At Valiant Exteriors we believe that if a job is worth doing, then it is worth doing well, and this applies to eavestrough systems too. We wish we could say the same for the ‘cowboy-out-of-towners’ who descend on Calgary after severe storms. And seldom, if ever, finish their jobs off with custom angled endcaps for eavestroughs and other important details.
You see, they know that few homeowners have the ability, or inclination to clamber over roofs to inspect their handiwork. And unfortunately these unwanted visitors often deal with complaints by simply not answering their phones.
We’ve Learned a Great Deal from Picking Up the Pieces
An eavestrough system should catch every drop of rainwater, and snow-melt flowing down a roof. This requires considerable attention to detail, because buildings are never perfectly square, nor roofs consistently even.
Unfortunately, the average roofer neither has the time, nor the inclination to follow through on these details . That’s because they only use standard fittings, including endcaps that assume all corners are square, and all roofs level and even.
This approach works about as well a closing a round hole with a square stopper. Inevitably, the eavestroughs fail to catch all the snow-melt and rainwater. The homeowner becomes accustomed to drips after rains. They seldom relate these to faulty eavestrough installations allowing leaks.
Fixing Problems with Custom Angled Endcaps for Eavestroughs
Please glance again at our image for this post. This house has an unusual arrangement of valleys discharging moisture above the gutter line. The more we study the picture, the more we wonder whether the original contractor installed eavestroughs at those points at all.
By the time the client called us, an eavestrough system had been added. “It is half-useless,” the client complained. “Every time it rains, the window gets wet and water pools outside the front door. The time was overdue for our bespoke solution!
Valiant to the Rescue with Custom Angled Endcaps
Both collection points were cases in point where a standard, square endcap would simply not do the job. This was because the moisture coming down the valleys would flow past them, resulting in the problems our new client shared.
We added the custom angled endcaps we keep in reserve for just such an occasion, and we are happy to report the client was well pleased. Every job we do at Valiant Exteriors in Calgary is worth doing well, because every client deserves good service from us!
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Example of Custom Angled Endcaps ©Valiant Exteriors