Hang A Gutter By Yourself

Remove the outlet hole using offset tin snips.

Hang a gutter by yourself.

A gutter apron is a bent piece of flashing that tucks up under the shingles and over the gutter. Wrap the aluminum strip tight around the underside of the gutter. Avoid hanging the gutter hangers too far apart. Subscribe to this old house.

You may have to temporarily remove your hangers as you go or you can notch out the apron around them. The gutter hangers are the way you mount the gutter system to your home so they need to be spaced properly. 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. This old house general contractor tom silva shows how to install an efficient rain handling gutter system.

Of insertion on one end. Home centers sell a gutter apron in 10 ft. Choose green snips if you re cutting clockwise and red tin snips if. Mark the location of the downspout outlet.

Measure from the corner of your home to the center of the downspout. Measure the distance between these fittings and cut a short length of downspout to join the allowing for about 1 1 2 in. Secure it with eight pop rivets or sheet metal screws. Snap the sections together.

Cut a triangular section from. Once the apron s in place fasten it with sheet metal screws. All gutters are attached to your house by mounting system or different types of hangers inside outside or strap and the hangers need to be carefully spaced close together 3 feet or less to give the gutter proper support. Attaching the downspout outlet and caps 1.

Start by pushing the female end of a downspout elbow onto the first outlet fitting. Then hold a second elbow against the corner of the house in line with the first elbow. Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section. Attach the outlet.

Project step by step 20 cutting the gutter.