Origami™ Rain Chain

Great-looking and well-designed chain

This is my favorite of all the cup style chains. I love the origami shapes, and the copper finish looks pretty good next to the wood deck framing. It replaced a conventional chain that was splashing rain all over the place. This does a good job of channeling the water down. It is well-designed and constructed and was easy to assemble. Also I like how it was compactly boxed up for shipping with virtually no chance of any damage. My only criticism: The vertical space between the mounting kit outlet and the top chain link allows water to escape out through the 'V' shaped opening, just missing the edge near the bottom nut. I installed a homemade sleeve just above the top link to keep the flow inside the chain. That works pretty well. Designing a narrower outlet above the chain would probably help. Or since it may only affect this particular chain style, a better solution may be to engineer a unique top link for the origami chain that is solid all around with no opening on two sides. To eliminate a puddle near the deck post, I installed the chain into an elbow. So now we can enjoy watching water fall while still diverting it almost as well as a solid downspout would.

Attractive, well-built copper Origami rain chain

I'm very pleased with my Origami rain chain. It's solid and well-built. Packaging and instructions were well done. I appreciate the strong hanging hardware. Aesthetically, it looks great. Now that it's installed, I'm not sure if it'll handle the large flow of my downspout without excessive splashing, but I attribute that to the fundamental trade-offs of a rain chain.

Black Oragami

The quality is there. Assembly is tedious but doable. The end result was beautiful.