Posted on by Kurtis Hord

The book on “box gutters” never ends

My First day “on the job” in building, for Tom Boone, we were restoring a big wide cornice 60 feet up with a built in gutter. That was New Years day, 2007. It has been the most requested help item from the beginning of my career till, last week! The dang things seem to be so elusive for folks to understand without a historic preservation degree or decades in the field…

Allow me to share my attempts to capture the parts and pieces of the cornice gutter with some rude modeling..

The original book on box gutters:

http://quo-animo.blogspot.com/2008/10/book-on-box-gutters.html

simple box gutter with roof decking and gutter boards removed. the fascia is nailed up first to align all of the lookouts. once the fascia is aligned, and nailed all the lookouts are nailed into final position.
here with the “shelf” and crown molding added next. the trough is ready for pitching and gutter board.
an alternate arrangement for gable-end, showing a “yankee” gutter which is on the roof deck rather than a separate gutter on lookouts.