Gutters play a crucial role in protecting your home from water damage, directing rainfall away from your home’s foundation, walls, and landscaping. However, when gutters get old or are not maintained properly, they can turn from protectors to sources of significant problems for your property. Understanding how old gutters can damage your home is vital to maintaining the integrity and value of your property.
How to Tell if Your Gutters Are Coming Loose
The gutters aren’t often noticed, but keeping an eye on their condition is essential. After all, you don’t want them to come loose from your roofline.
Common Reasons Why Gutters Get Damaged and Overflow
When gutter issues are ignored and repairs are skipped or delayed, your property is exposed to far more than a small amount of water and moisture buildup. Water backed up in a blocked gutter can leak into other portions of the house, including the foundation, producing water damage that jeopardizes the house’s structural integrity and necessitates expensive repairs and replacement (and can be a lot more expensive if the water… Continue Reading
What You Need to Know About Gutter Leader Heads
Also called rain collectors, gutter boxes and conductor heads, gutter leader heads are primarily used to boost your home’s appearance from the outside. Aside from that, they work to prevent water overflow and ice buildup in the gutters and downspouts. Leader heads also enable air to enter the conductor, prevent vacuum lock and improve water flow.
