New gutters for my house

     The gutter guy showed up in the morning. Set up his trailer with an extruding machine inside. This was my first chance to see one. He puts on a roll of flat material and runs it through the machine where a series of dies roll it into shape. In my case one piece gutters 37' long.

The locals were not impressed!

     Like most jobs it didn't go smooth. The flat part of my roof has a vinyl cover, this fits over the edge of the old gutter next to the fascia and normally both are screwed to the fascia, Aahhhh not so in my case. The installer had glued the vinyl to the gutter. This created more work for the gutter guys and added maybe 45min to the job. The owner/installer got upset that he was losing $.

    So once that was worked out he wasn't in a good mood and they hung the rear and front gutters. This was problematic too as I had wanted the downspouts on the West side of the house so I could route the discharge into the close by ditch. Well turns out the rear had to be drained to the East due to not enough room to raise the end under the vinyl. A new hole had to be cut and the West end one plugged. In the front, my house is lower on the East end this frustrated the guy even more but they got it done, all draining Westerly. The boss packed his crap and he left, ostensibly to find his phone and work another job. I got no sympathy for him. It wasn't my idea to spend $13k on a roof and gutters. If it hadn't leaked I wouldn't have.

    The worker bee, John, stayed and did a fantastic job installing the downspouts and screens on the gutters. 

     Due to the large drop John had to put longer flashing between the shingles and the gutter to cover the gap of the exposed fascia.

    John installed the screens, they had to be bent in a brake that was on his tailgate. The lip was screwed to the inside gutter/fascia and the flat was screwed to the lip of the gutter. The screens are aluminum extrusions on both sides and stainless mesh in the middle.

And then they were on and John was finished!

   I'm not, today I patched the hole which was cut in my back porch roof. It wasn't hard cause it's only corrugated steel. I took up a piece I had and marked where to cut, cut it and using sheet metal screws put it into place. I didn't think to take a pic.

   Now I have to look into flex pipe to run the discharge from the downspouts. Dig trenches and bury it. And maybe a paint job......it never ends......

Friday Aug 22, 2025

      Gutter guy finally answered my email last night with printable invoice. This morning I emailed I was available and had the payment, 4 and a half hours later I got a text, was I home and available, to which I replied yep. He came up and picked up the payment!

    GLAD TO BE DONE WITH ALL OF IT!

Now I have to deal with State Farm, I think it's a no-brainer, go to the office with my  twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back explaining each one.

     Then see what they say.