Gutter Repair and Installs in Missouri Valley, IA 51555

Missouri Valley's housing leans older: two-story frame houses, story-and-a-half homes, bungalows and ranches, some with porches and additions built onto the original house. Gutters on these homes are often sectional, joined every 10 feet with sealant that has dried out, so they drip at every seam. Hangers are frequently spikes and ferrules that have backed out of the fascia, leaving the gutter tipped forward and spilling over the front edge.

Before we repair or replace anything we check the wood behind it. Years of overflow rot the fascia board, and a gutter screwed into soft wood will not hold through a winter. Where the boards are sound, a leak repair and new hangers may be all that is needed. Where the gutter is old, thin and leaking in many places, a single seamless run replaces all of those joints at once.

The Loess Hills rise just east of town. Loess is a fine silt laid down by wind after the last glaciers, sometimes more than 90 feet deep, and it erodes quickly when a stream of water hits bare ground. Downspouts that discharge onto a slope or right at the foundation wall can wash soil away over time, so we place extensions and splash blocks with care.

Winters bring snow and ice, and the state now sees more multi-day thaws than it used to. Meltwater runs into gutters and refreezes overnight, and an older gutter that is already pitched wrong fills with ice that bends hangers and splits seams. Clearing debris in fall and correcting pitch before winter goes a long way toward keeping that from happening.