Attaching guttering to shed

[aquilegia]

Any hints/tips? I'm a useless DIYer, but too cheap to pay a man who does!

My waterbutt arrived yesterday and now I have to buy the guttering and attach it to the shed. Fortunately the roof slopes down to the back, so I only need one lot of guttering.

Should it be level or slightly slope down to the butt?

I'm not even sure if the shed is level!

[aquilegia]

[moonbells]

I did this a few weeks ago.  Bought one gutter, one end stop (slotted on), and one downpipe end stop (again slotted on).  Two clip-in brackets were fixed to the shed underneath the bottom edge of the roof, making sure that they protruded enough to catch a stream of water.  Clipped on the gutter, bingo.

Admittedly I did cheat with the downpipe - a bendy pipe fixed to a small plant pot which was tied with string onto the downpipe end stop, so it's all a bit Heath Robinson. But it let me pull the flexipipe to over the butt. Oh and yes the gutter needs to slope down to the downpipe end. I wouldn't just leave the end unstopped so the water falls straight into the butt. With a downpipe piece, you know where the water will land.

I found my roof was a bit too far forward, so attaching the bracket straight to the wall would have meant the gutter was totally shaded by the overhang. So I had to screw on a couple of small bits of wood first.

moonbells