This was the promise from Peter LaRoque of LaRoque Construction of Mocksville, NC, when he wrote up the bid that I accepted on the renovation and addition to my house. When he advised me after he'd begun the job that he was going to have to substitute cheap but similar gutters, my only stipulation was that they must function equally as well.
Alas, that is not exactly proving to be the case.
As I blogged about back in March, the debris shields are not functioning properly and serve as reservoirs and catchers of debris, and that leads to overflow and spillage. There was quite a washout from the corner juncture of the gutter directly above the heat pump units with last week's heavy rains, and the picture above shows you why this would be the case.
When changing floodlight bulbs not so very long ago, I also had a chance to see that the rain guard shields on the south side of the house were either not properly installed or they have not remained in place.
And the screen that was in that March blog is no longer sitting on top of the gutter; it fell through to the bottom of the gutter and now it's just a big ol' opening there.
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