re: Gutters: DIY or Nah?

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I’m a do it myself guy for most things but this was best left to the pros

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Same here, and when I installed gutters on my first house back in the mid 70's, it was an old shotgun house with half round gutters made out of galvanized steel. They were 10 ft. lengths and had to be soldered at every seam. Luckily, I only had to do the long sides of the house since the roof was just a simple pitched one with no gable ends.

If my gutters need to be replaced on my current house, I'm hiring a crew to do it since they go completely around the house and the eaves are almost 20 ft. off the ground on my old 2 story house with 5 outside and 1 inside corners and 5 downspouts that drain into underground drainage pipe that carries it out to the street.

Seamless gutters are so much cleaner looking and offer fewer places for any leaks to form over time and the DIY guy can't do it like the pros.