How Snow and Freezing Rain Can Impact Your Gutters

How Snow and Freezing Rain Can Impact Your Gutters:

Snow can damage your gutters as it adds weight to the system. Traditional gutters and their brackets are not designed to handle the weight of snow and ice. This causes sagging, brackets to detach, and separation at the seams of your gutters.

As snow melts and freezes these effects can be seen especially at the seams and connections of your gutter system where you’ll notice seeping as the melting snow expands as it freezes.

Ice damming can also be a problem for homeowners. Ice damming occurs when snow melts and freezes at the edge of the roof. This blocks waterflow off the roof and causes water to back up under your shingles which can damage your fascia, roof, and gutters.

How do you protect your gutters from snow and ice?

Keeping your gutters clean and clear is key to keeping water and melting snow draining away from your home properly. This means paying someone to keep your gutters clean, regularly cleaning your gutters yourself, or installing GutterShutter.

Paying someone to keep your gutters clean is a never-ending expense that you’ll pay out 2-4 times a year depending on how heavily wooded the area you live in is and how important you find it to protect your roof and your home’s foundation. Over time, that’s really going to add up.

Doing it yourself may save you some money but you’ll still be buying tools for you to do it yourself, spending time that could be spent doing something you enjoy much more, and it can be dangerous to climb up on the roof to clean the gutters, so your safety has to be taken into consideration too.

Installing GutterShutter means you pay once and never have to pay someone to clean your gutters again and you’re not climbing on the roof, spending your weekend cleaning those nasty gutters out. This seamless system is guaranteed to never clog, sag, or pull away. Yes, even in snow.

GutterShutter features super strong brackets that support the gutter and the hood making it durable and keeping it from sagging. It’s rolled hood keeps debris out, so when snow melts it flows freely through the system and doesn’t fill your gutters and freeze. The system also installs directly to the fascia and under the drip edge helping to protect the fascia from water damage and the roof from ice damming.

Call The Drying Company for a free Gutter estimate and protect your home from the damage clogged gutters can cause! GutterShutter is Clog Free, Guaranteed!