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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Gutters were not standard issue as far back as 2014 when my home was built. The only gutters installed on my home are those across the exits: the front door and out the lanai.
Many in the neighborhood have had them installed, I have not. If gutters were installed then all the water would be concentrated into one area. Either that area would thrive due to the extra water or it would die due to the concentration of <whatever> being washed off the roof. Without gutters the runoff is distributed around the house. Either my lawn benefits over the entire perimeter of my roof or any <whatever> is less concentrated and less likely to harm my lawn.
The only negative impact I have seen in the seven years I have owned the home is some washout where the water from the roof impacts the non-seeded areas behind the shrubs. Maintaining a layer of mulch take care of that by cushioning and absorbing the falling water.
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Well said. The Villages is built on sand, and the elevation of each home comes from building up sand. Sand drains. Gutters leads toward streets that have big drain pipes under them that can fill up during a big storm. That runoff from the gutters has to be treated, and treatment plants cost a lot of money. Your money!
I live in a twelve year old courtyard villa with gutters, so the water from the roof doesn’t hit my courtyard. Still, my courtyard is 3/4 concrete. There’s just a strip of garden along the side and back. When last summer my house got nine inches of water in one day, all of that water ran to the strip of garden and soaked in. There was never any accumulation on the concrete. The rainwater will soak into the aquifer. No further treatment required. That’s why the developer realized that gutters really aren’t needed here. It does save money, but that’s not the main reason.