It's time to take action and avoid costly damage to your home. Gutters play a crucial role in protecting your home from water damage, and even minor issues can quickly escalate into more significant problems. Here are some reasons why you shouldn't wait to get your gutters fixed: Water Damage - When gutters are damaged, water can leak into your home's foundation, walls, and roof, causing costly damage. This damage [...]
Surrey's heavy rains could lead to a build-up of gunk inside your gutter systems. Gutter gunk is a sloppy mess of mud, leaves, pine needles, moss, dirt and stagnant water and as this mess builds up inside your rain gutters and weighs them down, that weight can cause the gutter to pull away from the home. Loose and damaged gutters lead to bigger problems down the line when the protective [...]
In the last 5 years Home Builders have noticed a growing trend in factors that affect purchase decisions among new home buyers. In less than 12 seconds a home's curb appeal can make or break a decision on whether a buyer wants to even view the house let alone buy it. According to a Harris Interactive Study 78% of Buyers felt that the look of the home's exterior was "Extremely" [...]
Regular gutter cleaning is an important aspect to maintaining and protecting your Vancouver area home or building from water damage that can occur when all that water isn’t able to properly flow away from the house. But if you don’t know what you’re doing this project can be more dangerous than many people realize. Each year, a significant number of homeowners are injured trying to clean out their gutters [...]
Let’s be honest. Cleaning the gutters is probably not one of those chores that has you so excited you’re leaping out of bed on a Saturday morning. Ignorance is bliss? I’ll get to it next year? Sound familiar? How high is cleaning the gutters on your To Do list? According to WorkSafe BC, it might be a little too high Unfortunately this is one of those instances when [...]
It’s hard to believe that autumn has arrived. Especially when the Lower Mainland is forecast for sunny skies and 20°C for the first few days of October. Regardless, the leaves are turning and we can only expect the clear blue canopy above to disappear soon enough. The rain will come, the winds will blow, and frost will coat your backyard and home. Before this all occurs, you will want to [...]
How do you know it’s time to replace your gutters? Rain gutters are one of those items that are not always top of mind for home owners and property managers, yet they play such a vital role in protecting your home, strata or business complex from water damage. Depending on where you live in metro Vancouver, you have different environmental factors that play into the life and maintenance of your gutter [...]
One of the biggest issues for the gutters on your home here in the Lower Mainland comes from residing in the wettest climate in the country. The average rainfall in Greater Vancouver proves to be a challenge for homeowners in many ways and it all begins above your heads, on the roof’s edges. Gutter overflow occurs when something prevents the water runoff entering your gutters from reaching and/or expelling from its downspouts. Water builds up and the [...]
It’s that time of the year when households are unearthing tangled cords of holiday lights from the bottoms of boxes in their garage storage space. If you count yourself among them we urge you to pause for a moment before illuminating the ledges of your home. You see, year after year homeowners that don’t take the necessary precautions damage their gutter system in some manner by hanging hoards of lights from their roof’s appendages. However, we understand that this news [...]
