We had a new gutter etc fitted recently and since it was installed, when there is light rain, the small amouint of water falling down one of the downpipes drips and when it hits the bottom bend it is like the chinese water torture. It doesn't happen when the rain fall is heavier than a light shower.
Does anyone have any suggestions, please?

Our gutter is a continuous one all round the home and there are two down pipes, the one at the rear does not drip because I have an interceptor fitted for the water butt but the noisey one is right outside a bedroom window.


I did think of trying to make a small lip to fit in the hole in the gutter to stop any water going down unless there was more than, say, a ¼" in the gutter. The water below that level would flow to the other downpipe and run away down that one. Could someone tell me the inside dimensions of the square hole in the gutter where the downpipe conects.

Cheers for any info.

dave

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Put pads behind the down brackets.

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Cheers Scruff,
But it is where it drops down onto the final elbow at the bottom and the noise is coming through the window not through the wall, so dampening the brackets with pads would not stop the noise.

Unless I misunderstood you, you meant to pad out the brackets from the wall?

dave

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Think I may have solved it.

I had some plastic netting off an old fly screen from the back door.
I have screwed some of that into a ball and, having tried it under the tap, it lets water pass through with no problem, so I shoved the ball up the fall pipe.

Just had a very heavy shower and it lets the rain water pass through it OK and I could not hear it dripping onto the netting.

If it gets a lot of rain and is forced out, I may drill a couple of small holes just prior to the elbow and shove a bit of wire through the holes and through the ball of netting.

Fingers crossed.

dave

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