Gutters on the Yurt Skirt

[lizsteve]

We have gutters installed on our Colorado Yurt and collect water into 2000 gallon cisterns which is solar pumped into the sink and shower. We take them down before snow season and put them back up in April. It's not a big deal to do so, but the gutters are crap. Considering yurts are meant to be outside! the gutter brackets, washers and wing nuts are all a plastic that doesn't seem too weather and sun resistant. Many of the brackets have broke and we haven't found a replacement. We replaced all the bolts and wing nuts with metal ones, but unless we find a good bracket system, the metal bolts will outlast the whole system.

Has anybody found a better alternative to the factory plastic gutter brackets?? Thanks!