How to Protect Your Aluminum Gutters

In order to keep your home’s exterior safe from insidious water damage, your gutters must be well-maintained. While environmental and climatic factors play a big role in the wear and tear gutters are subjected to, there are ways to protect… Read More »

Cleaning Gutters Safely

Whether you’re planning on cleaning the gutters now while the weather is still somewhat predictable or waiting until the fall, it’s an important home maintenance task that will keep water flowing freely through your gutter system. Since falling off a… Read More »

Summer Roof Care Tips

Checking up on the roof while the weather is still nice is a great way to prepare for winter. Low-maintenance roofing materials such as asphalt roofing, metal roofing, and slate roofing need to be maintained regularly if you want it… Read More »

Aluminum Gutters or Copper Gutters – Which one is Best?

If you are buying a new home or are replacing your existing gutter system, you want the gutters to improve the appearance of your home’s exterior. Particularly when you’re in the process of upgrading, you might be looking at other… Read More »

Signs Your Gutters are Clogged

Especially now in the lower mainland where we haven’t had any rainfall in over a month, it’s easy to forget about the gutters. Gutters and downspouts are part of the roofing system that protects your home from the elements. Even… Read More »

7 Reasons Homeowners Choose Rain Chains

A rain chain is formed by links or cups linked together intended to slow the speed of rainwater as it flows down the chain. A perfect blend of functionality and beauty, replacing downspouts with rain chains have increased in popularity… Read More »

Ways to Avoid Failing Gutters

For many homeowners, gutters fly beneath their radar – as long as they’re working. But when something goes wrong with the gutter system, it becomes very noticeable pretty quickly. When they become cracked, leaky, or dented, gutters are ineffective and… Read More »

Should You Replace or Repair Your Front Porch?

Many older homes have a porch – front porch, wrap-around porch or back porch, just to name the top three types of porches. If you live in an older home or a heritage home with a porch that looks a… Read More »

Have a Safe Grilling Season this Summer

June is the month that welcomes the official start of summer. Barbecues get fired up; sprinklers water kids on a hot day; the pool is the place to be on a Saturday afternoon. If you are a backyard chef that… Read More »

Summer Gutter Problems to Watch Out For

While homeowners are right in thinking that winter is the season to be on the lookout for gutter problems, summer can take its toll on a gutter system in different ways. Regardless of an early spring gutter cleaning, clogged gutters… Read More »