If Dr. Suess designed downspouts
January 16, 2009
If you hate cleaning gutters and downspouts, be thankful you don't live here.
The rain collection system on this German home may be whimsical--or wacky, depending on your viewpoint--but it's not boring.
The downspouts are a carefully designed collection of galvanized-steel pipes and large funnels that carry rainwater from the gutter at the roof's edge down--eventually--to the city's storm drains.
At one point rainwater passes through a "trumpet," and then spills over a series of open troughs before emptying into a funnel attached to a vertical length of drain pipe.
Posted by Joseph Truini | Categories: Wacky Products | Permalink
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That's hilarious! And the neat thing is that it actually works.
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