Putting Up Aluminum Gutters

The home mender dustin luby shows us how to install new gutters with ease.

Putting up aluminum gutters.

Gutter components are made by several manufacturers and are available through lumberyards. Steel is stronger and. Subscribe to this old house. Form strip miter joint at corner cover the joint between two lengths of gutter at each corner with a strip miter a 3 inch wide strip of aluminum.

Secure the gutters to the fascia brackets using machine screws. Click the links below to see inside dus. If you have a choice between steel and aluminum systems which is best. All gutters are attached to your house by mounting system or different types of hangers inside outside or strap and the hangers need to be carefully spaced close together 3 feet or less to give the gutter proper support.

It s much easier to join sections on the ground than to work from the top of a ladder. Snap the sections together. Secure it with eight pop rivets or sheet metal screws. Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section.

Wrap the aluminum strip tight around the underside of the gutter. Afterward insert a 1 inch 2 5 cm 8 32 stainless steel machine screw through the hole and cap it with a flanged nut to secure the gutter to the bracket. How to install gutters step 1. Project step by step 20 cutting the gutter.

Ask this old house general contractor tom silva installs an alternative to a gutter when a traditional one does not work.