Scott found me through the Angie's List web site and contacted me on June 9/08 to get a bid for copper gutters on his cute home in Milwaukie using his account with Alaskan Copper & Brass Sales, since he gets non-ferris metal from them often for his company Tice Industries, that his Great Grandfather founded in 1947.

I had to explain how they do not supply gutter contractors with the parts I need, but we were able to work out a good arrangement. The only options he did not go for was the leaf screens that can easily be put on later if he finds the need for them. Here are shots of the house just before I attached the gutters and afterwards.

He just had this house and garage painted and the roof replaced, so there were no gutters to remove. He had just married his sweetie; Clancy and they had recently returned from Paris before I got caught up with my schedule and was able to install the new copper gutters.

This was a fairly simple installation after I got the exact measurements and spent 4 days in my shop processing these gutters and Leaf-catchers that. It only took 2 half days to get these gutters and downspouts attached.

Here is this set of gutters on my work van for the house and garage all ready to go on, just after I pulled up at the job site. The longest gutters were for the garage at 22.5' long, so I did not need warning flags this time, since they did not stick out past the bumpers more than 4'. I still needed the large 32' ladder to rest these long gutters on for support. I have 1" thick foam rubber pads under them to cushion the bumps in the road.

Once I got set up with my work station I began to install the gutters and a few of the downspouts.

This is the back between the house and garage, where they grow some special potted plants and small trees showing the before and after shots.

I needed the large 32' ladder to get this back dormer gutter and downspout up. While up there I snipped the chimney flashing and bent around the sides, because they left it sticking out nearly half a foot like wings for no reason.

Here is some close-up shots of the mitered endcaps I do on most copper gutter jobs. It costs a bit extra of course, so it is more rare that I do this for my aluminum gutter clients, but it is rare that my copper gutter clients ask me not to finish off the ends this way to save that cost. I make no claims that these would work any better. It is strictly a cosmetic detail.

Here is one of the Leaf-catchers close-up to show the stainless steel screens I now use in them and the 6 stainless steel screws with each bracket I use to secure the copper DS to the siding in order to detour would-be thieves. I just started doing this on Tara North, the copper gutter job just before this one.

$2,197.20 - 146.48' of 20oz copper gutters w/o removal
$1,490.52 - 124.21' of 16oz copper downspouts and elbows
$1,050 - 2 corners and 19 mitered end-caps to seal
$715 -  11 larger no-clog outlets
$585 - 9 leaf-catchers

The final adjusted cost was $126.03 less than the original bid