Greenhouse gutter related products and set up

[Lamboluke]

Thrilling topic of choice I know, but just wondered what set ups you have when it comes to guttering in your greenhouse.

Due to my neighbours tree dropping no end of leaves onto my greenhouse and inevitably into the gutter I managed to pick up the gardman gutter guard you see below (can't remember it's actual name) for £2.99 from Steven smiths in Otley. Should have been £8.00. Was great. Hardly used any of it as its twice if not three times wider than I needed so I cut it in half and it works great for stopping all the crap going into the gutters.

I also picked up the rainwater kit on eBay for £11.00 for two. Perfect!

Just need a proper water butt and I'll channel it in from both sides and hay presto.

[Lamboluke]

The grass inside the greenhouse is temporary btw. Just waiting on flags.

[arpoet]

My greenhouses are under trees and I soon found that any water from the roofs soon turned foul. I no longer save that water, but do have 4 butts that collect rainwater from the house roof and that is always fresh smelling.

[Bren In Pots]

My guttering was done on the cheap with ideas from Bigmallly most of the pipe was leftovers from plumbing jobs and the fish pond filtering system.

We used 32mm kitchen plumbing pipes joined to the GH gutter by cutting 2 slots in a pipe and pushing that in place with a bit of mastic so it doesn't leak.

[Lamboluke]

That's a cracking looking set up! Looks Bob on!

[veggiechicken]

Here's mine cobbled together with vacuum cleaner hose and pipes
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1174809

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Looking at the gutter guard, it gave me a thought.

I have some bellcast beading kicking about and I am sure that could be fashioned to do the same job of keeping leaves and other debris out of a greenhouse gutter. I'll size it up and see.

Costs about £3 for 3m lengths from a builder's merchants.

[NatalieCooke]

I know this is an older thread but Bren shared a link to it & I wanted to add it.

The gutter guard which Lamboluke used can be bought from Poundland its 6 metres by 16cm called gutter mesh I found it on the DIY section on Sunday.

[Damian Jay]

This very subject was one that puzzled me for a while.
My aim: to collect rainwater from BOTH gutters and have it feeding into one water butt on the left side of the greenhouse. So first stop, I purchased two rainwater gutter kits from B&Q a couple of days ago (Link to product: B&Q Grey Plastic Greenhouse Rainwater Guttering Kit | Departments | DIY at B&Q )
The only part I used was the small part with the down spout that sits in the gutter, the long tube was no good on the side furthest away from the water butt. The side nearest the water butt was too long.

So off to the drawing board I went, and promptly got a bit stuck.
While playing about with writing my new bubble show (bear with this it's a little random sounding, but not when you have the job I do) and working out what things I could do in the show that would get great audience reactions, I called a friend and asked him if I could make up my own version of one of his props. He said yes, I said how do I make it? lol. He sent me the plans and BINGO! the guttering problem was solved.

His prop and subsequently, the greenhouse guttering was made up out of very thin plumbing pipe and joints.
I used 4 x 90 degree elbow bends, 1 x T piece and 2 lengths of 2 metre pipe.

Here's the pictures. I hope it's clear, if not ask me questions :-)
The first shows the configuration of the corner joints which are attached to the grey downspout.
Second is a different view of the first.
Third shows the position of the 't' piece and the smaller section of pipe which goes into the water butt.
Fourth shows the assembled unit ready to install on the greenhouse.
And the last shows the completed unit installed onto the greenhouse.

[Kristen]

I have a piece of guttering across the back of my greenhouse, and the gutters on each side have short downpipes into the gutter (actually the "downpipes" are spouts made from a small sheet of lead)

The gutter is easy to clear if leaves and muck get into the system.