Downspout Silencer (2x3B)

I have a downspout just outside my bedroom window, that has an elbow onto a small roof over the back patio. When there was even a light rain, drops of water would make the whole downspout ring like a gong, keeping me awake at night.The hardest part of installation is getting the ladder in place. I just slid the silencer in, with the bend sitting under the bottom of the output of the elbow. The weight of an 8 foot downspout is holding it in place. Even in recent downpours, it has remained where I put it.No more gong! I hear nothing in a light rain, and I just hear the soothing white noise of water moving through the downspout in a downpour.Worth every penny.

Do you have tall vertical gutter downspouts with a metal curved outflow at the bottom? If so, you're probably familiar with the annoying "ping, ping, ping" that happens in a light rain or at the end of the rainstorm, when individual water droplets fall 10 feet or more to land on the sheet metal curve at the bottom of the downspout, the high-pitched noise echoing through the entire length of the pipe.These silencers are as simple as can be: a rectangle of industrial outdoor carpet riveted to a piece of sheet metal with a folded hook at one end. You could make them yourself with scraps if you had the right tools, so I'm not sure why these are quite so expensive.Installing these is normally the work of moments, you just need a screwdriver and work gloves to remove the bottom curve piece, slide the silencer into place, and replace the screws holding the downspout together.I don't imagine this will ever really wear out - I suppose the carpet might wear thin decades from now, but it'll still be softer than the metal alone. And since it's at a somewhat vertical angle inside of a metal pipe, the water will naturally run off and get baked into evaporation, preventing the carpet from becoming a bed of mold. It's invisible anyway inside the pipe, and mold is soft, so who cares.And, they really do work! Instead of landing on hard and reverberating sheet metal, the water droplets fall onto the soft carpet with a soothing "plop, plop" sound that blends in with the normal sounds of raindrops falling on the ground. Light sleepers rejoice!

Works great at silencing the dripping noise in my downspout. Easy to install. The price is a bit high for what it consists of.

The reason I bought these was not to quite the rain running through the downspouts, it was to silence the darn dripping noise. Most noticeably after a rain had stopped/slowed way down or early mornings when the condensation is coming off the roof. For these type of issues, the product has done an outstanding job by deadening the drip noise to a point it is undetectable from inside the house.I ordered and installed three of these. 1 was the type 'A' and the other two were the type 'B'. Determining which type to order was hardest thing about this. It has nothing to do with the type of down spout you have. It is just the width of the item you are buying. I had to go outside and straddle the downspout extension to resolve this. If the fat side of the downspout is facing you, then you need the type 'A'. If the skinny side of the downspout is facing you, then you need the type 'B'.Installation was a breeze. Removed the elbow from the downspout, inserted the silencer and reattached the elbow. The silencer has a hook bent into it (shows up in one of the pictures) that you insert the backside of the elbow into. Properly installed, I do not see how this item could pop off the inside of the elbow. Everything is tight when the elbow is reinstalled. It is not going anywhere.For me, only thing left is to get through a winter. I need to make sure the silencer does not cause a ice dam inside the elbow. But for now, the 5 star rating is fully justified.

This downspout silencer did not work for us. Would not recommend.

Exactly as advertised.

While it does deaden the sound a bit, it doesn’t totally stop it. I also question how long it will last.

Easy to install. Completely wiped out the pinging sound from the rain. Well worth the money in my opinion. Now I won’t be woken up when it rains!