Greetings, DIY fans.

I need some help with a small DIY project...

I'm covering over a brick passageway to waterproof a wood store. All I am building is a sloped cover made out of that clear corrugated plastic, which will sit on top of a wooden frame.

The cover will be entirely within the passageway and will not overlap either of the two walls involved as they are too high. Wind whips down the passageway so the structure needs to be quite robust. That said, nothing will run down to floor level.

The cover needs guttering to run along the downslope side (along one of the walls). My question is - how to fit the guttering. Either it sits above the spars that will support the sheeting and I will need to thicken the spars at the downslope end to run underneath the guttering, or it sits below the spars and I have to waterproof the spars at the point where water flows past them and down to the guttering.

My feeling is that I am over-complicating this so am looking around for how people have tackled this problem... Any help?

Photos?

Originally Posted by vinniethemanxcat

Photos?

What of? I haven't made anything. Or do you propose I build a fuck up and then turn this into a teeth-sucking 'what you should have done' thread?

Imagine a 1.5m wide brick passageway with (for the sake of argument) 50' walls. I need to cover a 4m stretch of it.

Granted, it's a hard thing to describe...

Take a picture of the existing walls/passage and use Microsoft paint to 'draw in' what you are going to build. it may help with the visualisation.

Camm1

Can you not bracket the guttering to the walls to avoid having to alter the support for the sheeting?

In fact can you not orient the sheeting with the passageway so it is flush to the brickwork, maybe some watertight filler to seal. Then run the guttering across the passageway at the lower end. Wouldn't this reduce the amount of guttering and water exposed supporting structure?

Originally Posted by Junglynx

Can you not bracket the guttering to the walls to avoid having to alter the support for the sheeting?

In fact can you not orient the sheeting with the passageway so it is flush to the brickwork, maybe some watertight filler to seal. Then run the guttering across the passageway at the lower end. Wouldn't this reduce the amount of guttering and water exposed supporting structure?

From what you've said, I'd go with this. Pick one end t lower and run the corrugations along the walls rather than to them. So the water runs along the longer length. At the lower end, just fit a normal guttering to shunt the water to a collection bin for use in the garden or jus tlet it fall like a waterfall.

If you are only covering 4m of the passageway, why not slope the wriggly roof from end to end and have any guttering at the low end (obviously). PVC sheets are usually about 2m + long so you will need 2 with enough overlap. The width will be about right too.
Water only needs a 1 in 60 slope to run along so a steep grade isn't an issue.

Wood this be described as a wood SHED?

See what I did there?

I agree,

Run the sheeting along the passage, sealed at he walls and have a gutter at the entrance across the passage. I would install a drain pipe though, no point in just building a waterfall.

Happy building, cutting, bleeding and swearing.

Originally Posted by Flying Felix

Wood this be described as a wood SHED?

See what I did there?

I would call it a water SHED.