Your home's exterior protection provides you with a guard against weather, wind, pests, and the sun's harmful rays, so it is essential to keep up on the condition of your roof and gutter system. As you maintain and repair your roof, you need to do likewise with your gutters to make sure they can adequately deliver and divert rain runoff away from your home and the foundation soil. Here are some recommendations to help you get the most out of your gutters with the right gutter care services.

Repair Your Gutters

Your gutters take on a lot of wear and tear and not only from rainfall. Whenever there are heavy winds and freezing temperatures your gutters are buffeted in the rain and the freezing temperatures push them to their limit. Fortunately, your gutters are built to last many years, but it is helpful to handle some simple repairs whenever they are in need of them.

For example, when a section of your gutters begins to leak onto the landscaping soil or walkway below it can erode the soil or freeze on the pavement in winter, leaving your walkway covered in ice and a slipping hazard. If a section of the gutters have pulled loose from their roof edge attachments, they can sag and leak water. If the connections on a corner gutter piece have begun to corrode, it can leak upon the area below.

Check into a local residential gutter professional, like A-1 Seamless Gutters Inc, to provide you with a repair for your leaking, sagging, or detached gutters. They can repair and reattach the problems to get your existing gutters back to doing what they do best- draining water from your rooftop. Your gutter professional can patch a crack or hole with a gutter patch and sealant, or replace a section of gutters with a new length.

Consider Replacement

If your gutters are in bad shape with cracks and holes throughout and areas of degrading causing sagging, it may be time to replace your gutters and install a new set. You can look for seamless gutters, which do not have any seams and therefore no weak joints that are at risk of failing later on.

You can also upgrade your gutters to include gutter guards to keep them clean of pine needles, leaves, and dirt that can settle into the gutters and form clogs. When you choose a gutter with gutter guards you won't have to worry about bi-annual cleaning to remove the debris build-up and your gutters will continually flow freely.