How To Install Water Gutters

It s much easier to join sections on the ground than to work from the top of a ladder.

How to install water gutters.

Choose green snips if you re cutting clockwise and red tin snips if. Getting started part. Measure from the corner of your home to the center of the downspout. Gutter components are made by several manufacturers and are available through lumberyards.

Attaching the downspout outlet and caps 1. How to install gutters step 1. Attach another elbow at the bottom of the downspout to divert water away from the foundation. If you have a choice between steel and aluminum systems which is best.

Attach the outlet. Snap the sections together. Mark the location of the downspout outlet. Hold another elbow against the house and cut a piece of downspout to fit between the two elbows.

Screw a downspout elbow to the outlet tube protruding down from the gutter. Secure the downspout outlet to the gutter with four pop rivets or screws. Measure the fascia to determine the length of the gutter. Project step by step 20 cutting the gutter.

Remove the outlet hole using offset tin snips. Anchor the downspout to the wall with two brackets one near the top of the wall and the other just above the foundation. Installing gutters in 18 steps snap a chalk line across the fascia creating the proper pitch toward the downspout end. To attach a downspout assemble an elbow and a short length of downspout to carry the run to the wall.

Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section.