Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repair in Harvard Heights, CA

Harvard Heights Gutter Solutionists

Gutters that respect Harvard Heights’ Craftsman roofs

Harvard Heights went up fast. Most of its houses are two-story Craftsman homes built between 1902 and 1908, and in 2000 the City Council made 34 blocks of the neighborhood a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. The architects are part of the story. City Planning notes that the Lucy E. Wheeler house on Cambridge Street, designed in 1905, is the only Greene and Greene house still standing in Los Angeles, and the Heineman brothers and Frank Tyler both built here too. Those houses carry broad eaves, exposed rafter tails and long, low roof planes that send a lot of water to one edge.

Gutters here fight two things. The first is the canopy. The city street tree inventory for these blocks is led by Mexican and California fan palms, with jacaranda, pink trumpet trees, ficus, crape myrtle and southern magnolia mixed in, so something is dropping fronds, flowers or leaves in almost every month. The second is how the rain arrives. NOAA’s 1991 to 2020 normals for downtown Los Angeles count about 4.2 days a year with an inch or more of rain, and roughly four fifths of the annual total falls from December through March. A century-old gutter that only drips in a drizzle can let go completely on one of those days, and NOAA’s September 2026 El Niño advisory points to a wet winter.

Owner Robinson O’Brien-Bours runs The Brothers That Just Do Gutters Los Angeles, and the same LA crews that work West Adams handle Harvard Heights. On an HPOZ house we start with the wood: rotted fascia board gets replaced so the gutter has something solid to hold. Then we form seamless runs on-site in copper, bonderized steel or colored aluminum matched to your trim, and add BroGuard under the palms. Every estimate is free and in writing.