Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Category: Gutter Roof
Gutter Protection is Not Ice Protection
This time of year is a major challenge for gutter cover contractors in the northern climate. With the onset of winter, service issues arise from angry homeowners complaining of the formation of icicles in areas that never used to have ice build-up. Without gutter protection, icicles on the gutter are caused by [read more...]
The Failure of the Cold Roof Concept
Snow melting off the roof causes glaciers of ice cascading down forming massive icicles commonly referred to as ice dams. Ice dams create a hazard from falling ice and refreezing ice melt on walkways. The roof and other structures of the home are damaged by water getting in cracks and openings and then [read more...]
Formation of Ice Dams
It’s that time of year again with plenty of snow and ice in the northern climates. It is also this time of year that home owners have to deal with the formation of ice dams and the damage and hazards that ice dams create. Ice dams are caused by snow melting down the roof and [read more...]
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Avoiding Fly Over on the End Caps
If the gutter is lined up with the roof line, then water tends to flow over the gutter end cap and through the process of water surface tension follow down the gutters, to the fascia, soffit, and down the siding of the home. Water damage is very common in this area. Gutters should [read more...]
Category: Gutter Protection
What is Important in a Water Management System?
Decide what is important to you for your water management system and research it properly. Research the installing company carefully. Spend what you need to get the system that fits your criteria and do it as soon as possible to avoid further damage to your home. Homeowners make three big mistakes when purchasing home [read more...]
What Are Your Options?
6” gutters and 3” x 4” down spouts are not a permanent solution, but may minimize issues caused by clogged gutters. The proper choice of gutter protection will permanently solve the problem in most cases. We know that in order to protect your home, you need to have free flowing gutters. Based on what [read more...]
The Hazards of Ice in Your Gutters
Ice in your gutters can cause a great deal of damage to your roof, gutters and down spouts, and soffit and fascia. In addition, icicles and melting ice coming off the gutters pose a hazard by falling ice and ice melt refreezing on walkways. There are some solutions that are available, [read more...]
Cleaning the Gutters is Not a Good Option
Cleaning gutters involves getting up on a ladder to heights of 20 feet or more. Falls from heights may result in expensive medical bills, unpaid time off from work, and potential fatalities. Over time the act of cleaning the gutters causes damage to the roof and gutters, which causes premature replacement expenses. [read more...]
A New Roof Requires Removal and Reinstallation of Gutter Protection
When considering installing a gutter guard, the inspection of the roof is a necessary component. If the shingles are brittle or curling, or if the homeowner knows that their 15 Year shingles are now 20 years old, then the roof should be replaced first. This is an important consideration to avoid a removal [read more...]
What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Available Water Management Systems?
Volume Stealers: Some systems make your gutters less effective by lowering the volume of water that gutters can handle. In addition, these systems get clogged as well. There are some systems that are placed into the gutter. They can be made of sponge-like material, bristle brush (similar to bottle cleaners), or a thick [read more...]
How Rain Water Does Damage to the Home
Rotted Wood: Rain water can flow to and behind numerous structures in the home. Treated wood is resistant to insects, but is vulnerable to wood rot under certain conditions. Wooden components of the house become rotted by retaining moisture, becoming warm, and then growing fungus. Other problems are introduced with [read more...]
An Effective Water Management System Will Protect Your Home
A complete water management system will get the water off of your roof, into the gutters and down spouts, and away from your home. The gutter system is only half of the equation because when it clogs it fails. Gutter protection completes the system by keeping the gutters free flowing. If you could find [read more...]
The Gutter Roof Advantage A Work in Progress
When you look at the various metal dome cover gutter protection systems, they all look very similar. But there are subtle differences that make a big difference in effectiveness. Gutter Roof’s design has earned a proven performance record since the patent was first granted in 1993. Over the years, we have learned from [read more...]
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Trouble In The Roof Valley
The roof valley is where two sections of the roof come together. A roof valley acts like a funnel channeling large volumes of water at a high velocity. After the installation of gutter protection, water could overshoot the gutters at this point. And even without gutter covers, in a down pour, the [read more...]
Friday, 11 September 2009
Problems with Upper Down Spouts
A small river carved the Grand Canyon. What do you think is going to happen with a small river coming out of your down spout onto the roof? The effects are obvious. Debris, mud, and rust are flushed out from the down spout and stain the roof. The cascading water [read more...]
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
The Perfect Gutter Cover
I have yet to find a perfect product, whether it be a car, electronics, or software. There is always some sort of weakness. The same goes for gutter protection. Many companies make promises that are unrealistic, and consequently convey false expectations to the homeowner. All gutter protection products have some limitations. [read more...]
