HomeGutter Replacement
Gutter replacement for Lebanon and Boone County homes.
Old sectional gutters fail at the seams and the fasteners long before the metal itself wears out. We take the old system down, check the fascia it was hiding, and fabricate seamless gutter on site to the length and size your roof actually needs, not whatever size happened to be on the truck.
When gutters actually need replacing, not just cleaning
Most gutter problems we get called for start with water showing up somewhere it shouldn't, and the gutter itself is only sometimes the reason. A clogged run overflowing after a storm often just needs cleaning or guards. A run that overflows even when it's clear, on the other hand, is usually undersized for the roof feeding it, and no amount of cleaning fixes that.
The clearer signs of a gutter that has actually failed: seams along the trough that have opened up and started leaking, which is common on older sectional aluminum gutter joined every ten feet or so with soldered or riveted seams that give out over time. Spike-and-ferrule fasteners that have worked loose and let the whole run pull away from the fascia, which you'll see as a gutter tilted the wrong way or visibly separated from the house at one end. Sagging sections that hold standing water between hangers rather than draining, which usually means the original slope, typically about a quarter inch of drop for every ten feet of run toward the downspout, was never set correctly or has shifted as fasteners loosened.
What's usually hiding behind an old gutter
Fascia board sits directly behind and above the gutter, which makes it the first thing to take damage when a gutter has been leaking, overflowing, or letting water backsplash behind it for years. It is also completely hidden from the ground, so a homeowner has no way to know it's happening until the old gutter comes down.
We find soft or rotted fascia on a meaningful share of the replacement jobs we do, especially on houses where the gutters were clearly original to the build. When that happens we stop, photograph it, and give you the repair price in writing before doing anything, the same way we handle it on a roof tear-off. Fascia has to be sound before new hangers go into it. Screwing a heavy, water-filled gutter run into rotted wood just sets up the next failure.
Why every gutter we hang is 6 inch
We install seamless 6-inch K-style aluminum gutter, and only that. We do not install 5-inch or half-round. A 5-inch trough is what a lot of the old sectional gutter we tear off was built with, and it is undersized for more Boone County roofs than homeowners expect; 6-inch comfortably outperforms it on nearly every roof we see, and the cost difference is small next to what the added capacity buys you in a hard downpour. If your home is a historic property where a half-round profile is the architectural fit, that is a specialty product outside what we install, and we will tell you so rather than talk you into K-style that does not belong on the house.
| Style | Relative capacity | Best fit | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 in K-style, 2x3 downspout | ~600 sq ft per outlet | Small structures, garages, additions | Plenty for a small roof on its own. Undersized fast if it also catches runoff from a bigger roof plane above it. |
| 6 in K-style, 3x4 downspout | ~1,200 sq ft per outlet | Most single- and two-story homes | What we install by default on primary elevations, since the wider downspout is what keeps a hard summer storm inside the gutter instead of over the front lip. |
| 6 in K-style, two 3x4 outlets on one run | Split flow at a heavy convergence point | Homes where two or more roof planes dump into a single corner | Rather than oversizing one downspout past what it can physically drain in a downpour, we sometimes hang two outlets off one long run. |
Downspouts matter as much as the trough size. A common rule of thumb puts a standard 2x3 inch downspout at roughly 600 square feet of roof area it can keep up with, and a larger 3x4 inch downspout at about double that. Spacing follows a similar logic: one downspout for roughly every 30 to 40 feet of gutter run is the usual starting point, tightened up near valleys or any spot where two roof planes dump into the same section of gutter, since that's where water concentrates fastest.
How a gutter replacement job runs at your house
- Free inspection. We walk the fascia, soffit, existing gutter and downspout layout, and check how water is actually draining off your roof today.
- Written scope. Size, style, color and downspout count named as line items, not left as an allowance.
- Removal. Old gutters and downspouts come down, and the fascia gets a real look once it's exposed.
- Fascia repair, if needed. Rotted sections replaced or repaired before anything new is hung, priced in writing before we do it.
- On-site fabrication. Coil stock is run through a portable roll-forming machine at your house, so the gutter itself is one continuous piece for the length of each run, no factory seams except at corners, end caps and downspout outlets.
- Hanging and slope. Hidden hangers set at consistent spacing, tightened up further in areas that carry heavier snow and ice load through winter, with slope built in toward each downspout.
- Downspouts and extensions. Sized to the roof area they serve, placed near valleys and concentration points, with extensions carrying water away from the foundation.
- Cleanup and walk-through. Old material hauled off, yard swept, and a walk around the house with you.
Warranty
Every gutter replacement we do carries a 2-year workmanship warranty on the installation itself, not just the material. See the full warranty breakdown for how that compares to our paint and roofing coverage.
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What homeowners ask us about replacing gutters.
We only install 6-inch. It comfortably outperforms 5-inch on nearly every roof we see in Boone County, so that is the trough size on every job. What we size to your specific roof, run by run, is the downspout: 2x3, 3x4, or two 3x4 outlets on one run for a heavy convergence point.
It means the trough for each run is formed in one continuous piece from coil stock on site, instead of assembled from ten-foot sections joined by seams that eventually leak. There are still joints at inside and outside corners, end caps and downspout outlets, those can't be avoided, but the long, flat runs where old gutters typically fail first have none.
No. We install seamless 6-inch K-style aluminum gutter exclusively. Half-round suits historic or higher-end architecture where the flat, molded face of K-style looks out of place, but it is a specialty product on different strap-style hardware that we do not install. If that is what your home calls for, we will tell you honestly rather than put K-style where it does not belong.
We stop, photograph it, and give you the repair price before doing anything. It's common enough on older homes that we plan for the possibility, but we never replace fascia without showing you what we found first.
Often worth considering at the same time, since the labor to add guards after new gutters are already hung is more than doing it in one visit. See gutter guards installation for what that involves.
Frequently, since the drip edge is already being replaced and the fascia is already exposed on a roofing job, which makes bundling the labor cheaper than doing it as a separate visit. We also handle gutter replacement in Noblesville and the rest of Boone County on its own, roof work or not.
Usually one of four things: debris blocking the run, a 5-inch gutter on a roof that sheds more water than it can carry, too few downspouts, or pitch that has drifted so water pools instead of moving. We check all four before recommending anything. Sometimes the fix is guards, not new gutters.
Paint first. We pull the old gutters, paint the fascia bare, then hang the new run over cured paint, so there is no cutting-in around brackets and no drips on new aluminum. When one crew handles the painting and the gutters, that sequencing is our problem, not yours.
Within 24 business hours, and usually sooner. Calling gets you a person fastest during office hours, Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Yes to both. Gutter replacement jobs start with 50% down, which orders material and holds your spot on the schedule, and the balance is due once the job is finished and you have walked it with us. Financing is available on larger projects, so ask us about options when we come out.
Where to next?
We will check the fascia and size the run to your roof, not a standard size.
No charge, no obligation. If your current gutters just need cleaning or guards, that's what we'll tell you.
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