7 Inch Gutters in the Tri-Valley & East Bay

Commercial buildings, barns and very large residential roofs where even a 6 inch gutter would overflow. They also make sense where several gutters feed into one, and on tile, concrete shingle or Spanish-style roofs that may require a wider trough. A Solutionist measures the roof area before recommending the jump.

For most homes, yes. A 5 or 6 inch gutter handles the typical roof. But on a large home with big roof planes draining to a few downspouts, or a Spanish-style tile roof, 7 inch can be the size that keeps up when a winter storm settles over the East Bay.

Yes. A bigger trough is only as good as its outlets, so 7 inch gutters get oversized downspouts, and often more of them. The number and size of outlets are calculated from the roof area feeding each run rather than taken from whatever was on the truck.

Yes. The San Ramon team forms 7 inch runs on site just like the smaller sizes, so a long commercial wall can get one continuous piece instead of sections joined every twenty feet. Fewer seams means fewer future leaks.

Often. Tile, concrete shingle and Spanish-style roofs are on the list of roofs that may require a wider gutter to catch everything coming off the edge. The estimate checks how your roof edge sits over the gutter and how much roof area feeds it before a size is chosen.

If a clean 6 inch gutter still sheets water over the front edge along the whole run in a hard rain, it is a capacity problem, not a clog. Staining down the wall below the gutter line is the other giveaway. The fix may be 7 inch gutters, or simply more downspouts in the right places.