It does not mat­ter whether you sheathed the house with sid­ing, fac­ing stone, cov­ered with plas­ter or the facade is built of brick. Every build­ing needs a drainage sys­tem. They are made even in baths and gaze­bos.

Oth­er­wise, after a cou­ple of sea­sons, the foun­da­tion will begin to suf­fer from water, there will be high humid­i­ty in the house, and elec­tri­cal wiring can eas­i­ly fail. Solu­tion: install a drainage sys­tem as soon as pos­si­ble.

The gut­ter sys­tem is a con­struc­tor, from which, as a rule, one or anoth­er ele­ment can­not be exclud­ed. Usu­al­ly, the fol­low­ing ele­ments are includ­ed in the basic com­po­si­tion of the drainage sys­tem (from top to bot­tom):

In 2022, there are a lot of good man­u­fac­tur­ers of drainage sys­tems on the domes­tic mar­ket, we will tell you about the best of them.

Editor’s Choice

TECHNONICOL

The leader of the domes­tic and one of the lead­ers of the Euro­pean build­ing mate­ri­als mar­ket. The com­pa­ny pro­duces some of the best drainage sys­tems, in total there are five lines in its cat­a­log, each meets GOST R. This is a rar­i­ty in the Russ­ian drainage mar­ket in 2022.

• TN Opti­ma (plas­tic drainage sys­tem OPTIMA 120/80). Gut­ter 120 mm, pipe 80 mm. The cat­a­log has the fol­low­ing col­ors: white, gray, dark brown, black. Suit­able for small build­ings. 10 year war­ran­ty. The ser­viced roof area is 73 sq.m (if the fun­nel is locat­ed at the edge of the slope) or 146 sq.m (the loca­tion of the fun­nel in the mid­dle of the slope).

• TN PVC (plas­tic drainage sys­tem TECHNONICOL 125/82). Gut­ter 125 mm, pipe 82 mm. through­put of 88 sq.m (if the fun­nel is locat­ed at the edge of the slope) or 176 sq.m (fun­nel in the mid­dle of the slope). It is pre­sent­ed in col­ors: white, green, brown, red, gray, dark brown, black.

• TN MAXI (plas­tic drainage sys­tem MAXI 152/100). A pre­mi­um PVC prod­uct that can with­stand heavy snow loads and the heav­i­est down­pours. Gut­ter 152 mm, pipe 100 mm — thanks to these char­ac­ter­is­tics, the through­put is very high. Suit­able for roofs of large areas: Capac­i­ty: 100 sq.m. m. (if the fun­nel is from the edge of the slope) and for roofs up to 200 sq.m (fun­nel in the mid­dle of the slope). Sold in col­ors anthracite, white, snow white, brown, graphite gray. War­ran­ty 15 years.

• TN MVS STANDARD (met­al drainage sys­tem 125/90). Gut­ter 125 mm, pipe 90 mm. Made of 0.55 mm thick gal­va­nized steel with indus­tri­al grade poly­ester coat­ing on both sides. 10 year war­ran­ty.
• TN MVS (met­al drainage sys­tem 125/90). The sys­tem is made of 0.55 mm thick gal­va­nized steel. Out­side cov­ered with polyurethane, which gives addi­tion­al strength and pro­tects against ultra­vi­o­let radi­a­tion. Does not require glue and sealant dur­ing instal­la­tion, seal­ing rub­ber bands are already glued into the gut­ter con­nec­tors. Gut­ter 125 mm, pipe 90 mm. It is pro­vid­ed with an increased war­ran­ty peri­od of 25 years against through cor­ro­sion.

Cus­tomers praise TECHNONICOL for the ease of instal­la­tion of the drain, sta­ble qual­i­ty, con­ve­nient and reli­able pack­ag­ing. The com­pa­ny’s prod­uct port­fo­lio includes a large selec­tion of gut­ter sys­tems of dif­fer­ent through­put — that is, you can choose for a roof of any size. It is also impos­si­ble not to note a large palette of col­ors: in addi­tion to the stan­dard white, gray and brown, some lines are avail­able, for exam­ple, in dark graphite, green, red, black coat­ings. Plas­tic gut­ter sys­tems are ide­al­ly com­bined in col­or with TECHNONICOL spot­lights.

