This weekend our church bulletin mentioned that there will be a capital campaign because the church roof is leaking due to deterioration of the Yankee Gutters. Of course, to me this concept was more interesting than the sermon (usually anything is), so when I got home I looked up Yankee gutters. Interesting concept.
There is some info out there, mostly in home restoration web-sites as you may expect - as I understand it, there sort of two types of these kind of guttering: box gutters (where the gutter is build into a wooden cornice, right at the roof edge), and Yankee (or Philadelphia?) Gutters, which look like a shelf set near but not at the end of the roof, and kind of parallel to the edge (w/ a bit of a slope, of course)… In either case, normally the gutter is metal lined, copper lining seems most common.
As you may guess, these gutters were common in older buildings (no vinyl or aluminium gutters in the Colonial era), or newer buildings that need to conform in historical districts. Restorers and contractors seem to hate them, judging by their on-line comments, stating they are a major source of leaks and require frequent maintainence (which they apparently don’t often get - then firemen claim they are a dangerous menance!). I’m thinking, modeling older buildings in Philadelphia (come on, they’re also called Philadelphia Gutters as I mentioned), gotta have one or two buildings w/ these - some on-line images the copper looks great (when new, of course).
- Who has modeled Yankee Gutters? Who has modeled Box Gutters (I like this style better, looks cooler and more intergrated into the building). Model buildings only, I have no desire to switch from good old new vinyl guttering for my home.
- What did you