DMR Gutters Older Aluminum Gutter and Downspout Photopage

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Updated 12-10-2008

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West Linn, Oregon
This house had an interesting passage into the door between the garage and house (shown below). We assembled the 'U' shape in my workshop, delivered it, and fit it into place. It is in some regards a treat to be challenged and do something different from time to time.

3542 SE Belmont, Portland, Oregon

This was an interesting project. Most of the house is covered with vinyl siding, but because her paint was severely flaking off on the wood still exposed, I sold her on covering the soffit with this same gray painted aluminum sheet metal I use to form gutters with. It would cost a lot to strip the paint down smooth to re-paint it.

If you would like to see more details of the custom fabrication needed for this project, go to our Fascia details web page. It worked out really well as you can see.

The Gaboury Gutter Replacement w/No-clog options
half a block East of 23rd on the South side of Irving St. N. W., Portland, Oregon

This was an interesting project near the Down Town area. We had to do some custom work to build out the eave in order to install a fascia board in which to mount the gutters to. We have more digital photos we can send you of this projects step by step fabrication. Just send a request in an e-mail.

The Lesh Gutter Replacement w/No-clog options (5/97) $3,774.48 17th N. E. Fremont, Portland, Oregon
This house was owned by David Lesh, but he sold it and we also replaced the gutters on his new house: http://dmrgutters.com/cg/Lesh.htm On the left side of the house the rain is funneled down into the roof valley that ends in a point. We had to get creative to make a gutter to catch the rushing water coming off this corner of the house, and make it look good as well (shown below). It was tricky, but the customer was quite pleased.

This is the mitered corner work we do, using a continuous gutter run-out. You will not see any of those large nail heads show on any of our gutters, since we have not used nail spikes in about 10 years now. I used them once, and realized: there has to be a better way. I am sure you have seen those big nail spikes pull loose on gutters. We do not believe in such planned obsolescence.

The house in the back ground and to the right is an office building at 23rd E. Burnside. I re-roofed it, as well as replaced the gutters. I installed a Pabco 40 year roofing with all aluminum flashing. The flat roof in front of the porch was prone to leaking, so I built the roof up around the porch columns, to have a 6/12 pitch. I did this job back in 1996. They since painted the building blue, with a yellow and red trim.

These gutters were the bronze color. Here is a good example of some special corner mitering and custom work we do; like the curved gutter over the entry way. It is on the N E corner of 30th N. E. Thompson. I managed to sell 3 gutter jobs in this neighborhood, all within one block of each other, because of my high quality and attention to detail.

On this Home-Owner wanted me to replace the 1/4 round gutter with the same type, in order to retain the classic look of the house. I managed to point out that the only reason they had used that 1/4 round type of gutter was because they had not developed the K-5 type of gutter machine yet. This house, like many of it's era, has wood moldings at the roofs edge that are the same shape and size of the K-5 gutter, as clearly shown in the picture at the top. That is why they developed the K-5 gutter. They were very pleased with the final out come.

This photo clearly shows the shape of the gutters our machine produces, along with the matching wood molding that was put on the house when it was first built. Our gutter machine forms the gutters from a 12" wide flat stock coils that we get in big 400lb rolls. This is a Mitered End Cap option. It does not seal the end of the gutter better than a standard end-cap piece, but does look a lot nicer. As far as we know, DMR is the only contractor in the North West to offers this option. This option costs less than $30.00 more per endcap. It is primarily a cosmetic feature.

We do a lot of gutters in white, simply because that is what most home owners ask for. Part of that is because for many years most all installers have charged much more for any other colors, or they may not even offer any other colors than white and dark brown, that is painted on the other side of the coil of sheet metal they buy. This way all they have to do is rotate the spool. We are one of the only contractors that does not charge extra for these special colors. We feel it should simply be a matter of customer service. We would rather that you are pleased with the final results.

Here is a house at 3425 N. E. 32 Pl. in Portland Oregon where we were called out in 1995 to help with their problems of the gutters leaking inside the walls of their house. I was puzzled as to how this could be, until I saw it for my own eyes. They had built a custom gutter right onto of the outside wall. It was steel fitted into a channel and each 10 foot section was soldered together. By the time I got there, it already had 3 layers of this cheap steel laid in this channel and all three gutter layers had rusted through. I advised them to have me mount the new aluminum gutters on the outside of the stucco covered wall. Then I would cover over the old gutter with a super wide heavy gauge red painted aluminum dripedge flashing.

This worked so well and they were so pleased that a few years later they called me back to replace the roof. I then had a chance to do a complete rear off, cover the roof with plywood to cover the old gutter, and then re-roof it.

The lump you see below to the left of the pictures was a build up I did over a flat section of roof that was covered with several layers of steel. I wanted to give that section more of a pitch, so I had to get creative to blend it in like this. These photos show the galvanized screens we use to install before we found a source for the stronger black screens we now use.

This is an example of special gutter angles that other installers do not know how to do. We were replacing just one of those poor attempts made by one contractor who thought they could do it. There was no good place for a downspout, so if your look closely, you will see that I mitered an inside 45 degree corner on the left side to drop the water in the near-by gutter.

Here is a house I did in Lake Oswego. This one was a unique challenge. The rafter tails extended under the gutter. It is impossible to level the gutters, let alone install them with a grade toward the outlet. At least not without using a site level and carefully trimming each rafter to notch out to the right specifications. All this while retaining the classic look of the house. I even had to rebuild a few of the rafter tails due to the dry rot they suffered, being so exposed to the weather. I usually recommend to have all the rafter tails chopped off flush. The way we install gutters, there is no need for the extra support underneath them.