gutters

Two estimates land in your inbox for the same 180 feet of gutter on the same house. One is meaningfully cheaper. Both say “seamless aluminum gutter, five inch, K-style, color to match trim.” Neither one mentions the four or five decisions that actually separate them, because those decisions live in the supply order rather than

Three days after the last rain, there is still water sitting in a section of gutter on the back of the house. You noticed a green line of algae along the inside when you were up on the ladder for something else, or a bird has been using it. Everything about the gutter looks right.

Here is a puzzle that comes up a few times a year. A homeowner has fascia board going soft along one side of the house. The gutter above it is clean, hung straight, and has never once overflowed that anybody has seen. There is no leak at the corners, no clog in the downspout, and

Stand in the yard and sight down the length of your gutter the way you would sight down a board at the lumber yard. It should read as a straight line, dropping very slightly toward the downspout. What most people see instead is a shallow smile: high at both ends, dipping somewhere in the middle,

There is a spot on the front of a house in Martinez where the paint has been peeling in the same two-foot patch for three years. It is directly under an outside corner of the gutter. Everywhere else on that elevation, the gutter is fine. It has held water through every storm since it went

A homeowner in Evans called about a strip of yard behind her house that stayed soft and muddy weeks into the dry part of summer. She had new gutters. She had guards on them. The gutters were doing their job, catching everything off the roof and carrying it to the corners the way they were