(Toledo)--A new, green company in Toledo has a mission of "shouting from the rooftops" the importance of being eco-friendly. It provides gutter protection and rain water harvesting. Frogtown RainTube Gutter Solution is only a few years old. But its co-founded hopes the company will stand the test of time, creating a name for itself in the green movement.
Paul Emch and business partner Chris Offenberg look up and see a positive future selling and installing raintubes throughout the area. The cylindrical device directs water inside existing gutters to prevent harmful runoff, just to name one of many purposes. The tubing material is typically made of more than 250 milk jugs.
The rain water, by the way, can be collected and reused. The company is working on selling cisterns, capable of holding tens of thousands of gallons of water, for the yard or perhaps inside plumbing.
Installation itself takes about a day. Keep in mind the tubing costs around $7 per foot of gutter with the grand total for most homeowners around $1500. And while this product is made for everyone, it's especially geared toward homes located in woodsy areas where leaves and sticks can easily clog the gutters.
The use of the raintube meets certain LEED standards. Of course "LEED" means the leadership in energy and environmental design. It serves as a standard for the design, construction and operation of green buildings. To learn more, you can go to www.frogtownraintube.com or call 419-491-1181.
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