Your gutter system is your first and most critical line of defense against water damage. Not only is it a primary part of your house’s drainage system, but it’s also essential for protecting your roof, basement, foundation, and landscape from water collection issues. The purpose of your gutter system is to ensure that water from…
Connecting your gutter to underground drains can be a double-edged sword. If properly installed and maintained, this connection can result in seamless water transference. Whereas, leaving the pipes clogged or broken can cause serious structural damage to your home. To begin identifying the damaged pipe, you’ll need to be familiar with where the drains are…
Downspouts serve to protect your house and landscape from water-related damage. These structures are designed to route rainwater from the gutter into drains away from your home’s perimeter and foundation. One of the most common downspout issues is coming loose. If your downspout keeps falling off, it puts your property at risk of basement flooding,…
Early mornings are great for hearing birds chirping, but not when you haven’t slept through the night because of insistent pecking. Pecking alone is a noise that may or may not be tolerable and eventually, it’s just noise. However, if that bird is a woodpecker, it can bring cosmetic damage to your house. Sadly, they…
While underground downspouts are less of an eye-sore than other lawn draining options, it can be tricky tracing the pipe’s end if you weren’t there when it was installed. So, where do underground downspouts go? In most cases, buried downspouts systems resurface to drain up ground somewhere away (1-3 feet) from the house foundations. It…
Without gutters, your roof can get flooded with rainwater, which eventually damages your house foundations. Season after season, your gutters become clogged with leaves, dust, and any other objects that might get accidentally clogged in the guttering, which affects the way the guttering works. As a result, your gutters will no longer be able to…
Gutters are great for collecting rainwater to prevent it from flowing directly down your lawn or yard. This water flows down through a downspout and disperses on the ground. However, you may notice that the water pools in one area if you have a faulty downspout system. In other words, you may not have an…
Believe us when we say that we know how relaxing time in the yard isn’t so relaxing when wasps are buzzing around. They tell you to stay still when there’s a wasp nearby, but it always turns into a marathon when a wasp decides to show up! What’s even more inconvenient is discovering wasps nesting…
After it rains cats and dogs in your neighborhood, you may hear a distinct vibrating noise. So, you investigate a little further and find it’s coming from your downspout. But why is your downspout vibrating? There are a few different reasons your downspout may be vibrating. The most common cause is installation errors. These can…
It’s wonderful that we have downspouts to protect our homes from heavy rains. But why does it have to come at the expense of destroying the lawn? There are multiple stories about downspout killing grass. Which are all true, downspouts can damage your lawn, but only if the discharge is improperly managed. Generally speaking, maintaining…