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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen to your builder, who is thinking about practicality and durability. Your architect is thinking about how a photo of the job will look on his website. Most architects are idiots. [/quote] Harsh, but architects do lack practical judgment -- a friend lives in a house previously built and occupied by an architect, who didn't like the look of gutters[/quote] There’s no problem with no gutters - plenty of high end custom homes are surrounded by French drains. It’s a more complicated design and requires more site work but it’s not automatically a problem.[/quote] French drains are a sign of failed design. This house had them, our house has them, and they mean that you're moving water from where it shouldn't have been in the first place. In our case, because the house was built on a near-swamp, in my friend's case, because the architect had A Vision. [/quote]
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