Fix the gutter first. Then protect it.
North York runs across the top of the City of Toronto, from the Humber River east to the Don and north to Steeles Avenue, where Vaughan and Markham begin. It was a city in its own right until the 1998 amalgamation, and much of its housing stock went up in the decades after the war.
Houses of that age have usually had their gutters rehung at least once, and the fascia behind them has taken years of overflow. We take the run back to a working state before anything is fitted over it: cleaned out and flushed, resealed at every joint, brought back to a quarter inch of fall per ten feet, and reinforced with new heavy duty hangers.
Five steps on every North York job.
Four of the five happen before any mesh goes on. That order is the whole difference between gutter protection and a guard laid over a gutter that was already failing.
- Step 01
Clean
Everything comes out by hand, then the run is flushed until the downspout comes out clear.
- Step 02
Reseal
Every corner, end cap, seam and downspout collar is sealed. This is where an old gutter actually leaks.
- Step 03
Realign
Sagging sections come back to line and the whole run is set to a quarter inch of fall per ten feet.
- Step 04
Reinforce
New heavy duty hangers go in wherever the old ones pulled loose, before any weight goes on top.
- Step 05
Protect
Stainless steel micro-mesh goes on last, cut to your gutter profile and fastened down.
Stainless steel micro-mesh on an aluminum frame
A rigid aluminum frame for structural strength and long-term corrosion resistance, and a precision stainless steel micro-mesh that filters fine debris without giving up water flow. Rain goes through. Leaves, needles, maple keys and shingle grit stay on top and blow off dry.
- Aluminum frameRigid, extruded, holds its line
- Corrosion resistantWill not rust or degrade
- Micro-mesh filtrationFine debris stays on top
- Full water flowNothing given up to filter it
Why the preparation matters here.
A guard fitted to a failing gutter fails with it. That is true on every street in the GTA, and it is the reason the mesh is the fifth thing we do rather than the first.
North York
If a guard has already been fitted here and stopped working, the drone inspection will show you why. In almost every case it is the gutter underneath rather than the guard on top.
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