The water falling from the roof can also splash on the walls and damage the siding or it may enter basements and crawl spaces.
Gutterless sloped roofs with gravel.
The gravel provides a better grip for foot traffic when conducting maintenance or repairs.
French drains and improving grading slope.
You can excavate the area around your house to improve your grade slope and add a ditch that is back filled with sand or gravel that slopes and drains away from the house.
In this manner all rain water and or melted snow from the roof of the structure and any wind driven rain or snow that might strike the sides of the.
These problems are all taken care of by fixing gutters at the edges of a roof which trap water flowing down the slope and direct them to underground drains via a pipe called a downspout.
Most sloping roofs can accommodate a rain chain even without a gutter.
Since roof slopes will vary from home to home so will the trajectory of the water that streams from a roof through a crevice or crease during a storm.
Built up roofs or burs also called a tar and gravel roof is a well established and popular style of flat roof that is made up of alternating layers of roofing felt or fiberglass and asphalt that is applied with heat which combine to make a long lasting sturdy roofing system.
Study your roof and how it expels rain water before you install your gutterless rain chain.