DMR's The Yocums Copper Gutter Work Photopage

Here is a copper gutter replacement we did for the Dale Yocum family. This house is just above the Metro Zoo. The copper gutters were completed in August of 2002.

This is the same house a couple years later when I was called in to do some other sheet metal work for them. It shows the new landscaping and tarnished copper gutters.

They had just started moving into their new house when I was replacing the gutters. They were having a good deal of remodeling done. The house needed re-painted and the roofing needed replaced. The old copper gutters were not mounted well. Because of the way the fascia boards were the gutters were hung from straps nailed on the roofing, to let the gutters just dangle. This is no good, since you cannot prop a ladder against them, and they hang half under the roof edge, leaving too small of a gap to get your hand in to clean then out, so they had to go.

With the 3 layer tear off of the old roof, it was inevitable that the gutters would get thrashed, so the Home-owner had found our web site using a search engine, and asked us to give them a bid for this custom fascia work to mount the gutters properly, and for new gutters. The work to build out the fascia boards to be able to properly mount the gutters onto cost was $2,200.

The new 16oz solid copper gutters ran $6,912.

The No-clog options added $2,085.

They also had us do another $2,300 in other copper, aluminum. wood, plastics, and masonry work, for a total of $13,497 in all. It took us well over a month of full time work to complete all this

This was a big house with over twice the normal amount of gutters. It was getting re-painted and re-roofed around the same time, so there was some scaffolding around parts of the house. I took most of these photos after the scaffolding had been removed.

In the photo above you can see the rear patio double doorway that Dale had me build a copper covered roof. I had to cut into this nice siding to work the new roof flashing in. The scaffolding was helpful. Especially in the back to work on the high fascia boards and gutters. I also had to make a custom flashing for over the windows where a normal gutter cannot be mounted. The carpenters should have made a small a frame roof in this area to divert the rain water to either side.

After installing this gutter shown below I realized I had messed up the alignment of the outlet some how. I had to rebuild this gutter, so the downspout will be lined up correctly. I guess I cannot be right on all the time.

As you see in the next photo I made the proper correction. Below shows the same back side then and a few years later:

Below you can see the mildew staining over the bricks from overflowing gutters over the years. This copper roof over the back garage door was already there, but it had no gutters. I consolidated the downspout of the upper gutter into this one. It shown is the larger downspout parts, and the reducer as well. It also shows one of our custom Leaf-catchers in copper.

Here is the back side behind the garage with some very unusual custom angles to form to meet flush with the roof. Below shows the same back side a few years later:

Below shows the special mitered endcaps we are famous for from several different angles. They take as much work as to form and seal a standard right angle corner. Far more tricky than the standard press-on flat endcaps.

These show the deluxe hinged solid copper leaf screens with the stainless steel hinge/clips as part of the No-clog options. They do sit on top of the roofing shingles, or the hinge feature would be irrelevant. This also minimizes the debris that would pile over the screens if they were to lay flat inside the gutter. That debris will better slide off and be blown off in the wind, once it dries.

This shows before and after photos of the back of the house installing the copper gutters and the curved copper roof over the back door.

This is the back side of the same house. They had scaffolding up all across the back side here for the roofers as a safety measure.

The old scupper above had worn holes through the side from the wear of the rain water and the soldered seams we cracking apart even though it had not suffered an impact, so on my own initiative I installed a copper liner in the new scupper for a smooth funneling into the bottom outlet.

All our bids show the No-clog options itemized, so you can pick and choose what you are needing, but few of our customers do not go with all the No-clog options for our 15 year trouble free warranty.

Here shows some small copper scuppers the client had already sent away for and needed me to mount with our gutter system. It also shows a tricky 45 degree corner of the copper gutter.

Here is some other window wells that he had me cover with large sheets of brown painted aluminum sheet metal to darken his media room in the basement. I needed to rebuild the rotten wood frame as well.

Here is an outside window sill that I was called back to cover with some white painted aluminum sheet metal custom formed to seal out the rain better than any house paint could.

Here you can see the dry-rot I scraped out to fill in before covering up.