Our House

When we first built our garden, Katie ran out and got a 25ft hose for us to water all our delicious vegetables with. Unfortunately, the house only has one spigot outside - on the side of the house, almost to the front - so the hose was pretty useless! Fortunately we had a super-rainy summer, so we never had to worry about watering, and so we never bothered to buy an extra hose to attach to the first. Instead, we decided to install a rain barrel right next to the veggie garden for next spring!

We bought some inexpensive vinyl gutters, and installed them in about an hour:

They use these slide-in hooks which you screw onto wherever they’re going; in our case, the garage.

The gutters come in 10 foot long pieces, so we had to buy three and cut one down to fit it (the garage is 22’).

Installation is easy - just use a drill to drive in the screws on the plastic hooks, and then use a joining piece when connecting lengths of gutter. We used silicone to seal any leaks.

It’s a bit of a mess at the end - we had to tilt the gutter down slowly along the length of it to make sure it drains - and with all the cut pieces at the end it ended up looking a little weird. But it works!

It’s missing a piece directing water to the barrel - but otherwise good to go! An easy and quick Sunday afternoon project!