Sizing a roof water drain.
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The down pipe can terminate in a shoe and discharge directly onto the surface but using modern construction techniques would be connected through an inspection chamber to a drain that led to a surface.
This will cause heavy drainage issues from your gutters and downspouts.
The next step is to determine each roof area that will be served by a separate leader drain pipe scupper or downspout.
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There are many possible parts of the roof potentially leaking but one of the most common ones is the area around the roof vent.
Gutter downspouts often carry huge amounts of water from a large area of the roof.
Rain water that runs down a plumbing vent pipe at the roof goes into the house drain system at a point past the traps at the plumbing fixtures that keep sewer gas out of the home and heads harmlessly out to the sewer or septic tank.
Water collected by a rain gutter is fed usually via a downpipe also called a leader or conductor from the roof edge to the base of the building where it is either discharged or collected.
The calculations below are meant for drainage from flat roofs where water are expected to spread over the entire flat roof during rain.
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The roof vent pipe is installed cut through the roof and around the pipe attached to the roof is surrounded with rubber boot as insulation for the gap between the pipe and roof.
The roof drainage outlets and rainwater downpipes are calculated based on the design principles for gravity drainage systems established in ss525 2006 code of practice for drainage of roofs.
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Vent pipe leaks during heavy rain can occur if you have cracks in your vent pipe boot or flashing.
The first step in sizing a roof drain is to calculate the surface area of the roof that the drains will be covering as well as the average hourly rainfall rate at the building location.