Vinyl
Sectional pieces that snap together
- Hangers, end caps and sealant
- Old gutter taken down and hauled away
- Leaf guard, per foot (extra)
- Not offered
- Term:
- Priced per foot, with downspouts and corners on their own lines
Gutters and roofs · Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Is it your gutters? Find out in five minutes.
Water on the basement wall, a gutter pulling away from the board, ice along the eaves. Walk the house in the next rain, check five things, and you'll know if it needs a cleaning, a repair or new gutters.
The five-minute gutter test
Five checks, done in the rain
You don't need a ladder. Pick a day with steady rain, or run a hose along the roof edge, and stand on the ground. Answer yes or no.
- 01Yes: clean it, or go bigger
Step 1: Does water pour over the front edge of the gutter?
It should run along the gutter to the downspout. Water over the edge means the gutter is clogged, too small for the roof above it, or has lost an end cap.
- 02Yes: repair, or replace with seamless
Step 2: Is there a drip at a seam or a corner?
Sectional gutters leak where the pieces meet. One dripping corner is a repair. Drips along the whole run mean the seams have aged out.
- 03Yes: rehang it, and check the board
Step 3: Does the gutter sag, or pull away from the board?
Look along the run from the end of the house. A belly in the middle or a gap at the fascia means loose hangers or soft wood behind it.
- 04Yes: lengthen or reroute it
Step 4: Is water pooling at the foot of a downspout?
Water should leave the house and not stand against the wall. A puddle or a splash mark on the siding means a short or broken downspout.
- 05Yes: fix the board first
Step 5: Are the fascia and soffit stained, peeling or soft?
Water that gets behind the gutter rots the board it hangs on. Soft wood gets fixed before any new gutter goes up.
- 06Then call or send a photo
Step 6: Count your yeses
None: leave them alone and clear them in fall. One or two: ask for a repair. Three or more, or a yes on the fascia: ask for a written estimate on new seamless gutters. If cleaning is all it needs, we'll say so.
Gutter materials
How gutters are priced, by material
For a plain one-story house, installed, with the old gutters taken down. Your written estimate prices your gutters foot by foot.
Seamless aluminum
Formed on site to your length, in painted colors
- Hangers, end caps and sealant
- Old gutter taken down and hauled away
- Leaf guard, per foot (extra)
- Term:
- Priced per foot, with downspouts and corners on their own lines
Seamless steel
Heavier gauge, painted, for tree-heavy yards
- Hangers, end caps and sealant
- Old gutter taken down and hauled away
- Leaf guard, per foot (extra)
- Term:
- Priced per foot, with downspouts and corners on their own lines
Copper
Seamless, left to weather
- Hangers, end caps and sealant
- Old gutter taken down and hauled away
- Leaf guard, per foot (extra)
- Not offered
- Term:
- Priced per foot, with downspouts and corners on their own lines
VinylSectional pieces that snap together | Seamless aluminumFormed on site to your length, in painted colors | Seamless steelHeavier gauge, painted, for tree-heavy yards | CopperSeamless, left to weather | |
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| Leaf guard, per foot (extra) | Not offered | Not offered | ||
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Six-inch gutters, extra downspouts, fascia repair and hard-to-reach walls are priced on your estimate.
Ice at the eaves
Icicles start in the attic, not the gutter
Heat leaks up into the attic and melts the snow on the warm part of the roof. The water runs down and freezes at the cold edge. The gutter is where you see it first.
A gutter can't cause that, and a heat cable only keeps a channel open while the cause stays put. We look at the gutters and the attic on the same visit, and tell you which problem is which.
Seal and insulate the attic floor
Keep air moving from the soffit to the ridge
Steam off ice that's already there; never chip it
What we do
Gutters first, roofs when it's time
Seamless gutters
Formed on site to the length of your run, with hidden hangers and downspouts sized to the roof above.
Gutter materials
Cleaning and repair
Cleared, flushed, re-sealed and rehung, with a photo of what we found in the gutter.
What we repair
Downspouts and drainage
Extensions and elbows that carry the water well away from the wall and the cellar.
The gutter test
Fascia and soffit
The board behind the gutter, replaced where the wood has gone soft, before new gutters hang on it.
Services
Roof replacement
Shingle or metal, and the gutters in the same visit so the roof edge is done once.
Roof replacement
Roof repair
A lifted flashing, a bad boot, a few shingles. We say when a repair is enough.
Roof repair
Projects
Farmhouses, barns and the roofs between
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Sample photos.
The crew
Four people, one phone number
Blia picks up. The same four people write your estimate and do the work.
Answers the phone, walks the property and writes every estimate by hand.
Bjorn Carlson
Lead gutter installer
Forms the seamless runs on site and hangs them.
Luc Schneider
Roofing foreman
Runs the roof jobs and checks the flashing on repairs.
Tomislav Petrauskas
Installer
Sets downspouts, cleans up and keeps the truck loaded.
From the neighbors
What customers say about the visit
“They walked the whole yard before they quoted. The machine shed got its own gutters, and the downspouts now run out past the lilac and not into the cellar wall.”
Philomena R.Farmhouse and machine shed, Whitehall
“I thought I needed a new roof for the leak. Luc found a lifted flashing at the chimney, fixed it and told me the shingles had some years left.”
Helmut S.Roof repair, Thorp
“Blia sent Bjorn and Luc to look at the attic as well. The gutters were fine and the attic was the trouble. They said so and wrote it up.”
Thorsten M.Ice at the eaves, Bloomer
“The estimate showed every foot of gutter and what each downspout cost. It was easy to set next to the other two quotes.”
Mee L.Seamless gutters, Colfax
Sample reviews.
Where we work
Eau Claire and the county roads around it
Farms, acreages and village lots in the Chippewa Valley. Give us the road and the nearest crossroad and we'll find you.
Eau Claire County
- Eau Claire
Chippewa and Clark counties
- Bloomer
- Cornell
- Stanley
- Thorp
Dunn County
- Colfax
- Boyceville
Trempealeau and Buffalo counties
- Osseo
- Eleva
- Whitehall
- Strum
- Blair
- Mondovi
We don't work in Minnesota, north of Bloomer or south of Mondovi.
Questions
Before you call
Seamless or sectional gutters?
Seamless gutters are formed from one piece of metal on site, so they have no seams to leak along the run. Sectional gutters come in lengths that join with seams, and the seams are where they fail first.
Five-inch or six-inch?
Five-inch is the usual size. A big roof, a long valley or heavy tree cover can call for six-inch. We size it to the roof above it and write the size on your estimate.
Do you do gutters without a new roof?
Yes. Most of our calls are gutters alone: new runs, repairs, cleaning, downspouts and the board behind them.
Does a gutter cause an ice dam?
No. Ice dams come from heat escaping into the attic. A gutter only shows where the ice builds. The ice dam page explains the fixes.
Will my insurance cover it?
That's between you and your insurer, and you decide whether to file. We write an itemized estimate you can share with them. We are not public adjusters, and the deductible is yours to pay.
Get a written estimate
Tell us what the gutters are doing
Blia calls back the next working day to set a time. Answers from the gutter test help, and so does a photo.
Blia(715) 555-0102
Hours
- Monday – FridayToday
- 7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- SaturdayToday
- 8 a.m. – noon
- SundayToday
- Closed