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RE: vinyl or aluminum gutters - Tapper - 09-18-2018 (09-18-2018, 08:05 AM)Cooler Wrote: I live in an alternate universe. Haven't been through a winter with these gutters yet, so don't know whether snow and ice will damage them or not. I live in the woods so I don't know what other kind of damage they could get, failing a tree falling on the house. Anything can happen I suppose. Doug RE: vinyl or aluminum gutters - Cooler - 09-18-2018 (09-18-2018, 11:06 AM)Tapper Wrote: Haven't been through a winter with these gutters yet, so don't know whether snow and ice will damage them or not. I live in the woods so I don't know what other kind of damage they could get, failing a tree falling on the house. Anything can happen I suppose.In the 1970s I worked for a prime manufacture of gutters and downspouts. We sold to large lumberyards all over the country. We sold three grades, the grade difference being the thickness of the material, ranging from 24 gauge (0.020") to 22 gauge (0.026") to 20 gauge (0.032"). Obviously, if you could afford it, you would buy the 20 gauge stuff. (Downspout came in one grade only.) The stuff the contractor put up was 24 gauge. But since the gauge allows ± 0.002", it actually measures 0.019". It's thicker than aluminum foil, but far from what you would want to put on your house. The Home Depot did not call out the gauge, and I did not measure it. I measured the old gutter when I cut it down. Very flimsy. I have a short piece left over from the Home Depot gutter, and I will measure it when I get home (or tomorrow since it is raining the remnants of Florence up here now). |