Edi­tor’s Choice

Plas­tic drainage sys­tems TECHNONICOL

Suit­able for large and small roofs

Gut­ters com­ply with the require­ments of GOST R, have an aes­thet­ic design, a wide range of col­ors, the man­u­fac­tur­er gives a guar­an­tee of 10 — 25 years

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Pros and cons

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Rating of the top 9 manufacturers of drainage systems according to KP

1.Docke

“Deke” (as the name is pro­nounced) is made at fac­to­ries in the Moscow region and the Vladimir region. Their cat­a­log includes gut­ters made of plas­tic (PVC range) and steel (STAL).

Steel — one line of four col­ors (choco­late, ice cream, chest­nut, graphite). Pipes with a diam­e­ter of 90 mm, with a wall thick­ness of 0.68 m. Made of gal­va­nized steel with a poly­mer coat­ing, that is, they have a thin lay­er of plas­tic on the out­side that rein­forces (that is, “strength­ens”) the steel and gives it col­or.

The com­pa­ny’s plas­tic line of drainage sys­tems is divid­ed into three types. They dif­fer from each oth­er in the size of the gut­ters and pipes, and hence the through­put. There­fore, depend­ing on the area of ​​the roof, a sys­tem of the appro­pri­ate size is select­ed. The guar­an­tee for all options is 25 years, regard­less of the cli­mate zone, although some man­u­fac­tur­ers intro­duce dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion.

• stan­dard. Pipe diam­e­ter 80 mm, wall thick­ness 1.7 mm, gut­ter 120 mm.
• Pre­mi­um. Pipe diam­e­ter 85 mm, wall thick­ness 1.8 mm, gut­ter 120 mm.
• Lux. Pipe diam­e­ter 100 mm, wall thick­ness 2.2 mm. Also, a chute with an increased diam­e­ter of 141 mm.

The dif­fer­ence in price between the first and third line is one and a half to two times. But if Lux comes only in three col­ors (“choco­late”, “graphite”, “ice-cream”), then Pre­mi­um can also be cho­sen in “chest­nut” (in addi­tion to those col­ors of the LUX line), and the bud­get Stan­dard in its col­or palette is red, green , grey, white brown.

In reviews, buy­ers some­times com­plain about the dif­fi­cul­ty of instal­la­tion at the junc­tion of the gut­ters.

Pros and cons

2. Grand Line

A large com­pa­ny is a man­u­fac­tur­er of build­ing mate­ri­als with nine fac­to­ries in Rus­sia. The main empha­sis is on sell­ing through their brand­ed stores. Pro­duce met­al and plas­tic gut­ter sys­tems.

The met­al ones are cov­ered with a lay­er of polyurethane with polyamides — this gives col­or. The cat­a­log is quite volu­mi­nous, each mod­el has its own set of col­ors — in addi­tion to the tra­di­tion­al white, brown and gray, there are rare ones like green, pink and oth­ers. On request, pow­der coat­ing in oth­er col­ors accord­ing to the RAL col­or cat­a­log is pos­si­ble for an addi­tion­al fee. Met­al prod­ucts are rep­re­sent­ed by the fol­low­ing mod­els:

• grand line 125 × 90 and 150 × 100 mm (the num­bers indi­cate the width of the gut­ter and the diam­e­ter of the pipe, respec­tive­ly). 25 year war­ran­ty on tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions, appear­ance — 10 years.
• Opti­ma 125 × 90 and 150 × 100 mm are more bud­getary, less war­ran­ty (10 years for tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics, appear­ance — 5 years), thin­ner coat­ing lay­er.
• Vor­tex — a wide range of dif­fer­ent sizes (gut­ter from 100 to 150 mm, pipes 0.45 mm thick, diam­e­ter 103 mm) of rec­tan­gu­lar sec­tion. Such a con­struct does not affect the char­ac­ter­is­tics of “drainage”, it has an aes­thet­ic func­tion. For exam­ple, it goes well with high-tech design. 10 year war­ran­ty on tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions, appear­ance — 5 years.

