Parapet is beautiful as it hides your roof edge but debris and dead leaves get stuck in the parapet walls and gutters so fast…
With a parapet roof design people would even wonder where your roof go or how you keep the rainwater flowing as it hides your roof edge and gutter. Parapet and gutters really make your building beautiful but all sorts of debris and dead leaves if there are trees around can easily gather in the parapet walls acting as leaf and debris catcher then immediately clogging up your gutters and blocking water passage towards your downspouts and causing serious harm to ceiling and building occupants.
To keep your beautiful building design you will have to have someone regularly cleaning up your gutters removing debris and dead leaves to prevent clogging, or if you can, better yet trim the trees or cut them, but if you don’t own the trees, more work is needed. If the trees belong to your neighbors, then you will have to place a net around your roof to easily prevent leaves and debris from clogging your gutters, but then eventually the net could rot without you knowing then your back to water seepage on your ceilings again.
When you get tired of regularly cleaning your gutters and debris and or dead leaves, you might want to opt for a free flowing roof with no gutters, but you could also destroy your concrete pavement over time as rain water can cause holes on your concrete pavement, and a free flowing roof with no gutter is sometimes even illegal in come localities – best to check your local ordinances for acceptable roof designs. Sometimes you will want to decide which is easier for you – regularly cleaning up your gutter or fixing a holed concrete pavement?
Rain water does not easily break your concrete pavement. It will take about 3 years for rain water to cause holes in your concrete pavement, and cleaning your gutter takes a weekly routine. Thus you might want to decide that having a free flowing roof design is cheaper to maintain than having to pay someone to regularly clear your gutters. Besides, having someone regularly climb up your roof could also cause damage on your roofing.
Back to the clogged gutters, hopefully the leaves have not gone down to your downspouts. If your downspouts are connected directly to an embedded or buried drainage, more work might be required. To avoid having to dig your drainage, you can simply cut the wall downspout and condemn your buried drainage way to remove the clogged debris and then you will have to content with an open downspout spilling directly on your driveway…
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