I've been fed up with gutters ever since the gutters I had installed in front of my house in 2002 started clogging. I managed to get them cleaned with a power washer in 2020. It was not easy because the crud had solidified like concrete and also plugged up the poorly angled downspout. I need to get the thing refurbished or replaced but Gutter Experts charge a fortune, and handymen (like the one who installed the current gutters) usually get it wrong.
I put in Rain Handlers in back and I'm not sure they've ever done very much. I can see heavy rains just passing right through them.
So now, after the foundation repair (piers) installed on the south and west sides of my house, the compacted earth was torn up and replaced by new dirt, which is now just washing away under critical parts of the roof overhang. I filled a big hole with new dirt in April, and that just washed away in May.
So now I'm going to fill the hole with rocks. It appears you need the bigger rocks (not pea gravel!!!) to get decent drainage, so I got nice big rocks. I may put pavers and other things on top of the rocks too.
It turns out this kind of approach has a name. It's called a Drip Path.
