Mobile Gutter Installation

Gutter Guard Gutters

Guards and gutters are one system, not two separate purchases. Screw micro mesh gutter guards onto a sagging five inch trough that's still hung on old spikes and you've built a very tidy roof for water to leap right over. So when we price gutter guard gutters, we're quoting the whole thing: new seamless gutters, hidden hangers every two feet, 3x4 downspouts, then the guard on top of a run that actually drains.

Live oaks around here don't take a season off. Leaves in spring, catkins right behind them, pine straw the rest of the year. A six inch trough pitched correctly will swallow an August downpour that a clogged five inch one throws at your foundation. The same crew that runs our local siding installation service hangs these, so your fascia and drip edge get a proper look while we're up there.

Gutter Guard Installation

Guards are only as good as the gutter underneath them, so we set them right after the gutter installation while the ladders are still up. Around Mobile, the problem isn't really leaves. It's pine needles, live oak catkins every spring, and that yellow pollen film that turns to sludge after the first good thunderstorm.

We fasten aluminum guards to the front lip and the back wall of the trough. What we won't do is slip the panel up under the first course of shingles to save fifteen minutes, because that lifts shingles and you find out about it two summers later. A guard that only clips to the lip will sail off in the first 50 mph gust off the bay.

The same crew behind our local siding installation service hangs these, so pitch and seams on your seamless gutters get checked on the way by.

Mesh Gutter Guards

Mesh is the guard I put on most houses here, and the reason is pine straw. Live oaks around Midtown drop leaves in spring instead of fall, and the pines drop year round, so a screen with big holes just collects a mat of needles on top and waits for a storm to wash it into a dam. A good mesh panel, aluminum frame with a fine stainless screen, screws down to the gutter itself. It never gets slid up under your shingles, which lifts the first course and gives water a place to sit.

Done right, a mesh leaf guard rides low enough that rain sheets off the roof and through it instead of shooting over.

Most of these go on the same day we hang seamless gutters, and our local siding installation service crew handles both.

Leaf Guard

Mobile's live oaks don't drop leaves politely. Catkins in March, a slow dusting the rest of the year, and pine straw filling in whatever's left. That's the job a leaf guard is actually up against here.

A good one fastens to the gutter, not up under your first course of shingles. Lifting shingles to slide a panel in trades a clogged gutter for a leaky roof, and I've pulled off plenty of both. So we check hangers and pitch before anything goes on, because a gutter leaf guard bolted to sagging gutters just gives water a fresh place to pool.

Most houses take a day. Heavy oak and pine cover push you toward a tighter mesh; a clean roof line over seamless gutters is simpler. Same hands you'd meet through our local siding installation service, working one roof line at a time.

Seamless Gutters

Seamless means we roll the gutter out of a coil right there in your driveway, one continuous run from the corner to the downspout. No joints along the length, and joints are exactly where gutters give up. A sectional run has a seam every ten feet, each one held together by sealant that dries, cracks, and starts dripping on your azaleas about two summers in.

For seamless gutter installation we hang 5-inch or 6-inch K-style aluminum on hidden hangers screwed into solid fascia every two feet, pitched about a quarter inch over ten feet so a July downpour off Mobile Bay actually moves instead of standing in there raising mosquitoes.

The same crew behind our local siding installation service hangs these, so we're already watching how water leaves the wall. Most houses, seamless rain gutters go up in a day.

Seamless Aluminum Gutters

Seamless doesn't mean there isn't a joint on the whole house. It means the run itself has none. We roll your gutters on site from a coil of aluminum, so a 40-foot side of the house comes off the machine in one piece, with seams only at the corners, end caps and outlets. Sectional gutters leak at every one of those joints eventually, and in a Forrest Gump big ol' fat rain, eventually shows up quick.

We hang 5-inch and 6-inch K-style in .032 aluminum on hidden hangers screwed into solid fascia every two feet, not spikes, which back out of old pine board after a few summers. Pitch matters just as much: about a quarter inch of fall per 10 feet. Less than that and you get standing water and mosquitoes. The crew behind our local siding installation service does seamless gutter installation too, and most homes take a day.

Gutter Leaf Guard

A gutter leaf guard down here isn't fighting maples. It's fighting live oak, and live oaks drop twice: leaves in spring, then those stringy catkins right around Mardi Gras that mat into a felt no downspout will pass. Pine straw is worse. It stands on end and threads through anything with openings bigger than a pinhead, which is why plain screen guards fail all over West Mobile.

So the guard has to match the tree hanging over your roof, not the box it came in. Snap-in plastic pops loose in the first 40 mph squall off the bay.

We screw ours to the front lip and never wedge them under the shingle course, because lifting shingles to slide a leaf guard in is how you buy a roof leak three years later. Most houses take half a day, gutters and guards together.

Gutter Repair

Not every sagging run needs to come down. A good share of the gutter repair calls I get around Spring Hill and Midtown turn out to be hangers, not gutters. Spike and ferrule setups back out of the fascia a little further every August storm, and once a section tilts, water pools at the low spot instead of running to the outlet.

