We have a mansard roof with a cornice on it in Chicago. This is a 6-flat building on a very narrow lot in the city. Pictures are here: http:\/\/east-village.posterous.com\/east-village-building<\/p>\n
The issue we are having is with rain water running off of the roof, down the front of the building, pooling at the ground, and seeping into our meter room under the front steps. We cannot install a drain because we would have to do so on the neighbor’s property and tear up all of their sidewalks.<\/p>\n
So can we add some type of gutter to the cornice? Or should it have had a gutter at some point? The building was built around 1870, but over the past few years we have had to repair masonry and various other issues in the front due to the water.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have a mansard roof with a cornice on it in Chicago. This is a 6-flat building on a very narrow lot in the city. Pictures are here: http:\/\/east-village.posterous.com\/east-village-building The issue we are having is with rain water running off of the roof, down the front of the building, pooling at the ground, and seeping…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78062,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-55607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restoration"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/help-with-corni\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Help with Cornice \/ Mansard Roof","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/help-with-corni\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/help-with-corni\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Restoration","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"bradbeiter"}],"creator":["bradbeiter"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2011-04-28T12:09:56Z","datePublished":"2011-04-28T12:09:56Z","dateModified":"2011-04-28T12:11:12Z"},"rendered":"