The one town on our patch where guards are usually a straightforwardly good buy.
We talk more people out of gutter guards than into them. Enterprise is where we do it least, and the reason is structural rather than enthusiastic.
A guard adds weight and it adds a surface that catches wind and ice. Fitting one to a gutter hung on tired fascia accelerates exactly the failure you were trying to avoid. Across much of the Enterprise rebuild stock the fascia is post-2007 timber in sound condition, and that is precisely the situation where guards do what they promise without a downside.
Around the older blocks near downtown and the Boll Weevil Monument, the stock predates the tornado and the fascia is decades older. There we check the board before we quote the guard, and if it is soft we will tell you the carpentry comes first. Fitting guards over rotten fascia is how a $1,200 job turns into a $4,000 one two winters later.
The other case we decline is foam inserts, anywhere in this climate. They hold water against the trough in a region getting 56 inches of rain a year, and debris roots into them.
The canopy here is younger than Dothan's across much of the town, so straw load is lower and a good screen or louvre often does the job - which is meaningfully cheaper than the micro-mesh we would specify under heavy longleaf pine. Around downtown, where the mature trees survived, we specify as we would in Dothan.
$6-$10 per linear foot single-storey, $8-$13 two-storey, $12-$18 and up for steep or difficult access. We measure the actual run and give a firm total before ordering.
More so than on most houses we look at. The fascia is post-2007 and sound, so the guard's extra weight is not a problem, and the canopy over much of the rebuilt area is younger and sheds less. That combination is when guards pay off.
Then we check the fascia before quoting a guard. Decades-old timber that has softened will not take the extra load, and the honest sequence is carpentry first, guards after. We would rather say that than fit them and be back in two winters.
$6-$18 per linear foot depending on the product and your gutter profile. A screen or louvre is often sufficient here, which is cheaper than the micro-mesh we specify under heavy pine.
Tell us a bit about your home and we'll follow up with a straightforward price - usually the same day.
Prefer to talk? Call (334) 845-8127.
Two minutes on a ladder answers it. We check before quoting, not after fitting.
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