Gutter Splash Guard May Be All You Need20220802014510
Gutter Splash Guard May Be All You Need
August 2, 20220 comments
There can be few things more frustrating that moving into a new home, and discovering the eavestroughs overflow in a storm. We see water raining down ...
Sloping the Streams Around Your Roof20220727114300
Sloping the Streams Around Your Roof
All water responds similarly to gravity and slopes. When we think about it, we realise our eavestroughs are like canals around our roofs. The valleys ...
Why Should I Keep My Gutters Clean20220722101658
Why Should I Keep My Gutters Clean
Gutters, eavestroughs, call them what you like are so ‘up there’ it’s easy to forget them. That is, until they overflow outside the front door, or hor...
Make a Shingle Roof Last Longer20220711225113
Make a Shingle Roof Last Longer
A good quality shingle roof, installed correctly could last as long as twenty-five years with good care. If not, it could show curling and buckling so...
How Eavestrough Screws Work Loose20220704213602
How Eavestrough Screws Work Loose
Did you ever wonder what keeps your eavestroughs from falling down? Well the truth is they attach to the ends of rafters protruding from the roof spac...
Hand-Mitered Corners Are Better20220629065418
Hand-Mitered Corners Are Better
A call came through the other day from a disgruntled customer of another eavestrough company in Calgary. “I thought I was getting a seamless gutter sy...
Why Keep Trees Away From The House20220621064842
My Eavestroughs Are Raining Water – Why?20220614040120
My Eavestroughs Are Raining Water – Why?
An overflowing gutter system is more than an annoying irritation splashing windows, and saturating the garden. That’s because the pooling water sinks ...
Gutter Versus Eavestrough What’s in a Word20220606082314
Gutter Versus Eavestrough What’s in a Word
Folk often use the term eavestrough in Canada and northern United States, but gutter further south to mean the same thing. It’s a matter of culture re...
Practical Uses for LED Soffit Lights20220531083810
Practical Uses for LED Soffit Lights
LED soffit lights are a great innovation, because they are lightweight and low energy consumption. When we come across them we reinstall them, if we a...