The Issue
These guttering facia systems were installed for many decades until the building code deemed them inadequate and problematic, however not before they were installed on hundreds of thousands of homes.
(1) This junction is lapped over the top of the facias top rounded edge and is often roughly riveted and gaping open allowing rain water in and down the wrong side of the guttering and straight into the interior soffit structure.
(2) The back of the guttering is lower than the front, when there is heavy deluge or the drain path gets blocked the gutter will fill up and spill over the back and down into the inside of the soffit cavity and timber structure.
(3) The way almost all homes are built are the soffit is installed prior to the building paper, cladding or brick underneath. These soffits are often dead flat but almost always have a very slight inwards fall. So when water spills into this area from failure of the guttering above it flows back and behind the building paper and STRAIGHT into the buildings timber structure, and because water always wants to flow downwards, the water ingress will slowly make its way down the walls timber structure, rotting it as it sits there.
(4) The manufacturer’s punched drain holes ALWAYS clog up as they are too small.
Until recently the only option to stop this from happening to your home was a total guttering, facia and soffit replacement costing anywhere between $25,000 to $80,000! Until the DrainAway Gutter Tray was born!
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