Gutters

Tulsa receives about 35 inches of rain in an average year, and nearly all of it has to pass through the gutters before it reaches the ground. That volume is why the question of how often should you clean your gutters has a different answer in Tulsa, Oklahoma than it does in a dry climate:

A gutter that has separated from the fascia is a fastening failure, and the fasteners fail for one of four reasons: the spikes have loosened, the fascia board has rotted, the hangers are spaced too far apart, or the gutter has been carrying too much weight. If you are standing in the driveway thinking “my

A two-story, 2,200-square-foot home near 91st and Yale in south Tulsa needed 170 feet of new seamless gutter replaced before a storm system was forecast to roll through that Friday, which left the homeowner a three-day window to get the job measured, fabricated, and installed. That kind of tight turnaround is common every spring in

A downspout that empties three feet from the foundation instead of ten sends that water right back against the crawlspace wall during the next hard Tulsa storm. That’s the whole problem in one sentence: where should gutter downspouts drain the water, and what happens when a downspout dumps it in the wrong six feet of

If you have ever looked up at a waterfall pouring over the edge of your home during a storm and asked, can clogged gutters cause a roof leak, the honest answer is yes, and it happens more often than most homeowners realize. Your gutter system has one job, which is to move rainwater and melting

If you have ever wondered what happens if you don’t have gutters on a house, the short answer is that rainwater stops being controlled and starts causing damage you cannot always see until it becomes expensive. A gutter system does one simple job: it catches the sheet of water pouring off your roof and moves