Roofing terminolgy?

I'm an old man. My teachers always referred to things in our area in exact terms. The Pole gutter. The outside was the Water Table, from the top of the pole to the drip edge. The gutter was on the inside, part of the roof. Does anyone have a different opinion?

Thanks for introducing different Roofing terminologies in a much better and interesting way. I need to find out here that how I will get my essay written on this topic which is pretty tough. When I will hire a firm to work on my roof then having a piece of basic information about these terminologies will surely help me.

SuhWEET stuff, Larry.

I really nerd out on your photos copperman.

Roofing nerd-out that is.

This is a finished look of that built in gutter This was a big job. Roof went around three side of the house.

No it's Larry. Thanks for the compliment. When some one nit pics me it's no sweet. I look at it this way, when your talking about me your leaving someone else alone. so I figure I'm doing a good deed then. As far as the gutter joints failing in the slate roof, it wont matter if you took an ice pick to it, it still wont leak by design!I laid it out to go between the slate coarses so if it leaked it would just run out from under it. I laid out all my pole gutter that way to coarse out between the rows. Seen to many cause a lot of damage when there not. As far as cleaning they rarely even get anything in them because the wind blows the debris away. They make great toe boards also!.

Easy to clean, I'll say that. Long as the joints on these guys don't break... Not many people can put something together like copperman. It's John, right? I may have nitpicked once or twice in the last decade, which is all of our right to do, but in case there was ever any misunderstanding I'm going on record here that you do flat-out amazing work. Love it.

Heres a rotting-soffit-waiting-to-happen gutters. After pic.

This is a pole gutter One I did on a wood shingle roof This one on a copper roof with a water table in front This is a built-in gutter

I see, Ciak, something like built-in gutter or yankee gutter or the long drawn-out term I have for them, rotting-soffit-waiting-to-happen gutters.

A pole gutter is a sheet metal lined gutter built into the roof just above the eaves. Mouldings are applied to the edge of the roof.

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I have never heard the term pole gutter and water table has always been something underground to me.