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Rain Chain Gang

Your gutters catch water that flows off the roof and then directs that water to a downspout which drains the water from the gutter to the ground in a specific location. Instead of a downspout, however, you can also use … Continue reading

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Screen & Clean

You have gutters on your house? Great! That means you saved yourself hundreds, possibly thousands, of dollars in repair costs associated with water damage! But you can’t just stick them up and forget about them… You have to maintain them … Continue reading

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Barrel of Rain

As a responsible citizen, you probably want to do your part to conserve water, right? No, I’m not talking about turning off the faucet while you brush your teeth… I’m talking about rain barrels! A rain barrel is a container … Continue reading

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Can Aluminum Gutters Stand The Test of Time?

Everyone knows that steel and copper gutters last a long time. There are many homes built in the 20s that still have their original, functioning steel and/or copper gutters. But in the last 20 years or so, aluminum gutters came … Continue reading

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Save Fascia

When looking into a new gutter system, we recommend evaluating your home’s fascia boards before installing the gutters. Having proper fascia boards will prevent a shmemley of different problems down the road for both your home and your gutter system. Fascia … Continue reading

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Underground Drainage – Then & Now

John Johnston was born in Scotland in 1791, and immigrated to the USA in 1821. A year later, he bought many acres of farmland and built a house in Seneca County. He found that the excessive water from the underground … Continue reading

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Slope Matters!

If my gutters are a little crooked or sagging, it’s not a big deal, right? Wrong! If your gutters aren’t properly sloped, water will not drain the way it’s supposed to! It will accumulate inside the gutter instead of draining … Continue reading

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Hanging with your Rain Gutters

A common problem with rain gutters is their pulling away from the fascia board they are attached to. Not only does this sagging look bad, but it throws off the slope, and the water they catch will not drain to … Continue reading

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Stylin’ Gutters

There are different styles of rain gutters. The main two styles are half round and K styles. What’s the difference? K-Style gutters are also referred to as OG or OGEE gutters. (“Ogee” is an architectural term for a form that … Continue reading

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Avoid Metal Mixing & Matching

Let’s say you have a nice steel gutter system and one day something happens to one of your downspouts and it needs to be replaced…. So you call around and do some research and learn that aluminum is less expensive … Continue reading

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