Water Spills Over Gutters

Holes through the splash guard and the gutter.

Water spills over gutters.

In roof valleys rain water will travel faster especially during a heavy storm or if the gutters are already full and the water will skip over the gutter and right onto whatever or whomever is unlucky enough to be beneath it. What to do when water spills over gutter. Once you ve cleaned out the mess always wash out the gutter and downspouts with a garden hose to flush out the remaining dirt. If gutters slope too severely they don t hold water and water could splash over the sides in heavy rain.

This creates a problem where water backs up and creates a funnel effect effectively making it so that water cannot get down the downspout fast enough so it backs up in the downspout and spills over the gutter. Damaged or discolored siding rotted fascia boards on. The gutters are designed to channel runoff water toward your downspouts but if something prevents that from happening the water will simply run from the roof and then spill over the sides of your gutters. Drill rivet holes for the gutter splash guard.

Thankfully there s a fix for this and it s called a gutter splash guard. 2 install splash and mesh guards on your gutters. If you have a steeply pitched roof the water may be traveling so fast it splashed over the gutter. The gutter slope also called the pitch is the amount the gutter tilts down to let rainwater flow out of it.

When that water comes blasting out the end of the valley it can shoot right over the gutter. Some roofs have long sections of valley that carry a lot of rainwater at high velocity. The amount of collected water increases until it spills over the sides of the gutter. You can find these precut gutter splash guards about 3 in brown and white aluminum at a home center but you could easily make your own out of aluminum or sheet metal and spray paint them to match your gutters.

A diverter will help direct the water back into the gutter where it belongs. If gutters don t slope water gathers in them. I recommend gutter covers if you have a steep pitched roof and you get a water flow gutter covers. To sum it up gutter diverters can help with overflowing water in gutters only on inside or outside gutter corners.