Gutters, man.  They?re typically so unattractive (to me anyway) but yet they serve such a vital function.  What if you could DIY a less obnoxious, less obvious, way less expensive, and way less labor-intensive gutter alternative" Well!  haHA, I am here to tell ya, you can!  Yay! Look, I am not claiming this idea is a substitute for gutters, especially in a deluge, so don?t get all up in my junk about that.  But it definitely is a viable option to redirect water from one area away to somewhere else. Years ago, and I kid you not, years ago, after we installed the spiffy awesome deck, I purchased gutter parts to catch the water running off the garage roof that drips straight down onto our deck. See, if it's raining, we get doused heading into and out of the garage.  The deck therefore gets extra soaked and that's not good for the wood.  Nor the longevity of the stain I laboriously applied.  Too, the awning we put up gets wetter than necessary. All disagreeable water-related issues. And so of course, as one naturally does, I immediately went water = gutters.   My intention was to put up one gutter along the deck side of the garage and have it drain into the godforsaken rain barrel I never use because I'm a terrible human and could use that water instead of hose water. As such, I was gonna have a delightful blog post about how to install...