Abstract: Apparatus for holding a rain gutter having a strip running the length of the gutter. The strip may be nailed to the side of a building. The strip has an internal cavity running the length of the strip. The strip has an entrance opening to the cavity. The lower part of the strip includes a hook which cooperates with a hook at the upper end of one leg of a U-shaped gutter to suspend that leg of the gutter from the strip. The other leg of the U-shaped gutter is held in place by a series of cantilever beams. Each cantilever has a bar on one end that locks into the cavity in the strip. The cantilever projects through the entrance opening of the cavity and extends above the U-shaped gutter to support one of the legs of the U-shaped gutter. The strip with its cavity and opening acts as a socket into which the cantilevers with their associated bars may be inserted as required.

Abstract: This invention contemplates providing a number of sheets showing different building materials. Each different building material is illustrated in different scales on different sheets respectively. When a customer wishes to see the way his building would look with a particular building material on it, a photograph of his building is taken and one of said sheets, to the proper scale, is applied over the photograph. It would, however, overlie only that portion of the building which is to be covered by the new material. In that way the customer sees how his building will look with any or all various different materials placed over the outside of his building.When the building material, to be applied to an existing building, is available in different colors, a sheet representing the desired color may be placed between the photograph and the sheet representing the desired building material.