Hang A Gutter By Yourself

Snap the sections together.

Hang a gutter by yourself.

Choose green snips if you re cutting clockwise and red tin snips if. Remove the outlet hole using offset tin snips. All gutters are attached to your house by mounting system or different types of hangers inside outside or strap and the hangers need to be carefully spaced close together 3 feet or less to give the gutter proper support. Cut a triangular section from.

Start by pushing the female end of a downspout elbow onto the first outlet fitting. Of insertion on one end. It s much easier to join sections on the ground than to work from the top of a ladder. Mark the location of the downspout outlet.

Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section. Without the correct support the rain gutters will sag. Home centers sell a gutter apron in 10 ft. A gutter apron is a bent piece of flashing that tucks up under the shingles and over the gutter.

Form strip miter joint at corner cover the joint between two lengths of gutter at each corner with a strip miter a 3 inch wide strip of aluminum. Avoid hanging the gutter hangers too far apart. Secure it with eight pop rivets or sheet metal screws. This old house general contractor tom silva shows how to install an efficient rain handling gutter system.

Subscribe to this old house. You may have to temporarily remove your hangers as you go or you can notch out the apron around them. Once the apron s in place fasten it with sheet metal screws. Attach the outlet.

The gutter hangers are the way you mount the gutter system to your home so they need to be spaced properly. Then hold a second elbow against the corner of the house in line with the first elbow. If you leave too much space between the hangers the rain gutters will actually sag causing the water to pool instead of flowing through. Measure the distance between these fittings and cut a short length of downspout to join the allowing for about 1 1 2 in.

Wrap the aluminum strip tight around the underside of the gutter.