Eavestrough Expansion and Contraction20221222025506
Eavestrough Expansion and Contraction
All materials expand when they are warm, and contract when they cool. Steel gutters are less reactive than aluminum ones, while PVC plastic is most af...
Is Your Home Graded Properly?20221213021856
Is Your Home Graded Properly?
December 13, 2022calculate, calgary, fall, garden, gradient, grading, land, measure, property, rise, slope0 comments
Property grading has nothing to do with property zoning, and development rights in this instance. Here we are thinking of the natural, or artificial a...
Does Aluminum Rust Like Metal?20221206104751
Does Aluminum Rust Like Metal?
Rust is the colloquial term for a coating that occurs on the surface of iron, and many of its alloys. This happens as a response to the presence of ox...
What Is the Rake of a Gable Roof?20221130014742
What Is the Rake of a Gable Roof?
November 30, 2022calgary, definition, explain, maintain, rake, repair, replace, roof, surface0 comments
The rake of a gable roof can be quite confusing, because a roof rake is a handy device for removing snow from the surface. Especially as that term us...
How Gutter Corner Joints Can Leak20221122022411
How Gutter Corner Joints Can Leak
Seamless, aluminum gutter corner joints can leak, whether they are on inside or outside angles, for a variety of reasons. We discuss ways to avoid thi...
Snow Drifts Could Cause ‘Gutter Leaks’20221115040508
Snow Drifts Could Cause ‘Gutter Leaks’
We quite often get calls after snowstorms from people who think their new eavestroughs are leaking. However, it’s almost invariably the accumula...
You Can’t Always Trust Leaf Guards20221108011655
You Can’t Always Trust Leaf Guards
There are a variety of different leaf guard designs on the market in Calgary. However they all have the same purpose, and that is to help prevent the ...
It Pays to Have Eavestroughs in Calgary20221101082042
It Pays to Have Eavestroughs in Calgary
Roof gutters are essential in regions where rain falls regularly in significant amounts. Although you could probably do without them if you lived in a...
The Water From Your Downspouts20221026034535
The Water From Your Downspouts
October 26, 2022advice, calgary, downpipe, downspout, extension, open channel, rainwater, rollout sleeve, stealth flow, water barrel0 comments
The job is not done when you have your new eavestroughs up, and running smoothly. That’s because you can’t afford to do nothing about the water tumbli...
Ice Dams Do Not Need Eavestroughs20221018054241
Ice Dams Do Not Need Eavestroughs
October 18, 2022attic ventilation, causes, fixes, hearing cables, ice dams, roof, solutions0 comments
Ice dams may depend on eavestroughs in the sense of hanging over them, but they sure don’t cause icycles. However, it’s still easy to get angry with t...