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In Reply to: RE: Black Cable Tie Tweak redux posted by geoffkait on December 24, 2012 at 05:38:49
Downspouts in New Zealand are usually made from plastic (PVC) and not metal (which your post seems to assume.) They also extend into the earth on many homes, with underground exit pipes, and rural venues usually have these feeding into a water collection tank somewhere.
Given all that, and what you claim to know of the reasons for this tweak's alleged efficacy, is there any applicability down under in the aforementioned circumstances?
And for those of us sans 14" (350mm) black cable ties, will white work just as well? Yellow? Blue? And can they be daisy-chained if not of sufficient length as singles? Is the exact length critical? Trim off the excess or leave?
(Curious Kiwis and their incessant questions, questions, questions........ )
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Since the cable ties themselves are plastic I see no reason why they wouldn't work for plastic downspouts, actually some here are plastic, too, i.e., I do not think they have to be metal.
I have only tried black, so I know black works, dunno about other colors. You could always obtain white ties then use a black Marker to color them black.
You can leave the tail on the cable tie or snip it off, as you prefer.
You might need longer cables ties in some cases as diameter of drainspouts vary. Maybe you can find 20" black ties. Cable ties can be daisy chained if you can't find longer ties.
As for how this tweak works, I don't know.
So...... How did you happen to try it, or what were the thought processes that led to trying it?
I stumbled across the black cable tie tweak hidden in an obscure article in one of the PWB newsletters about ten years ago. I tried the black cable tie tweak right after reading the article, most likely because it seemed so preposterous.
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