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We had been lucky with rain, or the total lack thereof, in this project, so we crossed our fingers once again and popped the old gutter off of the house.

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In order to alleviate some of Wendy's fears on look, I channelled my inner Wallenda Brothers high-wire self and carried one of the massive pieces of downspout up and onto the upper roof for spousal review and (hopefully) approval.Īfter removal of the old K style gutter we knew we'd have a day or two where we needed to install a fascia board, caulk, prep, paint, and then install the gutter. We had our doubts about how it would work and if it was possibly overkill. Oh well, what am I gonna do, not the end of the world, and we're better prepared for epic flooding now.Īnd though we ordered a smaller gutter for the lower roof, the larger gutter we ordered for the upper roof looked, well, gargantuan. Not realizing this, we went ahead and ordered a whole bunch of 4'. While it would absolutely remove the water we needed it handle for our upper gutter, 4' is massive, and we really only needed 2' downspout for the lower gutter. Such was the case when we determined that a 4' downspout would be necessary on all of our gutters. How's that for getting off on the wrong foot? It's always a bit difficult to visualize sizes of items on your house when you're estimating based on measurements and photos of the products on other people's houses.

I actually made my first gutter misstep at the ordering phase of the project. While my focus was on the upper gutter situation, as that particular gutter was the one responsible for constantly clogging and causing all of our kitchen angst, we were replacing both the upper 10' length of gutter, as well as the lower 10' length of gutter at the back of the sun porch. But whether our eyes were on the prize or not, the venture wasn't free of obstacles or difficulties along the way (a little foreshadowing there).

This went a long way to ease our mind, so we cautiously proceeded with the project with our eyes on the prize, replacing our old aluminum modern-style gutters with historically accurate half round copper gutters. However overwhelmed, we had found Classic Gutter Systems while watching This Old House and were thrilled at the DIY capable nature of their products. As if we didn't have enough going on, the research, purchase, and ultimately, installation of the gutters, were all worked into the overall siding project, rather than setting it aside as its own complete and separate project.

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As we mentioned in our post about gutter and downspout research, the whole idea of full gutter replacement was a bit of a hiccup in our much larger siding replacement project.