They had me replace 4 exterior custom scuppers in white aluminum and
copper for the 2 built-in scuppers seen here, so they would last
beyond the 50 year roofing. The last repairman had covered this
rusty steel with aluminum foil used for cooking as a fix to keep it
from leaking into the house walls, so of course that did not work. I
could not believe my eyes when I saw it! As you can see the rust
holes under that foil were large enough to pass my fist
through.
 
The next
photo shows the temporary repair I did with aluminum just to get
them by a few months until I could fit their job in my schedule and
fix this properly with copper. I took this shot (below) of the other
scupper that was not as bad off from inside the
house to see the staining of the wood under it.

Believe it or not the previous front
gutter repair was even more ridiculous. Someone had loosely set some
10' long 'U' shaped galvanized steel troths inside the built-in
gutter in front. Besides the fact that the seams were loose and not
sealed together was bad enough, but how the rain would largely not
even go into that new troth was even more insane, being loose front and
back with no flashing to make the rain go into it. Even before they
stuffed the old gutter with this other metal the opening was so
narrow you could not get your hand in it to clean out the debris and
there was nothing to attach a screen to. In stead of doing in the
front like they did ion the back by covering up this old gutter and
just mounting the new gutter over the edge, I contracted to fit a
new copper gutter above the eaves like before, but this time it
would be a much more functional system.
 
While up on a 2 story ladder I had to carefully cut the old
steel out of here in pieces with an electric shear. Then inspect the
wood for repair and replacement. I added hundreds of deck screws to
help hold it together better. Since this took several days I brought
some flat aluminum sheet metal with me to cover the exposed part as I worked
across this 40'+ span.
 
The back of the old steel gutter worked as the drip edge
flashing, since I was not able to remove it without tearing up the
roofing shingles. If you click on the right photo it shows the
copper flashing sealed to the outer face of the gutter to cover that
gap. |