How To Build A Yankee Gutter

House flipping brothers dave and rich show how to install gutters on a house.

How to build a yankee gutter. Also make sure the contractor you choose replaces any dry or rotted wood inside the yankee gutter. Lynn and todd swept debris away with a. Prepping the gutters requires carefully cleaning away any debris. Install a self drilling aluminum roofing screw that pierces and secures the flashing gutter and supporting strap photo 2 and 3.

There are occasions where water damage occurs and the whole gutter needs to be re built. Repair yankee gutters in 5 steps step 1. Subscribe to this old house. Yankee gutters can be very simple or ornate.

Yankee gutters are also referred to as philadelphia gutters pole gutters flush gutters and standing gutters. These gutters are built on the plane of the roof. Set in a bed of caulk the yankee gutter board was set onto and screwed through the copper into the roof deck. A cant strip a triangular ripping of wood is attached along the inside bottom of the 2 6.

Assuming that your roof and flashing are in place insert the rain gutter edge under the roof flashing then insert the j shaped supporting strap under the gutter as seen in photo 1. Reaching our gutters on the second story of our home required a 28 long extension ladder. Yankee gutters are constructed by nailing a 2 6 perpendicular to the roof plane parallel to and a few inches back from the eaves. Each penetration through the copper eaves flashing was sealed by applying a blob of 50 year caulk on the under side of the board or bracket where the screw would penetrate.

Sheets of metal were used to line the interior of yankee gutters. They are currently renovating a large lake house that required all new gutters. Built in gutters the unseen roof drainage system was specifically chosen to be installed when the home was built thus is part of the original historic character. Ask this old house general contractor tom silva installs an alternative to a gutter when a traditional one does not work.

But that step was just extra insurance. Wood was used as an external element to construct the shell for the gutters while sheets of metal were used to line the interior. Next patch any.