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Updated 7 / 2022

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Here is the type of custom fascia work that we have needed to do in order to be able to mount new gutters properly with links to photo album examples in order of dates
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Fascia Board Work 12/06 Sellers (51) 5/18 Wiseman (27)
Metal Covered Fascia 11/08 Adams (20) 1/19 Dunbar (156)
OG Molding 1/09 Pulliam (18) 2/20 Misustin (193)
Fascia Metal Only 1/15 Danner (16) 4/20 Pavlik (85)
Gutter Wedges 2/11 Gamenara (30) 5/20 Traina (96)
  3/16 Kreiter (11) 6/20 Partlow (42)
  3/17 Auran (38) 10/20 MacRae (24)
2000 Yocum (76 pics) 11/17 Zaerpoor (81)  12/20 Valley (50)
2002 Smith (15) 12/17 Braner (65) 11/21 Hepner (22)
2004 Kistler (317) 9/16 Raveaux (167) 2/22 Vidmantas (39)

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Fascia Board Replacement Work

Fortunately, with the screws gutter attachment DMR Gutters does, fascia board replacement has rarely been necessary, but of course in some cases it is needed for a good lasting system. There are times I run into situations where the fascia boards are too rotten for a good gutter attachment, or the nails holding them in place are so rusty that the fascia board would fall off with the gutter. Some times we can just reattach the old fascia boards with deck screws. When fascia board require replacement, DMR Gutters mounts new pre-primed spruce or cedar fascia boards in 3/4", 1" or 1.5" thicknesses depending on the situation. They are attached with long stainless-steel deck screws, instead of just nails. I am quite anal about screws versus nails.

Nails are for Neanderthals!

Here is a few shots of the fascia board work we've done, but the impressive details are not so easily seen. We often need to clean out the eaves first of critter nests, old roofing left behind, many decades of dust, and other assorted debris. At times we run into nest with live critters, so they have to be relocated.

When the fascia has gotten this bad there is also usually dry-rot to the rafter tails they were attached to, so we may have to attach a new board beside the rotten rafter, so we have some firm wood to reattach the fascia board onto. Frequently there is some soffit repair needed as well, if the house has soffit.

I also install soffit when asked. It may be easier and cheaper to just cover it up with a 1/4" hardwood plywood than to scrape several layers of pealing paint to re-paint them, so that's an option to consider.

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Fascia & Rake Edge Metal Covered Boards

I tend to not push this option on our gutter clients, unless the subject comes up. I do my best to not up-sell my clients, but this option will look better and last longer, and is actually more cost efficient as well. It would cost more to hire a Painter to prep and paint those highly exposed boards on your house. Diagonal rake edge board shown here have no protection from the Sun and rain like the siding has from the overhang of your eaves, so they tend to get hammered and warp from this added exposure, which paint alone fails to solve. I use a thicker sturdier metal than what Siding Contractors use, so it is more durable, dent resistant, and less bucked or wavy looking. It just does not have the weathered-wood texture, which does not make sense anyway.

Here is a couple shots of our copper fascia metal cover work new and just 2.5 years later after it had a chance to patina to a soft brown; from it's shiny orange look.  It is often easier and cheaper to do this than it costs to strip down several layers of pealing paint and re-paint those areas, so there is that advantage as well. With just aluminum covers; decades later when the paint starts to peal off it may look bad, but will not rust, and continue to keep your boards dry and shielded from the Sun. They can be repainted along with the rest of your house.

I have a 12' wide bender to cut strips of metal in whatever widths I need and bend it in these different forms to cover the old wood. These cover the wood from the elements to keep them dry and strong and even adds some strength. Paint cannot do that. It also leaves a smoother appearance with less warpage and unsightly knots showing.

This can be done with copper shown above, or les expensive pre-painted aluminum sheet metal. Copper will elevate any future painting issues and not mildew, so no periodic cleaning is needed. Copper may be 5X more expensive sheet metal, but when you factor in the cost of fabrication of these custom covers and the labor to install your cost is not nearly as wide a spread. I attach them with small ribbed bronze nails for the copper covers, or stainless steel nails for aluminum covers.

Below are more photos of complex work I've done with adding fascia board and covering the bottom with fascia metal.

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 The Kistler Copper Gutter Project
Fascia Preparation Work' (12/04)
I worked on the back first. I knew this project would be taking a long time and this was the rainy season, so I decided to fix-up the lower gutters before the upper gutters, since they will catch a good deal of the rain from the upper gutters.

