and to prevent a build-up of excessive weight.

Water from a pitched roof flows down into a valley gutter, a parapet gutter or an eaves gutter. An eaves gutter is also known as an eavestrough (especially in Canada), spouting (in New Zealand), rhone or rone (Scotland), eaves-shoot (Ireland), eaves channel, dripster, guttering, rainspouting or simply as a gutter. The word gutter derives from Latin