Combining rainfall intensity and effective roof area to get a design flow rate in litres per second.
To size guttering you need the design flow rate: how many litres per second the system must carry in a heavy storm. It comes from how hard it rains and how much roof drains to that gutter. The figures here are chosen for the example.
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