Restore Gutter Slope With Epoxy

Holes spaced about 1 in.

Restore gutter slope with epoxy.

Once the gutter is properly pitched re install the gutter brackets. By volume epoxy fillers are more expensive than most woods so consider the value of making repairs with epoxy versus new wood. Ask someone to hold the gutter while you loosen and remove the gutter brackets or hangers. Drill the holes as deep as possible without going all the way through the wood.

Tighten the gutter brackets to hold the gutter in the new position. Fixing decayed rotted wood using an epoxy penetrant and filler. Check your work by running a garden hose in the gutter. This old house general contractor tom silva shows how to maintain aluminum gutters and downspouts.

But a large epoxy repair is unnecessary for a common building component. The gutter should have a quarter inch of slope per 10 feet. Sure a repair project can resort to both epoxy use and traditional patching in kind. Water should flow away immediately and completely.

Place the gutter back against the fascia and line it up with the chalk line. On vertical surfaces slope the holes slightly downward to form pockets for the consolidant. Drill a series of 1 4 in. Pull the gutter down about 3 quarters of an inch lower than it originally was.

When you come across rotted wood in your old house projects instead of replacing the damaged wood you also can repair it with specialty epoxy penetrants also called consolidants and fillers to make repairs. Apart to allow epoxy consolidant to soak into any water damaged wood surrounding the repair.