Sentence examples for downspout from inspiring English sources
noun
A vertical pipe or conduit that carries rainwater from the scupper, guttering of a building to a lower roof level, drain, ground or storm water runoff system.
Mr. Kraeutler's co-host, Leslie Segrete, remembers when her basement was saturated after a downpour because a gutter was disconnected from a pipe and a downspout was clogged.
If you are near the downspout, insert a strainer (the one from Amerimax is $2.30) at the top, to keep leaves from forming a dam.
They collect rainwater from the downspout in empty kitty-litter jugs for the toilet.
"No you're not!" Iya cried, pointing to the blood gushing from my cuff like rain from a downspout.
Mr. Majorelle worked with a friend who owns a metal shop to build a wide copper pan, angled just below the downspout, to send water gushing into the garden.
Three days later, when a welcome storm sent rain cascading through the downspout that funnels water into this garden, Ms. Majorelle and Colin Schumacher, 29, a special-education teacher at the Earth School (P.S. 364) in Manhattan, took off their shoes and balanced over the rocks like children let loose in the country.
Vinyl compounds, which are substituted derivatives of ethylene, can also be polymerized according to the following reaction: Polymerization of vinyl chloride (where X is Cl) gives polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, more than 27 million metric tons of which is used globally each year to produce pipes, floor tiles, siding for houses, gutters, and downspouts.
Zinc sheet is used in the building trade, mainly in Europe, for roof cladding, gutters, downspouts, and flashing.
Polyvinyl chloride is used in siding for houses, shingles, gutters and downspouts, floor tiles, and pipes and fittings.
Cooking utensils, gutters, and downspouts also are made from 3XXX alloys.
Rainwater from roofs is usually caught in metal gutters and directed to exterior downspouts that discharge onto splash blocks or into underground drains connected to storm sewers.
