I posted about this an age ago and people asked for pictures. Now that construction is moving forward I finally have some.
Here's my issue. I have a section between two dormers that is essentially marooned from a guttering pov. Look at the pic and it will make sense. Rain falls down that middle section straight in front of the garage and splashes onto/underneath/thru the sides of the doors. I have to do something to keep the rain away from the front of the garage doors. Here are the options I am considering:
- Running guttering straight down from the middle section to the space between the middle and right garage opening - not very favorable as I think it will look odd with the pipe coming down in the middle of the wall and it will mean having to lose the exterior light in that space (not in the pic but there are lights either side of each garage door)
- Same as 1 except jog the downspout from the middle section off to the right of the garage doors (where it can probably join one coming down from the right hand section). This too, I think, will be pretty ugly
- Use a rain diverter to keep as much rain as possible out of the middle section - would have to be high up to channel to the sides of the dormers....would probably only address half or less of the water. Another concern would be it getting ripped off with heavy snows as they slip down in a thaw.
- Build some form of canopy above the doors to protect them from the rain. This is looking like my favorite option right now, but I'm struggling to think of a good way to do this that will not look odd. The most obvious way I guess is to build an "eyebrow" all the way across with an overhang the same or slightly more than the one above on the main roof, and add guttering. I've googled around but not found many other decent solutions.
Any ideas anyone has will be greatly appreciate. As it is today I get a lot rain splashing into the garage doors and into the garage. I can improve the seals under the doors etc, but I don't think that's ever going to be a proper solution.
TIA