While winter rain can be breathtaking to watch as it pours, the freezing temperatures bring along tons of problems with them. From limiting day-to-day mobility and causing a surge in the road accidents to the accumulation of ice on the roof and outside your home, there are a variety of problems to deal with, freezing downspouts being one.

Frozen downspouts not only cause clogging and drainage problems but can also lead to more serious issues such as roof damage, wall cracks and an increase in debris everywhere around the house. The debris and snow combined can result in blocked pipes and hindered water flow, causing further damage by freezing the whole gutter or downspout.

Today, we’ll talk about what you can do to prevent and resolve frozen downspouts in your home this winter.

Cleaning out gutters and regular maintenance doesn’t sound like a dream chore but we all have to do it. It's important to ensure the efficiency of all elements—plumbing, electricity, attic, etc.—around the house to keep everything functional and working to its maximum capacity.

Gutter maintenance is one of the key aspects of an efficient house. It can save you hours in lost productivity or time spent dealing with dire consequences such as smell, erosion, mold, cracks in walls and so much more. Not to mention the serious dent in your budget spent on recovery and the repair process.

Gutters malfunction for a variety of reasons; however, in this blog, we’ll mainly talk about the problems they face during winters and what preventive measures must be taken to ensure maximum functionality.

Recently, Tropical Storm Nestor left a trail of destruction in Florida—uprooted trees, overturned vehicles, and ripped off roofs. Unfortunately, the Sunshine State has a history of tornados, heavy rains, and storms.

Therefore, it’s important for homeowners to keep their homes protected. One of the ways to keep the foundation of your house protected is by installing a quality rain gutter. Here are some pointers on how to choose the right rain gutter for your home:

Most homeowners do a lot of homework before installing a rain gutter in their homes. And they should! After all, rain gutters provide protection against water damage by redirecting rainwater from your home’s foundation and basement.

In fact, rain gutters can potentially save you thousands of dollars in costly repairs. Hence, it’s important to make sure that you invest in a quality rain gutter system.

Let’s check out some different types of rain gutters to help you make the right call:

Have you checked your gutters recently? Here are some problems gutter blockages can cause to your property.

Happy Birthday, America! We hope everyone enjoyed a happy and healthy 4th of July this year.  

During this very rainy Florida summer we are excited to make available a few job opportunities for our community. Anyone with roofing or raingutter installation or sales experience please inquire today!

Happy New Year! We have enjoyed serving the state of Florida for over 25 years. Thank you for all the referrals in 2018.

Invest in your home for 2019 and upgrade to a complete set of custom seamless gutters with custom seamless downspouts. Treat yourself to larger sized, more efficient gutters this year! Bigger is always better! Seamless available in 6", 7" and 8" accompanied with seamless round downsputs or seamless 3X4 downspouts. 

The Romans brought rainwater systems to Britain. The technology was subsequently lost, but was re-introduced by the Normans. The White Tower, at the Tower of London had external gutters.^[19] In March 1240 the Keeper of the Works at the Tower of London was ordered by King Henry "to have the Great Tower whitened both inside and out". This was according to the fashion at the time. Later that year the king wrote to the Keeper, commanding that the White Tower's lead guttering should be extended with the effect that "the wall of the tower ... newly whitened, may be in no danger of perishing or falling outwards through the trickling of the rain".^[20]

In Saxon times, the thanes erected buildings with large overhanging roofs to throw the water clear of the walls in the same way that occurs in thatched cottages. The cathedral builder used lead parapet gutters, with elaborate gargoyles for the same purpose. With the dissolution of the monasteries- those buildings were recycled and there was plenty of lead that could be used for secular building. The yeoman would use wooden gutters or lead lined wooden gutters. ^[19]

When The Crystal Palace was designed in 1851 by Joseph Paxton with its innovative ridge-and-furrow roof, the rafters that spanned the space between the roof girders of the glass roof also served as the gutters. The wooden Paxton gutters had a deep semi-circular channel to remove the rainwater and grooves at the side to handle the condensation. They were under trussed with an iron plate and had preformed notches for the glazing bars: they drained into a wooden box gutter that drained into and through structural cast iron columns.^[21]

The industrial revolution introduced new methods of casting-iron and the railways brought a method of distributing the heavy cast-iron item to building sites. The relocation into the cities created a demand for housing that needed to be compact. Dryer houses controlled asthma, bronchitis, emphysema as well as pneumonia. In 1849 Joseph Bazalgette proposed a sewerage system for London, that prevented run-off being channelled into the Thames. By the 1870s all houses were constructed with cast iron gutters and down pipes.^[19] The Victorian gutter was an ogee, 115mm in width, that was fitted directly to the fascia boards eliminating the need for brackets.^[22] Square and half-round profiles were also available. For a brief period after the first world war asbestos-cement guttering became popular due to it being maintenance free: the disadvantages however ensured this was a short period: it was more bulky and fractured on impact ^[23]

Fix loose and/or leaking gutters and make sure downspouts carry drainage well away from the house. Protect the foundation of your home. Please call us 1-800-803-5404 if you have any questions.