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2. How Often Do You You Really Need To Clean Your Gutters? - AOL

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   Specifically, cleaning the rain gutters that typically line your house. Why Houses Have Gutters. Gutters serve an important purpose for a home. They help redirect rain and melted sleet, hail, and ...

3. Rain gutter - Wikipedia

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   Water from rain gutters may be harvested in a rain barrel or a cistern. [20] Rain gutters can be equipped with gutter screens, micro mesh screens, louvers or solid hoods to allow water from the roof to flow through, while reducing passage of roof debris into the gutter. [21]

4. Box gutter - Wikipedia

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   A box gutter, internal gutter, parallel gutter, or trough gutter is a rain gutter on a roof usually rectangular in shape; it may be lined with EPDM rubber, metal, asphalt, or roofing felt, and may be concealed behind a parapet or the eaves, or in a roof valley. [1] [2] Box gutters are essentially placed between parallel surfaces, as in a valley ...

5. Rainwater tank - Wikipedia

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   A rainwater catchment or collection (also known as "rainwater harvesting") system can yield 1,000 litres (260 US gal) of water from 1 cm (0.4 in) of rain on a 100 m 2 (1,100 sq ft) roof. Rainwater tanks are installed to make use of rain water for later use, reduce mains water use for economic or environmental reasons, and aid self-sufficiency.

6. Home repair - Wikipedia

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   For example, at higher latitudes, even a clean rain gutter can suddenly build up an ice dam in winter, forcing melt water into unprotected roofing, resulting in leaks or even flooding inside walls or rooms. This can be prevented by installing moisture barrier beneath the roofing tiles. A wary home-owner should be alert to the conditions that ...

7. List of commercially available roofing materials - Wikipedia

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   The outer layer of a roof shows great variation dependent upon availability of material, and the nature of the supporting structure. Those types of roofing material which are commercially available range from natural products such as thatch and slate to commercially produced products such as tiles and polycarbonate sheeting. Roofing materials ...