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Gutter Guards Should Be Invisible On Home
Curb appeal of the home is important not only for resale value, but for the emotional attachment that one has for where they reside. “After all, home is where the heart is.” There are many gutter protection products available which stick out or are not esthetically pleasing. Gutter protection can be almost invisible and still work properly [read more...]
Roofing Gutters Can’t Do It Alone
Give Them Help With Gutter Caps Your roofing gutters exist to protect your yard from damaging run off after a rain. They are like little aqueducts that direct rainwater to a pre-determined area, instead of simply allowing the rainwater to flow off the roof into your yard. If you like having a healthy, vibrant garden and [read more...]
Gutter Protection Is Important
It goes without saying that all homeowners are interested in protecting their home and yard from damage and wear and tear. Homes are enormous investments of time and money, and ensuring that they are cared for is a huge part of making sure you’re not wasting your time or money. That said, gutter protection is [read more...]
Use A Gutter Guard To Prevent Clogging
Every House Needs One Gutters exist for one very explicit reason: to divert the flow of rainwater and other precipitation to a desired location. If you don’t have gutters, the rain will simply flow off the roof and flood the yard. Nobody wants a flooded, dead lawn. The gutter guard performs a very similar task. While [read more...]
A Gutter Cap Protects Your Home
Easy To Use Every facet of your house needs protection from the elements. Heck, houses themselves are designed to protect us from rain, sleet, and snow, but they won’t last forever. If you keep your house repair up, maintain your roof, and install a gutter cap system, however, you can seriously extend the lifespan and longevity [read more...]
Friday, 12 June 2009
A Gutter Cap Can Make All The Difference
Easy Installation How does a gutter cap work, and why does your house need one? Everyone knows exactly how a roof works. The roof exists to protect your house’s interior from the elements – rain, snow, sleet, etc. It is a physical barrier between you and mother nature. There’s no confusion with regards to the necessity of [read more...]
Gutter Guard Installation Is Easy
It’s Worth It If you are a homeowner who is serious about maintaining a good yard, installing a gutter guard on your roof is absolutely required. It goes without saying that every roof must have a gutter in order to divert the flow of rainwater to a pre-selected area suitable for dispersal. Everyone knows that. If you [read more...]
Gutter Guards Protect Your Gutters Gutter protection? What’s that? And is it even necessary? Homeowners are usually pretty vigilant about protecting their roofs, lawns, yards, and house. They put up high quality roofing material to keep out water and weather, they lay high quality sod so that their lawns are greener than the neighbor’s, and they install [read more...]
Gutter Shields Are Incredibly Important For House Health
Protect Your Investment Anyone who has ever complained about or dreaded having to climb up a ladder and clear out a set of clogged gutters should seriously consider installing gutter shields on your rooftop gutters. Homeowners, is there anything worse than having to slog through the rain, sleet, or snow just to clean out your rooftop gutters, [read more...]
Roofing Gutters Require Protection, Too
Take The Time If there’s one thing everyone knows roofs should come equipped with, it’s roofing gutters. Roofing gutters prevent water during a rainstorm from simply spilling over and running down the roof into the yard; instead, the water flows into the gutter, which diverts it toward a pre-selected area that is perfect for dispersal. Without [read more...]
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Good Roof Gutter Design Means Caps For Your Roof Gutters
Cheap And Easy Proper roof gutter design is all about choosing the right way to protect your roof gutters from debris, rain, dirt, and leaves. For most homeowners, getting clogged gutters whenever the rains come is a fact of life. They’ve grown to accept it as an inevitable occurrence. As such, they tend to grow lazy [read more...]
Increase The Value Of Your Home With Roof Gutter Caps
No More Clogged Gutters Today’s housing market is incredibly tempestuous; that much is incontrovertible. No longer are housing values inflated beyond reason. No longer will prices inevitably increase with the passage of time. Now, with the economy in tatters and people more focused on value than ever, you’ll need to update and upgrade your home – [read more...]
Spring: The Best Time To Install Gutter Guard Systems
Seize The Chance To Prepare Your Gutter Guard Systems If you’re trying to install gutter guard systems during the winter rains, you’re better off just waiting around for spring to roll around. Trying to assemble and install a gutter guard apparatus to your roof in heavy rain is even more dangerous than cleaning it! The ladder [read more...]
Your Gutters Need A Gutter Protection System
Protect Your Investment All the scientists and all the experts are saying that it’s not as simple as global warming anymore; now, the real problem is far more nuanced. A more accurate description of the dangers facing us is climate change. Climate change can manifest in any number of ways – increased snowfall where it usually [read more...]
No Gutter Guard Comparison Is Worthy
There Is Just No Contest When it comes to a gutter guard comparison, including the Gutter Roof gutter guard in the bunch makes it an exercise of futility. All other gutter guards pale in comparison to the Gutter Roof gutter guard, and no amount of equivocation can change that incontrovertible fact. The Gutter Roof gutter guard [read more...]
