Gutters Constantly Backing Up

Your larger sized gutter should be able to handle more rain than the smaller sized items installed on your neighbor s houses.

Gutters constantly backing up.

You ll commonly find insects leaves pine needles and other plant life. Obstructions in the downspout always leads to gutters backing up and overflowing. And thankfully it s relatively easy to fix more on this topic below. Sometimes they ll even get stuck in the downspout and die.

Gutters can easily clog up with just about anything that blows around in the wind. It s the most common reason for overflowing gutters. When water cannot flow through the gutters properly it becomes clogged and can add excessive weight to the system. Clean out your gutters and downspouts.

If the gutter is clogged some of that water will back up on the roof soaking it. A clean gutter is a happy gutter. At least twice a year you need to climb up on a ladder and scoop out all the leaves pine needles twigs and other debris that may be sitting in your gutters. So a smaller size would be even less able to cope with the problem than the size that you have.

Then take a water hose and run water through your gutters to make sure it comes out of your downspouts. Covering the gutter is the easiest option which relies on surface tension to direct water back into the gutter while preventing leaves from falling in. Your gutter is overflowing because either the gutter itself is clogged up with debris or the down spouts are clogged up. Debris clogging up the gutter and or downspout flow leaves shingle granules sticks from broken tree limbs even plastic bags all of them frequently find their way into your gutters.

In addition to all of that presence of rodents will attract other pests that eat them like snakes. This video highlights the gutter downspout overflow backup issue i was having. Gutters are supposed to direct water away from your roof and into the ground. And it doesn t stop there.

It shows during a heavy rain how it now performs post fix. Also i briefly go into the fix that was done to address. These are 10 15 a food but you ll need a. Gutters also need to be installed with the right projection and pitch angle so water can flow instead of accumulating or backing up.

Some of the water may leak behind the gutters down towards the soffit and the fascia.