Seamless gutters · Installation · Replacement
Seamless gutters and gutter installation in Lakewood, OH
New aluminum gutter run out in one piece on your driveway to the exact length of your eave, hung into solid wood, pitched to the downspout. For the steel that rusted through in 1994 and the sectional run that leaks at every joint.
How an install goes on a Lakewood lot
The machine rides on the truck. It takes a coil of aluminum and rolls out a K-style gutter in one continuous piece, as long as your eave, right there in the driveway. On a Lakewood lot that means the truck is in the shared drive or at the curb and the run gets carried in over the neighbor's hedge, which the crew has done a thousand times.
The old gutter comes down first. Then the fascia gets looked at honestly, because a new gutter hung on rotten wood is a repair call in two years. Hidden hangers go in every two feet, closer where ice loads are worst on the north side. Downspouts go where water should actually leave the house, which on a double is usually not where the last ones were.
- 5-inch or 6-inch K-style, sized to the roof area draining to each run
- Hidden hangers screwed into solid wood, not spikes into old fascia
- Corners mitered and sealed, downspouts strapped, extensions to grade
- Color matched to trim from the standard aluminum palette
- Old gutter hauled away, tree lawn left the way it was
When replacement beats another repair
Some gutters are worth saving and the repair page covers those. The ones that are not: galvanized steel with rust bleeding through the paint at the seams, sectional aluminum that has been resealed at every joint more than once, a run that sags between every hanger because the metal has stretched, and anything a limb crushed flat. On those, another repair is money toward a replacement you will still need.
The house tells you the size. A bungalow or a small colonial drains fine into 5-inch. A double's big rear roof, two and a half stories of shingle dumping onto one run over the driveway, wants 6-inch gutter and a 3-by-4 downspout so the July cloudbursts off the lake do not go over the lip.
Prices by house type sit on the cost page. Adding guards to a new install is the cheapest time to do it, and the guards page says which kind survives a maple.
The century-home question
Half-round, K-style, and the houses that had gutters before aluminum existed
Lakewood's Craftsman bungalows and Colonial Revivals mostly hung half-round gutters on brackets when they were built, and a lot of Clifton Park never hung gutters at all because the box gutter was built into the cornice. Putting a K-style run on a house designed for half-round works, and most of the city has done it. It also looks like what it is.
Half-round aluminum on exposed brackets gives the original look back for a modest premium, and it self-cleans better than K-style because there is no inside corner for debris to pack into. Copper half-round is the museum answer, priced like one. For the built-in gutters, a seamless install is not the fix, and the built-in gutter guide explains what is. Not sure which your house has? Call (216) 609-0803 and describe the roof edge.
Asked on the phone
Questions Lakewood homeowners actually ask
What do seamless gutters cost in Lakewood?
Installed 5-inch seamless aluminum around Lakewood generally runs $9 to $14 per linear foot, downspouts included, so a typical colonial with 130 to 160 feet of gutter lands between $1,400 and $2,300. A two-and-a-half story double with two full systems costs more for the height and the second set of downspouts. Half-round and copper are quoted separately. The full table is on the cost page.
Are seamless gutters actually better than sectional?
For the leaks, yes. Sectional gutter from the lumber yard joins every ten feet and every joint is a place to drip; seamless is run out on site as one piece per side, so the only seams are the corners. The metal is the same aluminum. What you are paying for is fewer joints and a run sized and pitched for your roof rather than cut to fit.
Should a Lakewood house get 5-inch or 6-inch gutters?
Most bungalows and colonials are fine at 5 inches. Doubles with a large, steep roof draining to one long run, and any house with a roof valley dumping onto a short gutter, do better with 6-inch and a bigger 3-by-4 downspout. The Lake Erie downpours in July are the sizing case, not an average rain.
Can you replace just the gutters on one side of a double?
Yes, and it happens a lot when the sides are owned separately or one side was redone years ago. The new run is matched in color and profile to what stays, and the shared downspout over the driveway gets routed properly while it is down.
Do you do half-round or copper gutters for older homes?
Half-round aluminum, yes, and it belongs on the Craftsman and Colonial Revival houses that had it originally. Copper is quoted by the job and the pros we work with will tell you straight when it is worth the money and when a well-hung aluminum half-round gets the look for a third of the price.
Written quote · Lakewood's own
Get a written price for new gutters.
Street, house type, and whether it is the whole house or one side. The price comes back measured for your eave, downspouts and haul-away included. Or call(216) 609-0803.
- One price for the whole house, cleaning and any small repairs itemized
- Pros registered with the City of Lakewood and insured, ask to see it
- Doubles quoted as doubles: both units, both downspout runs, the shared side