Plas­tic drainage sys­tems of only two lines. They dif­fer in appear­ance and diam­e­ter of the gut­ter. The pipe diam­e­ter is 90 mm for both options.

• “Clas­sic” 120/90 mm.
• “Design” 135/90 mm.

In the reviews, buy­ers note reli­able locks for gut­ters, but clamps are scold­ed for fragili­ty.

Pros and cons

3. “Alta Profile”

Russ­ian man­u­fac­tur­er of poly­mer fin­ish­ing mate­ri­als. There are two lines of drainage sys­tems in the cat­a­log.

“Stan­dard”. For hous­es with a small roof area. The com­pa­ny does not spec­i­fy the exact cri­te­ria for a “small” roof. In prac­tice, instal­la­tion teams usu­al­ly refer to those with an area of ​​up to 50 “squares”. The gut­ter diam­e­ter is 115 mm, the wall thick­ness is 1.5 mm. Pipe diam­e­ter 74 mm. Gut­ter col­ors: white, brown and red. You can choose the angle of the gut­ter in the desired direc­tion — so that water does not fall on the facade.

“Elite”. For build­ings with com­plex roof shapes and regions with high rain­fall. Increased gut­ter diam­e­ter up to 125 mm and gut­ter wall thick­ness up to 1.6 mm. Pipe diam­e­ter 95 mm. Col­ors: white, brown, grey-green. The gut­ter is rein­forced with stiff­en­ers, and inside it there are lon­gi­tu­di­nal grooves-strips. This is a sys­tem due to which the leaves do not stick inside the drain. The angle of the gut­ter can­not be adjust­ed, how­ev­er, the gut­ter itself is tilt­ed away from the wall.

In both con­fig­u­ra­tions, you need to buy addi­tion­al rub­ber seals for con­nec­tions if you do not want con­stant leaks in the down­pour. In addi­tion, the gut­ters do not have pro­tec­tive grat­ings. 15 year prod­uct war­ran­ty and 10 year col­or war­ran­ty.

Pros and cons

4.Murol

The com­pa­ny itself is Cana­di­an, but pro­duces prod­ucts in the Moscow region and St. Peters­burg. Her prod­ucts can be found in net­work build­ing mar­kets and online stores. These are drains of the mass, econ­o­my seg­ment. The thick­ness of the plas­tic (the com­pa­ny does not make met­al) is only 1 or 1.2 mm, depend­ing on the mod­el. This is a good solu­tion for a bath­house, gaze­bo, sum­mer cot­tage in regions with lit­tle rain­fall. If you are look­ing for a drain for a cap­i­tal cot­tage, then you should pay atten­tion only if you are con­strained in funds.

Gut­ters in four col­ors: white, light and dark brown, as well as graphite. The reviews com­plain that the direct sun is mer­ci­less to the paint — it fades.

There are two lines in the cat­a­log:

semi­cir­cu­lar diam­e­ter 130 mm. Pipe 80 mm.

Rec­tan­gu­lar 67 mm wide. Pipe 67 mm.

The lat­ter solu­tion, due to its mod­est dimen­sions, is intend­ed only for small build­ings, but is rein­forced with stiff­en­ers. Semi­cir­cu­lar gut­ters with round pipes — stan­dard dimen­sions for drainage sys­tems.

Pros and cons

5. “Metal Profile”

A large com­pa­ny that pro­duces build­ing mate­ri­als for the Russ­ian mar­ket and the CIS. They work only through their sales offices or their own online store. Pro­duce gut­ter sys­tems made of gal­va­nized steel.

This is not a cheap com­pa­ny, but a medi­um and pre­mi­um seg­ment. Out­side pipes and gut­ters are cov­ered with poly­mer. Choose from either poly­ester (claimed 10 year life) or Pur­man brand­ed polyurethane fin­ish (claimed 50 year life).

In the plus­es of the com­pa­ny, we will write down a huge range of col­ors for gut­ters and tex­tured coat­ings (like imi­ta­tion wood or car­bon fiber). And if you choose a polyurethane coat­ing, you can still vary the glossy or mat­te fin­ish. This option is made to order, so we must remem­ber that the pro­duc­tion time is grow­ing, which depends on the cur­rent work­load of the enter­prise.

