RainbreakerZ are complete replacements for the conventional raingutter and downspouts. It is a 30 inch long plate perforated with many small holes. The perforations convert the roof rainwater into small uniform raindrops by a direct division process. Downspouts are not required for the RainbreakerZ. RainbreakerZ have the lowest profile of all the gutters.

The RainbreakerZ is perforated with 125 holes per square inch. A typical raindrop falling from the roof is 1/3 inch in diameter. Each drop will "see" 19 holes as it falls and will be split into 19 smaller, uniform droplets due to its falling momentum. The holes divide the larger drop into smaller droplets and direct the water away from the house as a gentle rain that will have insignificant soil erosion and will not affect shrubs below.

We will send you our free, unique demonstration business card so you can see and hear how the RainbreakerZ works in your own home. The actual metal product will have almost no “runoff” from the top surface and disperses the droplets over an area approximately 4 times that shown by the demonstration business card. However, the sample can be demonstrated in your kitchen sink or in your shower (best demonstrated using the shower head)! Request our free sample by registering on our website www.Rainbreakerz.com or mail us your address to:

People normally think of a heavy rainfall as 3 inch to 5 inches of rain but forget that it usually occurs over a period of several hours. A heavy rainfall is defined as equivalent to greater than 0.3 inches per hour. With a heavy rainfall, there are more drip points, as well as more drops, from the shingles. The RainbreakerZ will work under the most extreme rainfall (8.5 inches per minute or 510 inches per hour of rain, unbelievable number but test verified - see video).

The roof rainwater is dispersed by the RainbreakerZ in an 18 inch wide band along the length of the house. For an actual moderate rainfall of 0.1 to 0.3 inch/hr and a 30 x 50 foot total roof area, the accumulated rainfall at the rain gutter location increases to 1.5 to 4.5 inch/hr. The RainbreakerZ reduces the rainfall to an apparent 1 to 3 inch/hr/sf because of its dispersion band. A conventional rain gutter concentrates the rainfall at the downspout equivalent to 600 to 1800 inch/hr/sf. Put another way, the 0.1 to 0.3 inch/hr rain results in 0.6 to 1.9 gal/hr water load in the dispersion band while the downspout concentrates the rainwater to 23 to 70 gal/hr at its outlet.

Conventional wisdom is that water falling directly off the roof to the ground near the foundation will cause water seepage into the house foundation. Actually, water falling from the roof continually impacting at the same points causes soil erosion/trenching near the foundation. The trenching allows the water to accumulate in a pool and have time to seep into the foundation. The RainbreakerZ prevents the trenching effect by breaking the water stream into small uniform droplets that do not have the weight to cause trenching. In addition, the individual droplets do not continually impact at same point but are spread over a wide area. The normal practice of grading the soil near the foundation to slope away from the house will also promote rainwater flow away from the foundation before it has time to seep into the foundation. Good homebuilding practice is to slope the ground a minimum of 1 inch per foot for the first 4 to 6 feet.

Leaves cannot accumulate on the RainbreakerZ. Leaves fall off naturally from the sloped surface or they can be sprayed away with a hose from ground level.

During the winter, conventional raingutters and downspouts can plug up from the frozen water and cause ice dams that back water under the shingles and leak into the ceiling. The real cause of ice dams is insufficient attic insulation that causes the snow to melt in the first place. If the ambient temperature is below freezing and the snow melts due to the warm roof, the resulting water will re-freeze on the cold rain gutter and create an ice blockage. The ice blockage builds up quickly in the conventional gutter and backs up onto the shingles easily. If the ambient temperature is above freezing, the snow will melt but the water will not re-freeze on the cold rain gutter as it will be above the freezing temperature as well. The ice dam can also form on the shingles near the fascia because the roof temperatures can be colder there as air circulation into the attic enters the vents. In any event, the RainbreakerZ is 6 to 7 inches below the shingle level, does not hold up water like a gutter with a plugged downspout, and can not ice up onto the shingle level to cause water damage.

The RainbreakerZ can be customized by using a hand saw or scissors-type metal shear to adjust the length or to angle the ends to make two RainbreakerZ fit a 90 degree corner. Additional support brackets can be added to allow heavier loads to be supported on the RainbreakerZ if necessary for any reason. The support brackets can be adjusted to lower the RainbreakerZ for even more efficient dispersion. If desired, we can customize the RainbreakerZ for the consumer for an additional handling charge - including extending the reach of the RainbreakerZ further from the fascia or for non-vertical fascia.

We had installed our competitor’s product on our house – a louver type impact baffle design that is a gutterless rain gutter design. One day we noticed that this product still produced some minor trenching in our flower bed. The next time it rained, we were out in the rain evaluating why the louver type impact baffle design still caused the soil erosion. We noticed that the water was impacting on the top surface of the louver as designed. However, resulting splashing created irregular droplet sizes and also caused some of the droplets to impact on the back side of the next impact baffle located forward and above the working baffle. The droplets accumulated or re-agglomerated on the back side of the baffle to reconstruct the larger drop size. The reconstructed larger drop size and the larger irregular droplets caused the soil erosion. We thought there had to be a better way.

Eureka! How about using a screen to split the large water drops into smaller drops? To test out the idea, we took our window screen into the shower, started the shower head dripping like it was coming off the roof, inserted the window screen under the shower head drops and it worked! The sound of the drops hitting the bathtub decreased noticeably. This was due to the formation of a large number of droplets (with small mass) resulting from the larger drop being divided as it passed through the screen. In addition, by slanting the screen downward, the formed droplets were also directed in the same direction as the slant. This would tend to keep the screen clean as well (leaves would not accumulate on the screen). Whoever said that the best ideas come in the shower was right. We received a patent for our thinking.

If a wndow screen was the original idea, how did the product end up as a perforated plate?

Discussions with friends and relatives about the sturdiness of a flexible plastic screen and the alternate cost of a window screen type frame to surround the screen led to a re-evaluation of the product. The second eureka moment came in front of the computer. I saw the computer speakers with it’s perforated holes which led us to think about using a rigid perforated plate with tiny holes. After obtaining a metal plate sample with the largest open hole area possible with the smallest hole size for a standard perforation, we went back to the shower to test out the theory. Lo and behold, it worked like the screen! But a surprise – the perforated plate had to be slanted upward (in the opposite direction compared to the screen) to direct the droplets in the desired direction! Further analysis of this phenomenon led to a second patent application.

Our website www.Rainbreakerz.com shows over 25 engineering considerations that went into the development of the product. In addition, we offer a two year full refund performance satisfaction guarantee and a 25 year manufacturer's warranty against manufacturing defects.

We have been in business since 1989. However, we have decided to concentrate our efforts on a single product that has potential to grow our company significantly beyond our current size and become a national brand. We can be reached by phone at 973-301-2288 or toll free 1-866-306-0100, by e-mail at , or by conventional mail to our post office box number at Ch. E. Incorporated, P. O. Box 274, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932. Norcrown Bank in Florham Park, New Jersey is the financial institution where our accounts have been since 1992. They can be contacted if you desire a reference.