"Our job is to get rain water from the roof to the ground without the headache."
- Charlie Quaile. President of Chimneys Plus
Whatever the time of the year, rain and all sorts of debris, whether from fall’s dusting of leaves or a summer’s evening storms, cascade into your gutters. It’s here where problems can grow exponentially larger.
It’s Important To Take A Look
Evaluating your gutters can be tiring and cumbersome, we know; but, the time it takes to examine your gutter system can protect your home investment.
Working gutters protect your house from water damage. When they don’t work, they can wreak havoc on your home’s siding and structure.
When it’s not raining, your gutters look fine, glistening in the sun. When it’s really raining, you’re inside the house. Either way, you don’t really know how your gutters are performing.
Take a minute to evaluate your gutters with the steps below. If you need some help with the process, give us an email or phone call; we’ll be glad to help.
When it's not raining:
- If you have water dripping from the gutter corners, that means the seal has broken and water is standing in the gutter.
- If the gutter is sagging our pulling away from the house. This could indicate really full gutters and weak supports. It also could indicate that the fascia board has become rotten.
- Washed out landscaping or holes in the ground underneath the gutters. This indicates a clogged gutter and overflowing water.
- Wood damage on your deck or window sills also comes from overflowing gutters.
- Your downspouts could become disconnected or damaged and not able to handle water from the roof.
- If your roof valleys are full of leaves that may indicate that your gutters are also full of leaves.
When it is raining:
- Water shooting over the gutters, especially in a corner. This could indicate the gutter is clogged or is not positioned properly.
- Water is bubbling out where the downspout ties into an underground drain. This indicates the drain is clogged.
- Water dripping from between the gutter and the fascia board. This could indicate there is no drip edge between the roof and your gutter.
- Water is dripping from the soffit area. This indicates that the roof is impaired.
If you see these warning signs when you inspect your gutters give us a call or email us using the buttons below.
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Considering how important the gutters are to your home it really does help to know when they’re not working or need repair. I particularly like that the article recommends looking at how and where the water is dripping form. That can tell you a surprising amount of information about what the problem could be as well as what needs to be done to fix it.
Thanks for letting me know that seeing wood damage on our window sills might be a sign that our gutters are damaged. We had to replace our windows recently and never realized that there’s another problem that we have to address. It might be a good idea to reach out to contractors who can weigh in their opinions if installing new ones would be better instead of repairing them.
Water is spilling out over the edge at the corner where the downspout meets our house is a gable house so it’s just where the edge of the the gutter is it’s just spinning out over it the man that put up the gutterings he’s been very awkward and he won’t come back I’ve got friends of the seamless guttering I live in Ireland the next man that does the gutterings he lives 18 miles away. He said he’s too busy and he won’t be able to come and get the fella that done the gutterings I rang you man back again and it still won’t come I have got them cleaned can I send a photograph by messenger to you happy very grateful for any the help
You’ve got the guttering and a downspout I just watched your video and I seen how it was showing how water can be coming out at different areas so it is actually the guttering and it’s at the edge the very very Edge it seems to be actually spilling down out of there onto the wall and this is happening for a while because in the bedroom beside the Gable the actual ceiling is going black the house is 100 years old at the front and it’s a stone mixed house and in the Gable has the big chimney…. So the water is just actually spinning over the edge they corner the corner……