The com­pa­ny has sev­en lines of drainage sys­tems. Some dif­fer only in design, oth­ers are cheap­er or more expen­sive due to dif­fer­ent thick­ness­es of steel and coat­ings used.

• Foram­i­na Freeze – design ruler, gut­ter diam­e­ter 120 mm, thick­ness 0.5 or 0.6 mm. Cov­ered with a tex­tured poly­mer lay­er. Gen­er­al war­ran­ty up to 30 years.
• Foram­i­na round and rec­tan­gu­lar sec­tion. Gut­ter 125/150 mm or 120×86 mm (width and height) respec­tive­ly. Thick­ness 0.5 mm. War­ran­ty up to 40 years.
• grandsys­tem – round gut­ter 125 mm in diam­e­ter, the best com­bi­na­tion of price and qual­i­ty. 10 year war­ran­ty.
• GS lite — round gut­ter 125 mm in diam­e­ter, cov­ered with a thin­ner lay­er of poly­mer than Grandsys­tem (25 vs. 35 microm­e­ters). 10 year war­ran­ty.
• “Bud­get” – rec­tan­gu­lar gut­ter 120×86 mm wide, with a thin poly­ester coat­ing. 10 year war­ran­ty.
• “Project” — for mul­ti-storey build­ings.

Pros and cons

6. AquaSystem

Anoth­er Russ­ian com­pa­ny from the Moscow region focus­es on pre­mi­um mate­ri­als. There are three lines in the cat­a­log, all made of met­al.

“Elite”. Made of cop­per — looks very bold and orig­i­nal, but not suit­able for all projects. 70 year guar­an­tee. It costs about 20 times more than ordi­nary gal­va­nized steel (about 20,000 rubles for 3 meters of gut­ter). Gut­ters with a diam­e­ter of 125 or 150 mm, pipes 90 or 100 mm.

“Pre­mi­um”. Made of gal­va­nized steel with a pur­al coat­ing (polyurethane with the addi­tion of polyamide, often used for roof­ing, as it is not afraid of ultra­vi­o­let radi­a­tion and water), 50-year guar­an­tee. The dimen­sions are sim­i­lar to the pre­vi­ous line.

“Com­fort”. Made of gal­va­nized steel with poly­ester coat­ing, 10 year war­ran­ty. Gut­ter with a diam­e­ter of 125 mm, pipes — 90 mm.

The com­pa­ny oper­ates through a deal­er net­work. Among the cus­tomer reviews there are com­plaints about the qual­i­ty of cov­er­age of the most bud­get line “Com­fort”. Care must be tak­en dur­ing instal­la­tion so as not to dam­age the pro­tec­tive lay­er.

Pros and cons

7. Gamrat

Pol­ish drains, which are active­ly import­ed to Rus­sia. They pro­duce only plas­tic gut­ters. There are two lines avail­able.

• PVC (PVC). Dimen­sions (gut­ter / pipe diam­e­ter): 75/63 mm (for baths and garages), 100/90 mm (for low-rise build­ings), 125/90 or 125/110 mm (cot­tages with sev­er­al floors) and 150/110 mm (for indus­tri­al facil­i­ties and high-rise build­ings). Colours: brown, white or graphite.
• MAGNAT. Made of PVC and acrylic plas­tic, this com­bi­na­tion is stronger than reg­u­lar PVC and can with­stand snow loads up to 450 kg. Size one: 125/90 mm. Col­ors: cop­per, green, acrylic, red, sil­ver.

There are no pro­tec­tive grilles for any line. The man­u­fac­tur­er oper­ates through a deal­er net­work in eight major Russ­ian cities, main­ly in Cen­tral Rus­sia. 10 year war­ran­ty.