These photos show the build-out of the fascia boards, so the wood shake roof does not over shoot the gutters and a person can actually get their hand in the gutter to clean them out when needed.  I needed to build it out 1.75" on this lower rear gutter, and this was the easiest ones that needed the least build-out.

Here is the work on the back upper sides, where I cut a bevel off the 2x3s, cut to length, pre-drill holes for the 3" Deckmate screws, and install them on the roof edge. Then I cut a bevel off the top of the 5/4 x 6 primed fascia board, again pre-drill holes for the 2.5" Deckmate screws and install them over the 2x3s.  Then install the dripedge flashing under the wood roofing shakes that the roofers neglected to install.

Then there is the custom bent green pre-painted aluminum sheet metal to install to hold out the bottom of the fascia board and tacked in place with 1.5" stainless steel nails.

A few years later after the copper tarnished

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The Dennis Smith Home

This is the back side of his house at 827 NW 25th Ave.  I have done this sort of work on several houses, but this was one I managed to get some good clear photos of with our 4 mega pixel digital Kodak camera.

This is a large 2 story house and was also originally built without gutters, but again, they had a gutter contractor install some crappy gutters later on.

The gutters I took down were the same type as I install, but they were hung with straps that wrapped around the gutter, and then the strap extended from the center of the top of this gutter, over the roof, and was nailed on top the roof.

That means the gutter was hanging in mid air, and would sway in the wind.  the roof had to over lap the gutter half way, making it impossible to screen, very hard to clean, and in a heavy downpour it would actually shoot right over the gutter all together.

When I took the old gutters down, I not only needed to get the gutter measurements, but I had to carefully visualize and calculate the angles and measurements for the size of the boards and the custom sheet metal fabrication needed here.

This house has most of it's gutters over 2 stories high. It was a very steep roof of a 12/12 pitch.  That is a 45 degree angle, and cannot be walked on.  The soffit was also at this 45 degree pitch. This was the best thing I could come up with to resolve this problem so I had a vertical fascia board to attach the gutter to, and have it look like it was made to fit the style of the house.

They place this wood molding up just under the edge of the roof, but this one was especially difficult, since the molding was horizontal, instead of at a 45 degree angle.  There was nothing to screw the fascia board onto at all.  Some of the wood molding was cracked, broken, rotten, and in some places missing all together.

I had to first screw this un-painted board you see in the middle, straight up into the wood molding, so that I had something to screw the fascia board onto.  Where the wood was rotten, I had to use extra long screws that would reach through to the plywood roof, without having the screws puncture the shingles above.

After I fastened the primered fascia board to that bare wood, I installed this custom aluminum sheet metal to act as soffit, and also cover the bottom of the fascia board.  It also serves the purpose to hold out and support the bottom of the fascia board.  I chose a green pre-painted aluminum to make this with. It is the same type of metal the gutters are made from. but I used a wider 15"x 120" sheets to make this from.

I used special ribbed finish nails to fasten the sheet metal in place up underneath, and there on the fascia board.  It was very sturdy when I was finished.

As shown above, this shows the gutter on the new fascia board.  the client, Mr. Smith was very pleased with my work, and even complimented me, saying how it looked better than he had imagined.

It is satisfying to see an unusually complicated job, that no one else wanted to tackle, go so well.  And it is also great to get those kind of comments.

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The Dale Yocum Project (8/02)

Here is a copper gutter job we did in 2002 just above the Metro Zoo, at 4343 SE Fairview Blvd.  It was completed in August of 2002.  It cost $2,200 to build out the fascia boards to properly mount the gutters onto.  It is a big house with over twice the normal amount of gutters.  It was getting re-painted and re-roofed at the same time, so scaffolding was up to help with the back side of the house. 

The old copper gutters were hung with loose straps that were nailed onto the roof.  The gutters just dangled.  With the 3 layer tear off of the old roof, it was inevitable that the gutters would get thrashed, so the Home-owner found our web site using a search engine, and asked us to give them a bid for new gutters.