So we pull the old spikes, replace any soft fascia board, and hang the run on hidden hangers screwed into solid wood every two feet. Separated miters get cleaned back to bare aluminum before sealant goes on, because caulk over grit and old sealant lets go by the next tropical downpour.

The crew that runs our local siding installation service is up there anyway, so loose trim and rotted wrap get handled in the same visit. When a run has three or four failing joints, though, repair is throwing good money after bad, and I'll say so.

Storm Gutters

A Mobile summer squall doesn't drizzle. It dumps a couple of inches in half an hour off the Bay, and a 5-inch trough on a steep roof gives up early, sheeting water straight over the front lip and into your flower beds.

So on the storm-exposed sides of a house we run 6-inch K-style with 3x4 downspouts, hidden hangers screwed into the fascia about every two feet, tighter under a valley where the water piles up. Spike-and-ferrule hardware is what works loose in a Sally-grade wind and leaves a whole run flapping like a screen door. Seamless gutters help here too, since the only joints are the corners and outlets, and joints are where a hard blow starts a leak.

The same crew behind our local siding installation service checks the fascia for rot first, because gutter installation on soft wood is just a better-looking failure.

Rain Gutter Repair

Not every sagging run has to come down. Most rain gutter repair around here comes down to three things: hangers pulled loose from soft fascia, a miter joint split open at the corner, or a downspout packed solid with pine needles and live oak litter after one of those August afternoon downpours.

The fix that fails is a fat bead of caulk smeared over the seam and called good. That holds about three storms. We pull the section, clean the metal, reseal it right and re-hang it with proper fall, roughly a quarter inch every ten feet, so water actually moves.

If the board behind it has gone punky, that's carpentry, and our local siding installation service handles it the same trip. When the seams keep letting go, gutter replacement with seamless gutters beats patching.

Micro Mesh Gutter Guards

Mobile clears sixty-odd inches of rain most years, and micro mesh gutter guards are the only style I trust to keep up with that. The mesh is stainless steel, woven fine enough to stop pine straw, live oak catkins and the grit that sheds off an aging shingle roof. It clamps onto the gutter and tucks under the first course of shingles instead of being screwed through them. Screw through a roof and you've just bought a leak.

The other common mistake is setting the guard dead flat. With no pitch to it, water sails right over during an August thunderstorm, which is the exact storm you put it up for. We fit them on new seamless gutters and on sound existing ones alike, usually a day on a one-story house. Same crew as our local siding installation service, so ladders and fascia are familiar ground.

Gutter Replacement

There comes a point where patching stops paying. If the back run sags like a hammock, the seams weep every time we get one of those August downpours off the Bay, or the old spikes have chewed the fascia to mush, gutter replacement beats another round of gutter repair.

Here's how we do it. Old gutters come down, then we get eyes on the fascia board. Rotten wood gets swapped before anything is hung on it, because screwing new seamless gutters into soft pine is just scheduling the same phone call for next spring. We roll the run on site, set the pitch, hang it on screws into the rafter tails, and add downspouts where the roof actually dumps water, not just at the corners.

Most houses, that's a day. The same crew that runs our local siding installation service does this work, so your fascia, trim and gutters line up like they were meant to.

What the job involves

Here's how the day actually goes. We measure every run of fascia first, then roll the aluminum out on the truck so a seamless gutter installation on a sixty-foot side comes off as one piece, with no seam in the middle waiting to split.

The old gutters come down before anything else, and that's usually when rotten fascia board shows itself, especially on houses sitting under the live oaks along Government Street. Bad wood gets replaced before we hang a thing. Then it's pitch, about a quarter inch per ten feet toward the downspouts, sealed miters and end caps, and enough outlets to handle what falls here in July instead of one sad corner spout backing up. Most homes are wrapped in a day, two if there's carpentry. Same crew you'd meet through our local siding installation service, same ladders.

What it costs

Gutters get priced by the foot, not by the house. So the figure comes down to how much roofline you actually have, how many downspouts it takes to move a July downpour off your lot, whether we're on a one story ranch or reaching a steep second story, and what shape the fascia behind the old gutters is in. Soft, rotten fascia is the surprise that gets people. Rain gutter prices also climb when you add a leaf guard, though under the live oaks around midtown that's usually money you get back.

I won't quote seamless gutters off a phone photo. Ring us at (251) 551-3653 and we'll pull a tape across the roofline and count corners and outlets first.

The same crew behind our local siding installation service does that measuring, so bad trim gets caught on day one.

Why choose us for this

You've got water sheeting off the roof edge every time one of those afternoon storms rolls in off the Bay, and what you actually want is to hire somebody once, not supervise them, and not think about gutters again for years.

So here's what we won't do.

We won't quote one number on the phone and hand you a bigger one on the invoice.

We won't start your seamless gutter installation and vanish to another job across town for four days.

We won't lean on you to sign today.

We won't talk you into a leaf guard your roofline doesn't need, and we won't leave scrap aluminum and screws in your grass.

We're not the cheapest gutter contractors you'll call. We use hidden hangers every two feet instead of spikes and we set the pitch before anything gets fastened, which takes longer.

The best part of nine years doing this, plus our local siding installation service, and the estimate itself costs you nothing.

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