How To Add Gutters To Your House

Step one choose a gutter type you can either choose to have someone manufacture seamless gutters for you or you can buy your gutter in 10 foot sections at the home improvement store near you.

How to add gutters to your house. For every 10 feet of gutter. He was on time clean organized and the outcome i couldn t be happier with. If your fascia boards are level you can use them as a reference for sloping the gutters. However just because you do not need a roof gutter system most days in southern california you still might want to consider installing one if your home is currently gutter free.

Mount the gutters to the fascia brackets. Of insertion on one end. For starters even though there are not a lot of basements in this part of the country some folks do have parts of their homes that are below ground level. Check this by holding a level against the bottom edge.

Rotate your gutter upward pushing it away from you until the edge closest to the fascia fastens into the hook on the back of the bracket. Lay your gutter into the fascia brackets that you attached to the rafter tails. Seamless gutters are manufactured to fit your home but require an expensive machine to produce. Temporarily screw the gutter to the fascia positioning it about 2 inches below the chalk line.

If they aren t level adjust the string line until a level aligned with it shows a slight slope. Slope each house gutter run down toward the downspout about 1 4 in. 60 reviews of a plus gutter systems i just had rain gutters installed. I highly recommend israel and a gutters from start to finish.

Use a hammer and a cold chisel or a hole saw to cut a round hole in the gutter for a downspout outlet. The estimate was fair and timely. Start by pushing the female end of a downspout elbow onto the first outlet fitting. He followed thru with all he said he would do.

I was trying to find one thing that i he could improve on but was unable to. Then hold a second elbow against the corner of the house in line with the first elbow. Measure the distance between these fittings and cut a short length of downspout to join the allowing for about 1 1 2 in.