This shows before and after photos of the special custom work we had to do so we could have something to properly mount the gutters solidly onto the house.  We used pre-primed boards for this, with aluminum sheet metal end-caps.  The fascia board is a 5/4"x 6", custom cut for a true 1" thick x 4.75" board. The horizontal board is a custom cut 1"x 2.25".  We used the cut off wood for a board to screw up into the wood molding.  We used this to have something to screw the top of the fascia board into.  The end-caps were just to keep the little critters out of the wood work.

This shows the gutter mounted on the new fascia board.  It also shows a close-up view of our exclusive mitered end-caps and deluxe hinged screens we offer as options.

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OG Molding Repair

I worked on this project back in the mid 90's located at 3542 S. E. Belmont.  This house was originally built without the benefit of gutters. They would traditionally trim the edge of the roof with this decorative wood molding up just under the edge of the roof to set the fascia back a bit to protect it from water damage.

Code Enforcement Division was eventually created, and one of the codes for this high rainy area of the N. W. was to have all houses equipped with gutters on all houses and garages, so that this excessive water run-off would be managed, to avoid further damage to foundations due to the ground erosion it causes over the course of decades rain fall.

This is the primary reason why the K-5 gutter was developed in the same shape as this classic wood molding trim to replace it without making the house look too different, as though the gutters were meant to be on the house originally.  It is best if gutters can be as inconspicuous as possible.  Not look like you have exterior plumbing on your house. As with the half round gutters of old.

It was later fitted with some gutters that were hung from straps nailed on top of the roofing.  The gutters pretty much covered the old wood molding, which make leaving it there pointless.  They were very loose and since the strap had to support the gutter weight in the center the roof half way covered the gutter, making it nearly impossible to get your hand in the gutter to clean it out and impossible to add a screen cover.

I could rip off the wood trim, fill in the gap with a small fascia board, cut back the roof, add new drip edge flashing, and then mount the gutter. I had done this in the past, but it was very time consuming and costly, so in the efforts to brain-storm a better less costly solution I developed this process.

I just build out this area of the house to have a fascia board to mount the gutter to (as shown above).  I covered it in the same type of pre-painted aluminum sheet metal used to form the gutters, which also acts as a support of the bottom of this new fascia board. I also had to reposition the electrical power wires to the house.

The diagonal edge of the roof was so weathered and rotten, and had roofing nails blasted through it sticking out.  It was so bad that to try to get up there and strip the paint off and re-paint it would have been a very difficult job.  I came up with the idea to run out gutters this same color and cut the length of the bottom to use it to cover the rotten wood molding.  Because of the nails in the way, I had to remove that wood molding all together, so the metal shown here is hollow.  It worked out really well as you can see retaining the original look.

Below is the lower edge of this trim, where it meets with the lower roof.  I think it was a remarkable outcome.

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Fascia Metal Used in leu of a Fascia Board

Here is a few shots of my metal fascia work. By just adding this hollow fascia metal across the ends of the rafter tails it looks like you have a full 2x6 fascia board, but does not push out the gutter, or require the rafter tails chopped back. This is a much less expensive alternative to adding an actual fascia board and having it primed and painted. This is made out of the same aluminum sheet metal that the gutters are made of, so it is a perfect match.

This shows the angled fascia board that makes gutter installation very difficult.  We wonder what the Builder was thinking when deciding this was the thing to do?

Early on we installed gutters using simple wedges to push out and support the bottom of the gutter, since that is what parts were sold for this issue, but they fostered wasp nests behind the gutter and did not look good.

For the LDS chapels like this that we worked on, we custom made a continuous wedge that runs the length of the gutter to seal that gap.

For this project, we did a much more elaborate fabrication to make it look as if the house was originally built with a vertical 2x6 fascia board.

It was made from the same type of pre-painted aluminum sheet metal as the gutters, so they match perfectly.  The Homeowner was pleased with the results.

You can see our Custom Gutter web page to see this custom downspout channel we made for this project to improve the headroom of he back patio. 

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Gutter Wedges for Diagonal Fascia Boards

Here is a few shots of my metal gutter wedge work when needed for support when mounting on a slanted fascia to help bring the gutter up level. I mount it on the back of the gutter with rivets before the gutter goes on the house, so it will be even along the bottom edge of the gutter.

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(a) Gutter Installation
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(d) Chimney Flashing

(e) Moss Control & Treatment

web pages for answers and solutions that could save you thousands of $ and a great deal of anguish.

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1999 Better Business Award

We were also a 1997 finalist for this same award. See our referral web page to see how we managed to be honored with this special award

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