Collecting rain water
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On my new plot, I am inheriting a rather odd shed. It has a wrap around corrugated iron roof, which effectively means the sides and the roof are in the form of an inverted "U". I want to collect rain water off of this, since on site water is expensive. The problem is that there is nothing to hang guttering from; even if I was able to erect guttering, the use of corrugated iron would mean that half the water would disappear into the "gullies" (because you cannot get the guttering snug up against the roof). The solution would be to erect a free standing guttering with downpipes feeding water containers, but to do this, I would probably have to somehow put flat sheets of corrugated iron onto the existing roof, effectively turning it into a triangle. Has anybody been faced with a similar situation in the past and solved the problem? (PS the shed looks like an Anderson Shelter, but isn't really!)
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Go to your local DIY store, armed with a cardboard template of the corrugations.
Folk make car ports of corrugated plastic sheet.
The diy place should (in one of them anyway, try Wickes) sell clear corrugated plastic, along with that should be the bits for aligning/mating it to the brick wall.
Flat sheet plastic, turning into corrugated plastic with a 45 degree (or near) angle in it.
If the template fits buy it, else use self-adhesive lead flashing and alot of patiance.
Either route should give you the setp-out to get the water off the roof into the gutter, how yoy fix the gutter is up to you, a baten perhaps fixed at each end, or free-standing on posts.
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Folk make car ports of corrugated plastic sheet.
The diy place should (in one of them anyway, try Wickes) sell clear corrugated plastic, along with that should be the bits for aligning/mating it to the brick wall.
Flat sheet plastic, turning into corrugated plastic with a 45 degree (or near) angle in it.
If the template fits buy it, else use self-adhesive lead flashing and alot of patiance.
Either route should give you the setp-out to get the water off the roof into the gutter, how yoy fix the gutter is up to you, a baten perhaps fixed at each end, or free-standing on posts.
Doh, the inspirons are hitting the brain tonight.
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plastic corrugated comes in two similar but different profiles one to fit galanised sheeting and the other to fit asbestos sheeting. you can make approximations of the angle plates from a foot long length of sheet and a large hammer. alternativly try a commercial roofing supplier in yellow pages. pop rivets or self tapping screws through the top of the corrugations (with sealant) are the easiest ways of fixing.