Wooden guttering ??

Apr 21, 2013 6 Replies

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.


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

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.

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

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