How To Install A Roof Gutter

How to install gutters step 1.

How to install a roof gutter.

They are currently renovating a large lake house that required all new gutters. Gutters should be attached to the fascia and run the entire length of the roof ending with a downspout. Snap the sections together. Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section.

Steel is stronger and. Gutter components are made by several manufacturers and are available through lumberyards. House flipping brothers dave and rich show how to install gutters on a house. Finally mount the gutters to the brackets and attach them to the downspout.

Lay the gutter into the brackets that you ve lag screwed to the fascia. It s much easier to join sections on the ground than to work from the top of a ladder. Getting started part. If a gutter run will measure longer than 40 feet 12 m the gutter should be positioned to pitch down from the middle aimed toward a downspout at each end.

Once you have all of your supplies start by attaching the downspout outlet and caps to the roof. If you have a choice between steel and aluminum systems which is best. Rotate the gutter upward until its back edge slips into the hooks at the top of the back of the brackets as shown. Project step by step 20 cutting the gutter.

To learn how to install the brackets gutters and downspout keep reading.