Gutters overflow . . .
The Supa Gutter Pumper will stop overflows caused by- downpipes too far apart
- too much roof area for a single gutter
- poor practises when adding a new roofed area to the house
- extraordinary rainfall events
- poor gutter slope
The Supa Gutter Pumper
- offers a simple solution for difficult situations
- gives substantial cost savings
- will suck the water from your guttering
- has no moving parts
- is small
- is easy to fit
- is maintenance free
- is amazing
The Supa Gutter Pumper
- will not negate the need for normal downpipes
- will not remove leaves and debris from your gutters
- will not fix rusted guttering
As long as your guttering is well maintained, the Supa Gutter Pumper provides the solution to overflowing gutters
Suck it down . . . .
When it rains the water flows from the roof to the guttering and then the downpipes. With a Gutter Pumper installed in your guttering nothing changes during a normal rain event, the vast majority of water goes to the downpipes although when the water in the gutter reaches a depth of 5mm a small amount of water will also drop down the gutter pumper.
However, when the depth of the water exceeds 25mm it will be above the Supa Gutter Pumper's baffle, and the fun starts!
The baffle stops air spiralling down the pipe causing the pipe to flow syphonically full of water (the effect of gravity on FULL FLOW generates a vacuum that sucks water into the outlet at high velocity, increasing flow rates by up to 1,000%).
Rainwater is sucked into the Gutter Pumper so fast that water reverse flows towards the Gutter Pumper and lowers water levels, preventing the gutters overflowing.
Some of the biggest roof areas on stadiums and warehouses in the world use syphonic (siphonic) drainage to efficiently deal with heavy rain events. A quick search on google will verify there are many large companies investing in this technology. Aquatrek has no relationship with these companies, neither the Supadiverta nor the Gutter Pumper is in this industrial league, and both were developed independently here in Australia. The underlying technique, technology and logic is the same, get the air out of the pipework and you can move more water faster.
This search will throw up videos and examples of how it works, why it works, and where is has been implemented!!
You can have it too!!
Bad by design . . . .
So why do clean gutters overflow?
- it may simply be too far between downpipes
- the downpipes may be poorly positioned
- roof valleys can concentrate flow to where there are no downpipes
- multi-storey houses frequently have concentrated flows from upper storeys
- non-compliance is common
- some additions to homes can over-tax existing guttering
- localised high intensity storm cells are becoming more frequest
Your gutters may overflow through no fault of your own. The rules and regulations on guttering and downpipes vary across Australia, not always understood or not implemented correctly and few new home installations are properly inspected.
The regulations arguably also fall short, the Building Code of Australia only requires your guttering to cope with a 1 in 20 year heavy rain event of x mm of rain over an hour based on a 5 minute average rain intensity duration. Global warming has arrived and intense rainfall events are becoming more frequent. We are going to increasingly see what are still deemed to be 1 in 100 year rain events. Your gutters are not designed to deal with these downfalls.
The Supa Gutter Pumper is great protection for your property.
Drop it in, tighten the nut . . . .
Drill a 32mm hole in the flat bottom of your gutter
Drop the Supa Gutter Pumper into the hole
Fit the nut underneath the gutter and tighten
To take the water away, use 20mm pvc pressure pipe, push it into the Gutter Pumper and using vertical and horizontal drops, plumb it under the eve and then down the wall. Fit additional pipe to connect to the closest downpipe, tank or suitable discharge area.
Be warned, the water moves VERY fast, more than one ornamental fish pond and garden bed has been severely damaged by the high flow, high pressure water being ejected from the pipe as it is sucked from the roofline.
You can purchase all required components from the Gutter Pumper website, you will find clips for attaching pipework to the wall, couplings for joining pipes and elbows for changing the pipe's direction plus a large variety of other fittings. There is even a great value 32mm hole saw!!