Thursday, 26 March 2009
The Right Roof Gutter Design Requires Guards
Good Design Saves Money The most under appreciated parts of the roof are the roof gutters. They are essentially the only thing standing between the maintenance of your yard and the ravages of Mother Nature. When rain falls, your gutters direct the flow of water in an attempt to prevent the wild elements from flooding your [read more...]
Mother Nature Has A Heavy Hand - Get Gutter Guards
Gutter Guards Protect Your Yard Mother Nature provides all the essentials for life on this planet, especially water in the form of rainfall. She can have a heavy hand when it comes to watering the plants, though, making gutter guards necessary for protecting your lawn and garden from the elements. When the rain does come, your [read more...]
Cleaning Gutters Is So 1990s - Gutter Protectors
Protect Your Home And Gutter With Gutter Protectors I don’t know about you, but my single most-hated job as a teen growing up in the 90s was cleaning my dad’s gutters. Not only did the guy refuse to invest in gutter protectors, he also used the very same antique ladder my great grandfather used to build [read more...]
Gutter Caps Protect Your Lawn And Home From Floods
Gutters Caps Are Easy to Install Gutter caps are absolutely necessary nowadays. Simply having rooftop gutters isn’t good enough anymore. Incidence of rain is rising across the country, and when it does rain it tends to rain harder than ever. Your rooftop gutters are supposed to carefully direct the flow of rainwater down the gutters and [read more...]
Shield Your Yard With a Roof Gutter Shield
Protect Your Garden The worldwide scientific consensus has decided that mankind is inarguably affecting the world’s climate by his actions. Climate change is very real, and with it comes a host of constantly shifting weather patterns. You’re just as likely to see a drought in a formerly lush area as you are to see a torrential [read more...]
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Protect Your Gutters With a Gutter Protector
Never Clean Another Gutter When first buying a home, the most oft-ignored aspect of a house is the rain gutters. They’re just there. They don’t stand out, and most people don’t even think about them when purchasing a home. But paying attention to the quality of rain gutter your new home has is important, because wear [read more...]
Proper Roof Gutters and Roof Gutter Design
Proper Roof Gutter Design Is Simple Almost no one thinks about roof gutters or roof gutter design. Even home builders tend to gloss over that seemingly inconsequential aspect to the building process. After all, conventional wisdom says that a gutter is simply a drainage system, and as long as water flows into it and out of [read more...]
Keep Your Gutters Free of Twigs and Dirt With a Gutter Shield
The shield is the universal symbol of protection. When someone sees a shield, they think of safety and comfort – security. Your home is supposed to be your place of refuge, your shelter from the elements. You should feel secure in your home, and your home should be secure in its structure. Being a homeowner [read more...]
A Gutter Shield Will Save Money And Help You Stay Safe
The Gutter Shield Protects Your House When the rains come and leaves, dirt, and other debris start clogging up your rooftop rain gutters, most people have a couple options for dealing with the problem. The most popular – and most hated, ironically – method is to clamber up a rickety old ladder with a hose and [read more...]
Gutter Guards Do the Dirty Work For You
No More Gutter Cleaning Most people would put cleaning the gutters at the top of the list of “Most Hated Household Chores.” It’s dirty, it’s usually rainy when the gutters need cleaning, and it’s difficult to get a good angle on the gutters. You can use a ladder, but those are often wobbly and unstable. Working [read more...]
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Keep Your Porch Dry and Avoid Floods With Gutter Guards
It’s winter, which, for most of us in the United States, means rain – and lots of it. Luckily, most houses are outfitted with rain gutters designed to keep the rain off your porch by diverting the flow of water. Unfortunately, most gutters are uncovered and open to the elements, which allows sticks, leaves, dirt, [read more...]
Not All Roof Gutter Guards are Created Equal
Some new homeowners never give a thought to the state of their gutters. After all, gutters already come with a house, and most people assume they’re only there to divert rainwater and get clogged with leaves and debris. A few people might install gutter guards, but, for the most part, helpful advancements in gutter guard [read more...]
Protect Your Investment With a Gutter Protector
Purchasing a home is, for most people, the biggest investment they’ll ever make in their lives. Monetarily, it trumps pretty much everything you could ever purchase. You could be paying it off for dozens of years, so you want to make sure you’re making the right choice. And you and your family will live in [read more...]
Cleaning Gutters is Dangerous, So Let Gutter Guards Do It
To most people, getting dirt and leaves clogged in their roof gutters is a harsh reality of being a homeowner. It’s viewed as an inevitable facet of owning your own house, so much so that cleaning gutters becomes a regular – but dreaded – household chore. It’s dreaded for one main reason: cleaning gutters is [read more...]