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New Downspout To Deal With Poorly Graded Gutters

We have this gutter run that is about 40 feet long along one side of our home.  Over the past few years it has developed a sag (probably due to ice dams) that cause it to fill up and overflow during heavy rains.  And even when it’s not raining, water obviously sits up there [...]

Gutter Contractor’s Opinion on Gutter Guards

Reader J. Woodson offers some advice born of experience in the are of selecting a gutter guard system for your home.  Here are his comments:

I would like to tell all consumers who are interested in purchasing gutter guards of any kind, that as someone who has installed gutters and guards for almost 20 [...]

Home Owners Recovering from a Tough Winter

The Wall Street Journal recently post an article tabulating the various ways in which your home may have been damaged this winter.  Here are a few excerpts:

Kathleen Hassinger and Brandon Halbert in Wynnewood, Pa., are among those whose home sustained multiple winter wounds. Ice dams damaged their 100-year-old home’s slate roof and left [...]

Ice Dam Poetry!

Those crazy Minnesotans are so sick of ice dams that they decided to get poetic about it thanks to a little prompting by Jon Tevlin over at the Minnesota Star Tribune.  Here are a couple of the examples along with a link to the full article.

Whose roof this is I think I know:

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Sorry for the lack of comment approvals

Well the leaves are falling and the gutters are clogging. Another Fall here in New England. Actually mine aren’t clogging.

We apologize for the lack of recent comment approvals. Our server wasn’t alerting us to new comments and we still aren’t quite sure why. Hmmm. We just went through and approved about 30 [...]

Evaluating Gutter Leaf Protection Systems

[originally posted a few years ago, but let's use it to kick off The Gutter Club]

I’ve spent a lot of time lately attempting to find the best solution for keeping leaves and plant material out of our gutters. We currently have *no* gutters on the house due to the renovation. I don’t simply [...]

Welcome to The Gutter Club

At The Gutter Club, we will discuss and review the benefits and shortfalls of all of the major (and minor) systems created to protect your gutters and downspouts from leaves and other residue.

This is a mini-industry that is fraught with exceptional claims and poor results.  We intend to get to the bottom of [...]