Ulster County, NY
Gutter installation and cleaning in Rochester, NY
Rochester sits at the north end of our Hudson Valley area, and the housing there punishes a bad gutter harder than almost anywhere else we work.
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Gutters in Rochester
Rochester, NY
Ulster has a housing stock that punishes a bad gutter. Stone houses, nineteenth century village buildings, and masonry walls that stain and spall when water runs down them instead of away from them.
Nineteenth century village buildings often have little or no overhang, so the gutter is the only thing between the roof edge and the wall. There is no margin built into that arrangement. If the gutter is full, the water is on the masonry.
We work Rochester and the rest of this part of Ulster County constantly. Estimates are free and we would rather come and look at the roof than guess at it over the phone.
On the ground in Ulster County
What is actually at risk in Rochester
On a stone house the thing at risk is not the gutter, it is the wall. That is worth holding on to when deciding between patching an old system and replacing it properly, because the two decisions are not the same size.
Getting water away from the foot of a stone wall is as important as catching it at the roof. A downspout discharging straight onto the ground at the base of masonry has moved the problem downwards rather than solved it.
Older buildings often need the fascia and the roof edge looked at before anything gets hung at all. We would far rather find that at the estimate than discover it on the day with a van full of coil.
What we do here
Four services in Rochester
Seamless Gutters, and what it means here
Size, pitch and outlet positions get worked out from the roof at the estimate rather than assumed from the wall length. On a long straight nineteenth century elevation, a seamless run is the difference between a clean line and a row of caulked joints over a stone wall. Every one of those joints is a future stain on the masonry below it.
Seamless Gutters →Gutter Guards in Rochester
We look at what is actually overhanging your roof before recommending anything. Where the wall below is stone, keeping the gutter clear between visits is worth paying for, and that is what a guard buys you. We will tell you which type suits the tree cover you actually have rather than fitting one specification everywhere.
Gutter Guards →Gutter Cleaning in Rochester
On a house with little or no overhang, a full gutter puts water directly onto the wall, so clearing it is not housekeeping. Twice a year, and the autumn visit is the one that counts. We will tell you what we found, including anything that looks like it is heading toward a repair.
Gutter Cleaning →Snow Guards around Rochester
They are fixed to the roof rather than to the gutter, and laid out for the plane they are protecting. Metal roofs appear on barns, on additions and on a good number of the renovated weekend houses here. Where a metal plane sheds over an entry, a terrace or a path, snow guards are the fix.
Snow Guards →Straight answers
Rochester questions
You are in Pennsylvania. Is Ulster County really in your area?
Yes. Ulster County is the northern half of our Hudson Valley area, not an outlying corner of it, and Rochester is somewhere we work regularly rather than occasionally.
There is staining on my stone wall under the gutter. Can that be stopped?
The cause can be stopped, which is the overflow. The staining already in the stone is a masonry question rather than a gutter one, and we are not going to claim otherwise or offer to clean it.
What we can do is make sure water is leaving the roof properly, that the capacity matches the roof above it, and that the downspout is putting water well clear of the base of the wall, so it does not keep getting worse.
Do you work on older houses with no overhang?
Regularly, and they need more care than a modern roof. With no overhang there is nothing between the gutter and the wall, so pitch, hanger spacing and outlet placement all have to be right. We look at the fascia and the roof edge before quoting, because on a building of that age it is often part of the job.
What does seamless actually mean?
The gutter is formed at your property. Flat aluminum coil goes through a roll former on the truck and comes out as one continuous run cut to your wall measurement, so there are no joints along its length. Sectional gutter is joined every ten feet, and every one of those joints is a seam that can eventually weep.
Where are you actually based?
We work out of the Hudson Valley, in the corner where New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania meet. We do not keep a shop or a yard in Rochester, we travel there, which is normal for this trade and means you are not paying toward a storefront.
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