Pros and cons

8. Galeko

Pol­ish com­pa­ny with pro­duc­tion in Rus­sia. They pro­duce many types of drains, includ­ing quite rare ones. They are made of gal­va­nized steel and plas­tic. A dis­tinc­tive fea­ture is that they are equipped with grooves for the heat­ing cable sys­tem to pre­vent freez­ing. Prices are above the mar­ket aver­age. The fol­low­ing lines are avail­able:

• PVC and PVC2. Round and square. With glossy fin­ish. Gut­ter diam­e­ter from 110 to 135 mm, pipe 70 or 80 mm. War­ran­ty 15 years on per­for­mance and 8 years on col­or.
• STAL and STAL2. An ana­logue of steel cov­ered with pur­al (polyurethane + polyamide, the mate­r­i­al has proven itself in roof­ing). Sheet thick­ness 0.6 mm. War­ran­ty 35 years. The out­side is cov­ered with an organ­ic film that pro­tects against mechan­i­cal dam­age dur­ing trans­porta­tion and instal­la­tion, and then it dis­solves from water. Gut­ter 120, 125, 130 mm, pipes 80 or 90 mm. Gen­er­al war­ran­ty 30 years.
• FLAT ROOFS. Drainage for flat roofs. There is no gut­ter here: instead, a roof fun­nel (installed in the roof accord­ing to the prin­ci­ple of drain­ing in the bath­room), a round pipe with a diam­e­ter of 110 mm.
• LUXOCYNK. Semi-cir­cu­lar gut­ter made of 0.6 mm gal­va­nized steel coat­ed with a trans­par­ent poly­mer. Usu­al­ly the poly­mer is col­ored, but here it is the oth­er way around. War­ran­ty 30 years. Gut­ter diam­e­ter 132 mm, pipe 100 mm.
• TYTANCYNK. Same dimen­sions as LUXOCYNK, but here 0.7 mm gal­va­nized steel, with a high zinc con­tent. For regions with espe­cial­ly snowy win­ters. Gen­er­al war­ran­ty 30 years.
• HIDDEN. A rare prod­uct even in 2022 for our mar­ket is a flush-mount­ed gut­ter sys­tem. Installed in the ther­mal insu­la­tion lay­er of the build­ing. Gut­ter 125 mm. Requires the builder or archi­tect of the project to pre-cal­cu­late the instal­la­tion of the sys­tem.

The com­pa­ny gives a good guar­an­tee for the sys­tems, but please note that the terms apply only to the tech­ni­cal con­di­tion of the gut­ter, and not to the col­or of the coat­ing.

Pros and cons

9.Vinylon

Bud­get drains from a Russ­ian com­pa­ny, which are trad­ed by large chain con­struc­tion stores. The claimed ser­vice life of 25 years is impres­sive. But the line is very small. In fact, there is one uni­ver­sal PVC solu­tion in three col­ors: cof­fee, white and black. Gut­ter diam­e­ter 125 mm, pipe 90 mm. From the inside, the sur­face is not smooth, but with risks. It is believed that leaves stick to this one less. There are seals made of an alloy of sil­i­cone and polyvinyl chlo­ride. Drainage and brack­ets with stiff­en­ers, which increas­es the strength of the struc­ture. Buy­ers praise for the easy instal­la­tion sys­tem, but scold for the quick fad­ing.

Pros and cons

How to choose a manufacturer of drainage systems

As with many build­ing mate­ri­als lines, there is a lot of com­pe­ti­tion among gut­ter man­u­fac­tur­ers. Every­one thinks that his sys­tem is the best. To help you choose, here is a short guide.

plastic or metal

More and more on the mar­ket now plas­tic prod­ucts — made of polyvinyl chlo­ride (PVC). The plas­tic drain has the fol­low­ing advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages:

+ The plas­tic drainage sys­tem is elas­tic, due to which it has a “shape mem­o­ry”: when deformed, it eas­i­ly returns to its pre­vi­ous state with­out chang­ing its appear­ance and with­out crack­ing (sub­ject to high-qual­i­ty instal­la­tion and a con­sci­en­tious man­u­fac­tur­er). Ease of instal­la­tion, not sub­ject to cor­ro­sion, silent, dirt is not vis­i­ble on a smooth sur­face, is not afraid of chem­istry, easy main­te­nance. Man­u­fac­tur­ers pro­duce gut­ter sys­tems accord­ing to the prin­ci­ple of the design­er: the part fits per­fect­ly to the part, it remains to be con­nect­ed and fixed under the roof and on the facade.

