How To Hang Up Gutters

Hang the gutter sections.

How to hang up gutters.

Without the correct support the rain gutters will sag. Wrap the aluminum strip tight around the underside of the gutter. It s much easier to join sections on the ground than to work from the top of a ladder. Secure it with eight pop rivets or sheet metal screws.

Attaching the downspout outlet and caps 1. From the end of the receiving gutter. Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section. Snap the sections together.

First install the gutter sections into the outlets using the hangers to support the individual sections. Choose green snips if you re cutting clockwise and red tin snips if. Then set the new length of gutter into the installed length with about 5 in. Cut a triangular section from.

Attach the outlet. Measure the fascia to determine the length of the gutter. Secure the end cap to the gutter with a crimping tool. Use a plastic slip joint at the end of every 10 foot length connecting the gutter sections for each section with connectors.

Remove the outlet hole using offset tin snips. Mark the location of the downspout outlet. Measure from the corner of your home to the center of the downspout. Project step by step 20 cutting the gutter.

Snap a chalk line across the fascia creating the proper pitch toward the downspout end. 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. Run the bead up both sides. Of overlap snap the front flanges together and screw the overlap together with sheetmetal screws.