How To Add Rain Gutters To Your House

Snap the sections together.

How to add rain gutters to your house.

Step one choose a gutter type you can either choose to have someone manufacture seamless gutters for you or you can buy your gutter in 10 foot sections at the home improvement store near you. Apply gutter sealant to an end cap then press the cap onto one end of the gutter. Measure the fascia to determine the length of the gutter. Seal the outlet with the gutter sealant.

Follow some simple steps to complete this improvement. Lay your gutter into the fascia brackets that you attached to the rafter tails. Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section. It s much easier to join sections on the ground than to work from the top of a ladder.

Place this section of gutter on a flat solid surface. With the hammer chisel a v shape into the metal large enough to permit you to use the tin snips to cut out the rest. At the mark point on the gutter use the marker to trace the opening for the downspout outlet. Secure the end cap to the gutter with.

Snap a chalk line across the fascia creating the proper pitch toward the downspout end. Adding gutters and downspouts to your home is a great way to increase the livability and add to the value of your home. Installing gutters in 18 steps.