Guide
When to Replace Your Gutters (Not Just Repair Them)
7 signs that mean you're past the repair stage. Honest call from a contractor.
Pulling away from the fascia
Persistent gaps between the gutter and fascia mean the fascia board is rotting underneath. At that point, fix the fascia and replace the gutters as one job — it is cheaper than two visits and the new gutters will fail again within two years if you mount them on rotted wood.
Cracks, holes, rust spots
Small isolated cracks and pinholes can be patched with industrial silicone and an aluminum repair kit; we do that work as a $375 minimum repair and you get five years of workmanship warranty out of it. The honest call for replacement happens when any of three things is true. First, you have rust streaks running down the siding from multiple sectional joints — that means the joint silicone is failing across the whole run, not just one corner, and once a sectional gutter starts failing at the seams it usually completes the failure within 18 months. Replacement with a seamless run eliminates the joints entirely. Second, you can see daylight through the bottom of the gutter from underneath, or you can press a screwdriver through the metal — that is end-of-life corrosion, not a patch candidate, and it always indicates more thinning elsewhere on the same run. Third, the gutter is over 15 years old and has more than 30 percent of its linear footage showing visible damage — at that ratio, the patches stack up to more than the cost of full replacement, and the unrepaired sections will fail within a couple of years anyway. We will tell you straight on the diagnostic walk-through which category you are in and quote whichever path actually saves you money.