- A plas­tic drainage sys­tem can crack in the cold if not installed cor­rect­ly, so it is impor­tant to fol­low the tech­nol­o­gy. Try to choose large man­u­fac­tur­ers — they use high-qual­i­ty plas­tic that can with­stand severe frosts and heat, col­ored plas­tic fades in the sun over time.

The met­al gut­ter sys­tem (main­ly gal­va­nized steel is used) also has its strengths and weak­ness­es:

+ With­stands a large snow load — rel­e­vant for regions with heavy rain­fall, does not crack.

- Instal­la­tion work should be car­ried out by a pro team, the price is high­er than that of PVC sys­tems, con­struc­tion work takes longer, a seri­ous load on the cor­nice over­hang. When deformed, it does not return to its orig­i­nal shape.

brackets

Both plas­tic and met­al should be with stiff­en­ers. These are addi­tion­al inserts for parts that increase the ulti­mate (pri­mar­i­ly snow) load.

Protective grilles

Don’t skimp on this item. It pro­tects the gut­ters from leaves and oth­er street debris (this is espe­cial­ly true in spring and autumn). Oth­er­wise, you will have to con­stant­ly clean the sys­tem man­u­al­ly.

Vulnerabilities

In the drainage sys­tem, these are the gut­ter con­nec­tors. Be sure to buy parts with a seal, oth­er­wise leaks are inevitable.

Guarantee

An impor­tant indi­ca­tor of the best prod­ucts. The best man­u­fac­tur­ers give a guar­an­tee of 10 years or more. Just pay atten­tion to the word­ing in the doc­u­ments. Some brands are cun­ning and indi­cate the ser­vice life of both 25 and 40 years, although they only give a guar­an­tee of 3–5 years.

Prevalence

Some ele­ment of even the best drain can fail over time. The brack­et will fall off, the pipe sec­tion will burst from tem­per­a­ture changes or freez­ing. It is impor­tant to be able to quick­ly find a replace­ment. If the brand has a lim­it­ed deal­er net­work or only sells through its own lim­it­ed num­ber of points, then find­ing the right part can be prob­lem­at­ic.

Mounting

With a steplad­der, it is easy for a home mas­ter to do the work on his own. But don’t make big mis­takes. Place the gut­ters at a slope of up to 5 mm towards the down­pipe — so that the water drains and does not stag­nate. Oth­er­wise, in a down­pour, the sys­tem will not cope with the removal of pre­cip­i­ta­tion, and they will flood the facade.

Remem­ber that the gut­ter of the drain should not cov­er the roof tiles. Observe the dis­tance between the instal­la­tion of brack­ets (hooks) for gut­ters, the norms are pre­scribed in the instruc­tions of the man­u­fac­tur­er of the drain. The rec­om­mend­ed val­ue is no more than 60 cm.

The knee should not rest on the ground, leave a dis­tance of at least 20 cm from the ground. Oth­er­wise, in cold weath­er, the water will freeze and burst the pipes.

Expert opinion on drainage systems

Andrey Golo­vanov, man­ag­er of the Plas­tics prod­uct line at TECHNONICOL:

“A drainage sys­tem is vital for every home. If you refuse it, then there will inevitably be prob­lems with soil ero­sion near the build­ing, and dam­age to the blind area and facade is also pos­si­ble. The price of drainage sys­tems com­pared to the cost of build­ing a house is neg­li­gi­ble: you should not try to save every pen­ny, the miser will inevitably pay twice.

My father-in-law decid­ed to save mon­ey and assem­bled the gut­ter with his own hands. He bought gut­ters, installed them, and orga­nized water drainage using sew­er pipes. But he did not take into account the fact that sew­er pipes are divid­ed into two types: for inter­nal and for exter­nal com­mu­ni­ca­tions. The father-in-law just put the first. After a few years, these pipes fell into dis­re­pair, and it became nec­es­sary to redo this part of the struc­ture.

There­fore, my advice is this: buy only ready-made brand­ed gut­ter sys­tems and use its pay­ment sys­tem when installing them. The man­u­fac­tur­er con­duct­ed both lab­o­ra­to­ry and full-scale tests and gives a guar­an­tee for its prod­ucts.”