The median Ann Arbor home was built in 1971, so the typical house is past fifty, and the oldest are 19th and early 20th century designs near downtown. New work in a city like that comes in pieces: an addition on a ranch, a reroofed edge, a porch roof that never had a gutter. Each piece needs a run cut to its own length.
That is the case for seamless gutters in Ann Arbor. A roll forming machine at your house shapes flat aluminum coil into one continuous channel the exact length of the eave. We use .032 gauge aluminum, and the brackets sit hidden inside the channel.
We recommend 6 inch gutters with 3x4 downspouts over 5 inch gutters and 2x3 downspouts. The city averages about 38 inches of precipitation a year and about 58 inches of snow a season, and a warm afternoon turns a roof of snow into meltwater fast. A wider channel and a bigger outlet give that water room before it reaches the front edge.
The city's sewer and stormwater programs make the end of the downspout part of the design.
City guidance says connected footing drains are mainly found in homes from this era, and that city studies found footing drain flows can lift sanitary sewer flows 10 to 20 times above dry weather during rain. Roof water dropped beside the wall soaks the same soil, so we carry downspouts out and away from the foundation.
Since 1982, city code has required footing drains to use a sump pump or similar system that sends water to the storm system. On these houses and on new additions, the job is choosing where each downspout lands so it does not fight the sump discharge.
The city credits stormwater bills $4.15 a quarter for one to five rain barrels and $8.59 a quarter for a qualifying rain garden. If you plan either, tell us before we hang the system so a downspout lands where the barrel or bed will go.
New gutters in Ann Arbor tend to come up in three situations.
We measure the new eave, form the run to that length and give it its own downspout path, so an addition does not drain onto the older roof below.
Elevation runs from about 750 feet along the Huron River to 1,015 feet on the west side, with steeper hills near the river. On a slope the outlet matters as much as the gutter, so we plan it at measure time.
The Old West Side's 19th-century streetscape has been preserved virtually intact, and houses that old were never built to a standard eave length. Because we form each gutter on site, a run can follow the eave you actually have.
A short list makes the estimate faster and the install cleaner.
Every service we offer here, plus local details, is on our Ann Arbor gutter page.
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Gutter installers in Ann Arbor, MI should be able to tell you whether the gutters are seamless and formed to your roof length, what size the gutters and downspouts are, and where each downspout will discharge. We build 6 inch gutters with 3x4 downspouts and hidden hangers, and we talk through where the water will go at the estimate.
Yes. The neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, so if your address has review requirements, check with the city before the work is scheduled. We install seamless aluminum with hidden hangers, which keeps the roof line plain from the street.
Not directly. Rain gutter installation in Ann Arbor is a separate system from the program, which reroutes footing drain water away from the sanitary sewer to an approved stormwater discharge point. What we can do is carry roof water away from the foundation so it adds nothing to the load.
The Gutter Guys is a full-service gutter company operating in Kansas City and surrounding areas. We take pride in helping our community enjoy their homes while protecting them from unexpected weather damage. Contact us today for your estimate.
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