Our new neighbour was recently having new eavestroughs installed and we were able to use her contractor for a little work at our house too. We needed to add new eavestroughs to the 2 sides of the front porch and install bigger down spouts for the new eavestroughs to connect to.
Using our neighbours contractor was a bonus for us for many reasons:
-We got to check our the contractors work on our neighbours house and see the team in action.
-It was easy for them to add our small job onto their day working next door which made it cost efficient for us.
-We had time to look at the colour swatches and the grey was a direct match to our grey paint. How amazing is that, a perfect colour match!
-Our neighbours house has a flat roof and was missing a flap along the side to keep the water from spilling over. All the water from her roof was flowing onto ours, overwhelming our eavestroughs and downspouts and causing water to pool which then made it's way to our basement. When we talked to the contractor about what we needed to do to stop this on our side he said it had to be taken care of from our neighbours side. He walked her through the process and she decided to proceed with making the improvements (not part of her original plan). We are so appreciative of our new neighbour for solving this!!
barely visible on the sides of the front porch
So now all we need is a little rain to see how the work at our neighbours and our house improves the water situation. No rush for the rain though. Take your time mother nature.
3 comments:
We need to replace our eaves too. Can you please email me the name of your contractor?
Thanks
goodneighbour@hotmail.ca
haven't seen you around the blog lately. Hope everything's ok.
Those yellow Solair Chairs look awesome on the front porch with your yellow door! I have an orange one that I use inside my house. I just absolutly love the vintage fabulousness of these chairs! ~ Barbara
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