How To Make Rain Gutter Chains

Use copper tubing and stones to make this beautiful natural rain chain.

How to make rain gutter chains.

I decided to just use a half link of the chain on the top side of the gutter. If your budget is tight consider making this diy plastic cup rain chain. Install the rain chain by removing an existing downspout or creating a hole through the gutter system. You just bend your spoons or forks into place and then position them however you want them to create the chain for your water to travel over.

Connect a second piece of chain to the other side of the s hook and continue adding pots. Then i held the top link of the rain chains up to he bottom side of the hole in the gutter. Flip the pot upside down and. Scrap metal will most likely be harder to work with than copper or aluminum so take extra care when shaping or drilling holes in your pieces.

This rain chain is made from old metal spoons you an also use forks if you have them. Some of the most interesting rain chains can be made by linking together pieces of old scrap metal or discarded metal items. Take a mini s hook and loop it through one end of a 12 inch chain piece and into the drainage hole of the terra cotta pot. There they are called kusari doi or chain gutter.

I took one link from the chain and cut it in half with bolt cutters. Dig a hole slightly wider than the width of your pot and at least 6 deep directly underneath the downspout outlet. Rain chains are not only beautiful simple to make with few tools and materials but they can also turn gutter system downspouts into beautiful environmentally friendly features. There are endless possibilities for using scrap metal to make your new rain chain.

There are a lot of ways that you could hang the chains from your gutter. The first kusari doi were created in the 1600s to adorn. Step 3 position the half wine barrel under the rain chain and fill it with water. Turn these cute galvanized buckets into a diy bucket rain chain.

It is gorgeous and has such a lovely rustic look to it. Decide where the rain chain will be hung and install a downspout outlet in the gutter in the desired location. Rain chains originated in japan where they have adorned houses and temples for hundreds of years.