Never Clean Your Gutters AgainGutter Guard Installation in Osceola, IA

Whether to guard an old gutter at all

There is a point where covering an existing gutter is throwing good money after bad, and it is worth being honest about where that point is. If the trough is sound, the hangers hold, the seams are tight and the slope is right, age alone is not a reason to replace it, and a guard on a twenty-year-old gutter in good condition is a sensible purchase. If the front lip is deformed, if there are pinholes along the bottom from years of sitting debris, if the fascia behind it is soft, or if sections have separated at the seams, then a guard is a lid on a failing container. The awkward cases are in between, and the deciding question is usually how many more years the gutter has in it against how long the guard is warranted for. Putting a fifteen-year product on a gutter with five years left guarantees paying to remove it. A good estimator will tell you when that is the situation.