ??

[ss]

OK I could go and buy a piece of plastic guttering but I am on a roll at the moment as I have just rebuilt my shed relaid a back garden of 2x3 slabs and built my fence from my next door neighbours old one.(only his posts were gone) So I need some guttering for my shed, its only 8x5` and guttering only required for one side so I thought why not make it out of wood thinking fence slats last for years so why not a piece of guttering and I have an assortment of wood lengths from my projects. I was thinking of just routering out a channel and then shaping the external with a planer or sander to suit and also thought about using 2 litre plastic bottles for the downpipe, with the bottoms cut off they slot into each other quite nicely. Cheapskate...Yes but its DIY and its fun.

Your thoughts.

[meow2222]

NT

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Go for it, why not. Give it a coat of pitch, or something.

[harry]

In days of yore lots of guttering was wood. My first house had wooden guttering. It was rotten, I replaced it all but it was clearly very old. But the wood we get now is crap, I think you are wasting your time. Plastic bottles soon deteriorate in daylight.

[F Murtz]

Just drop a chain from the gutter and the water runs down that.

[F Murtz]

[PeterC]

Yes - single pitch, though.