Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repair in Larchmont, CA

Larchmont Gutter Solutionists

Gutters for Larchmont’s streetcar-era blocks

Larchmont covers about half a square mile, tucked between Melrose Avenue and Beverly Boulevard from Arden Boulevard east toward Wilton Place. It was called Glenwood until 1912, and by 1920 it had grown into a streetcar suburb, with the Los Angeles Railway’s R Line running up Larchmont Boulevard to Melrose. The shops most people know went up along the 100 and 200 blocks between 1921 and 1928, while the residential streets around them filled in with single-story bungalows, duplexes and small brick and stucco apartment buildings. About a third of the housing units in ZIP 90004 were built before 1940, so a lot of the fascia and downspouts we find here are original or close to it.

The trees are the other half of the story. Larchmont Boulevard is lined with ficus, and the Greater Wilshire street tree inventory ranks jacaranda, queen palm, Mexican fan palm, southern magnolia and London plane as the most common species in the area. That means purple bloom in late spring, palm fruit and fronds most of the year, magnolia leaves that never fully stop, and big plane leaves in the fall. Most of the rain arrives from December through March, and February is the wettest month at the Downtown USC station. On small lots with tight side yards and shared driveways, an overflowing gutter usually dumps right onto a walkway or a neighbor’s wall.

Robinson O’Brien-Bours owns The Brothers That Just Do Gutters Los Angeles and runs it from our base on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, a short drive up the road. Our crews already work Windsor Square and Hancock Park, so Larchmont’s blocks are familiar ground. We form seamless gutters on-site, clean by hand, replace tired fascia, reroute downspouts away from shared walls and fit BroGuard where the canopy is heavy. California contractor license 1140218 covers every job, and we are bonded and insured.