How To Transport 10 Foot Gutters

Just about every home improvement job involves hauling 10 ft.

How to transport 10 foot gutters.

With help lift the gutter in place and secure the corner first screwing the bracket into the roof s fascia. But things like drip edges flashing plastic conduit or siding will all flop around and get damaged on the way home. To prevent this the pitch or slope of any rain gutter needs to be a quarter of an inch on average for every 10 feet. Standard gutters come in 10 foot sections so you ll need to connect sections of gutter to span longer areas.

Secure the rest of the hangers with 2 in galvanized nails or screws. If you do decide to just lay it in the truck bed and have it stick out 10 feet i would highly recommend putting some 2x12 s under it to give it strength as it will bow and scrape the ground. Was skeptical about putting the lumber on just the bed so i used the ladder and it worked great. Gutters are often installed level for appearance.

You can instead opt to have gutters made to a custom length but this costs a lot of money and. I had a need to buy a 10 feet long aluminum gutter from home depot. In both cases it makes your rain gutters useless. But if there is too much slope the water collected will just flow out of the edges of your rain gutter.

I created this video to show how you can transport home a bulking long item on top of your car. While it makese sense to slightly slope the gutter toward the downspout about 1 4 in. So while you re at the store buy a roll of stretch cling film. Lengths of some type of flimsy material.