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What amazes me is the fact that they’ve use various drill bit sizes to do the job… or different gun calibers, either way. Redneck art, that is.
unless it’s cigarette or soldering iron burns in a plastic gutter, which would explain the black smudges. The other question, “why?” is left unanswered but it might be like the guy from Texas posits. Or it’s someone got psycho one day.
The black smudges are caused by such things as dirt, smog, tree sap or debris, etc. When it rains, it washes all the crap off the roof. It’s common in areas where it doesn’t rain that often, or there is a lot of smog.
My first thought was that it was plastic left under someone welding.
The “why” you’re looking for is to give the porch a “raining” effect during, say, a rainshower. It’s that simple.
Or, a more practical answer would be that they are really lazy gardeners with a flowerbed lining the house.
Why would someone drill holes in his/her gutter?
ill thought out design.
“Check it out honey! I’ve drilled holes in the gutter, so that way when it rains, it will drip out of the gutters and look like it’s…raining…dammit”
Stupidity.
My brother did that once when he was a teenager. Poked holes all along the gutters with a nail. Thought he was really damn clever, too. My father thought differently. :-/
It makes the gutters self cleaning.
One reason is to stop the gutters from overflowing and pouring water over the eaves lining into the house.
Maybe it was the chocolate rain?
No, the pencil rain.
(They Might Be Giants reference)
A “hail” of bullets?
Attic venting: you’re doing it wrong
This isn’t a kludge or a rig. It’s a gutter with holes in it. It hasn’t fixed anything or solved any problem. This crap shouldn’t have been voted onto the main page.
Wipe the spittle off your monitor… it’s just a humo(u)r website.
Oh, and in the civilized world we call them eavestroughes. A gutter is where the street meets the sidewalk.
Click my name and check out entry number 2.
And, “eaves troughs” (2 words, not 1), is fairly antiquated and rarely used anymore except in a fairly small portion of the US.
How do you know it wasn’t an attempt at solving a problem? You FAIL!!!
Find an easier way to water plants: Check
Make some ‘art’: Check
Do it for as little as possible: Check
I’ll say it again: redneck fine art and nothing else.
This has inspired me to take care of my frequent pine needle and twigs problem once and for all. I’ll cut out the entire bottom of the gutter so all that debris just falls through!
GENIOUS!!!
It worked carpet bombing with lose change has finally been realized.
And I taught the acid rain problem was thing of the past!
Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first! Read the title first!
Jeeezs, relax, kid.
Acid Rain…
Treat your gutters or you’ll feel the pain-
Acid Rain…
Plastic bubbles like a cheap champagne-
Acid Rain…
Housing value brings neighborhood shame-
Acid Rain…
You should turn this into a song and copyright it and then get rich.
Agreed, was my first thought. Acid Hail.
The homeowner wanted to do something about the horrible erosion in his yard occurring at the end of each downspout. He tried to come up with a way to disperse the rainwater in a more even fashion. As he was eating his ham and swiss on rye, the idea came to him. However, I can see a number of holes in this guy’s plan.
You could be more right than you think. I read in some areas (Texas?) the ground around a house gets so dry that it pulls away from the foundation – leading to structural problems. It is typical to have irrigation installed in order to keep the ground from getting too dry around the house. This could be the cheap fix. Just taking the gutters off would cause the rain to run off in a line rather than sprinkle gently around the foundation.
In the Denver area, it’s the opposite as the area has “expansive soil”. If it gets wet, it can expand and damage the foundation. The norm is to avoid plants, bushes, etc. within 3′ of your foundation, thereby avoiding watering said bushes.
We have expansive soil in much of Texas, too. The trick is actually to keep the moisture content steady, neither dried out or wetter (it shrinks as well as expanding.) Because of eaves, proper grading away from the house, and due to hot dry weather, there is often a need to water a foundation in Texas in order to maintain the same moisture content the soil had when the structure was added.
I think you’ve got it, Smitty. Also, for farms with livestock and electric fences, you need to have a row of ground rods. The ground around them needs to be kept moist, or the fence will have very little charge.
Sounds reasonable, but how does that give you this erratic mess of holes? Wouldn’t you just go in a straight line with an awl?
Random sprinkles are what you want. You don’t want it to drip in a line. Or else it will erode a trough out of the ground below. If you wanted that you could just remove the gutter.
Perhaps a way to water the greenery planted close to the house?
could this be a cleaning agent too harsh for the plastic. First thought was rock salt tossed on the roof to melt snow (no S*#&% in the winter months). The paint job does scream redneck.
I always felt acid treating roof shingles was not needed. Now you see why.
The rains came and the acid was in the drill sargent’s mind
He should get his mind out of the gutter.
Sign number 4 that you are living next to a volcano: Portions of your house have been melted away. If it happens more than once a year, you may want to consider moving, as the volcano could very well be active.
Be careful of our location, even when firing your gun upwards!
Dogmeat may be right – notice how deep those eaves are? This may actually be drip-line management in an area that doesn’t have drainage problems as such, but is subject to erosion. There are parts of the country where homes don’t *have* basements, and both sandy soil and deep eaves (shade against sun) are features.
The holes seem way too large to be for dripping, but at least the rain won’t leave a trench.
Those can’t be bullet holes… but certainly laser beam holes! :O
From the laser gun fight with the zombies.
I hate roof zombies.
Worst kind of zombies.
If they don’t kill you first, they’ll give you shingles.
What you don’t see is the flower garden below the gutters. This is actually an ingenious system for watering your flower garden with rainwater.
Of course, after the foundation erodes, you will need those flowers to cover up the damage.
Ethel! ETHEL! What the hell have you been feeding the damn pigeons?
Nice. Very nice. First comment to make me lol.
Ah, corrosive bird droppings again. One of our local car dealers was blaming such dropping for causing paint to peel on new cars.
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Never feed bird hot peppers.
I think this may be damage from pigeons or other avians rather than acid rain.
Need the holes there so the gutters don’t get too heavy in severe storms. Don’t want the gutters collapsin!!
Damn! The AK-47 malfunctioned again!
Deffenetly work with a torch while the gutter was not attached. Several reasons why one would do this, all leading to the water spreading more evenly.
Organic gardening at its best
metal munching moon mice
Mighty nice.
No, that’s “mighty mice”. Or, “mighty roof rats”.
I’m thinking acid but not rain. Dude just got on a trip and went crazy with that soldering gun.
See the berry tree?
Berries are highly acidic.
Gutter aluminum is not high-grade stuff. It has weak spots.
Acid from decomposing berries will eat though the weak spots over time.
Okay, so knotty pine gutters were a bad idea…
Holy meltdown Batman…our vinyl gutter cannot stop the evil comet storm or cigarette butt burns.
Did they die????
Forget raining cats and dogs, we just had METEOR SHOWERS!
Continuous gutter making machine went on the fritz again.
Looks like the squirrels are trying to find a new way to sort their nuts.
hey thats the same building this came from !
http://thereifixedit.com/2010/02/27/epic-kludge-photoshocking-display-of-green-energy/
Well, down at their place, when ever Mortimer let his wife down in some way, he would go out and put a bullet through the eaves with his old Colt. Mortimer is 75 now.
Looks like an open garage door with self-made vents to me.
This appears to be the underside of a deck, based on what appears to be pressure treated wood
if this doesn’t convince you about the affects of pollution, then what will?
looks like they tossed rock salt on the roof to remove “ice dams” and what was left ate the gutters up. (imho)