Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repair in Van Nuys, CA

Local Gutter Solutionists

Gutter service for Van Nuys ranch homes and post-war tracts

Van Nuys is post-war Valley in its purest form. Most of the housing went up between 1945 and 1965, single-story ranches on wide flat lots with long roof faces and the original 5-inch K-style gutter still hanging off the fascia. Those systems were sized for a different roof and a different rainfall pattern, and seventy years of sun has done what seventy years of sun does to painted steel and thin aluminum.

The trees are the other half of the story. Mature ficus, mulberry, magnolia and Mexican fan palm line these blocks, and between the small leaves, the seed pods and the fronds, a Van Nuys gutter fills faster than the schedule most homeowners keep. Up on Kester Ridge the older lots carry the biggest canopy and the worst of it.

When rain comes here it comes hard and short. A flat lot with a backed-up gutter has nowhere to send the overflow except down the stucco and into the slab, and the streets backing the Sepulveda Basin already sit low. We form seamless aluminum on-site, size the downspouts to the actual roof, and route the water out past the foundation instead of letting it pool at the wall.