Birmingham Blocked Gutters

When you’re at home during a rainstorm, you want to be able to sit back and relax as you listen to the gentle patter of raindrops on the windows. What you don’t want to experience is the sight and sound of water gushing over the tops of your Birmingham gutters, flooding your garden, pooling around your foundation, and seeping into your basement to destroy the walls and floor. It sounds dramatic, but that’s what happens when your gutters are blocked.

Normally, rainwater should flow from your roof into your gutters where the gutter system redirects it a safe distance from your home. Unfortunately, gutters are also magnets for dead leaves, branches, twigs, and other yard detritus. When enough debris builds up, it causes the gutters to block. Instead of flowing through the gutters, rainwater will pool until it overflows and damages your roof, fascia, siding, and foundation.

What Happens When Your Gutters Are Blocked?

Blocked gutters can cause a litany of problems for your home. The number one issue caused by blocked gutters is water overflowing from the gutters during a rainstorm, causing water to pool around your home’s foundation. Not only can this damage your foundation, but water may also seep into your home and damage the walls and flooring. This is a homeowner’s worst nightmare!

• Foundation damage: When water pools and stagnates around your foundation, it can cause cracks to form which compromises its structural integrity.

• Fascia and siding damage: Fascia is the connective tissue between your home and gutters. When your gutters overflow, the fascia becomes waterlogged and begins to rot. If your home is built with wood siding, water can even seep down from the fascia to damage your home.

• Landscape damage: If you have shrubs, trees, or flower beds planted beneath your gutters, they’ll be directly in the line of fire when your gutters overflow. All that extra water will rain directly down onto your garden where it can harm or kill your plants.

How do you know if your gutters are blocked?

Blocked gutters don’t happen overnight, and there are certain signs you can look for that your gutters are becoming clogged or blocked. Next time you’re in your yard, keep an eye out for any of these telltale signs of blocked gutters:

• Rainwater spilling over the sides
• Gutters sagging or buckling
• Water stains on your home’s siding
• Plants growing out of the gutters
• Birds or pests rooting around in your gutters

Sound familiar? If so, it’s time to call out the gutter experts before the problem worsens and spreads. You can say no to blocked gutters forever by installing a convenient gutter protection system like Gutter Cap.

Gutter Cap Stops Gutter Blocks

Are you tired of the uphill battle of cleaning out your gutters several times a year and constantly needing gutter repair? While you’re up on that creaky ladder, do you catch yourself wondering why no one has invented a way to protect your gutters from leaves and debris? As it turns out, someone already has!

Gutter Cap is a highly effective and easily installable gutter protection system. Gutter Cap of Birmingham’s custom  system easily affixes to your existing gutters to allow rainwater to pass through while preventing leaves, twigs, and yard debris from entering. Raining flowing down the roof is redirected safely away from your home’s foundation while debris is allowed to simply blow off the roof into the yard where it won’t cause any issues or damage to your home.

Ready for Gutter Cap for your Birmingham home?

Join the hundreds of happy homeowners and business owners in Northern Birmingham and Southeast Georgia who are protected by Gutter Cap. Not only will you never have to climb a ladder and scrape out your gutters again, but you’ll also have the peace of mind knowing that your gutters won’t become blocked and cause costly damage to your home. Give us a call or fill out the simple contact form on our website and we’ll give you a call to set up your free in-home estimate!