Ron Hardin wrote in
:

My gutter is coming down at one end - three consecutive nails have
worked themselves out over 40 years, I guess.

I climbed up there to hammer them back in, but they show almost no
resistance to hammering - you could just push them back in the holes
by hand.

Obviously they will not stay.

Are there various diameter gutter nails, and I just have to go up one
size?

Wrap them in something like friction tape and them hammer them back?

Glue of some sort to encourage them to stay put?

What's the drill for this?


I just put up a 20 ft section of gutter today. I tried the gutter screws
others spoke of:

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...047&lpage=none

They worked awesome. Square drive head and the box of 10 includes 7"
screws, ferrules and a driver bit. Drove it with an 18v drill.

And now, as mentioned, the fascia board can't be rotten or any wood
behind that. The screws are supposed to be put in the ends of the
trusses/rafters (most likely 24" apart) for full contact penetration. If
you miss it it will just go through the 3/4" fascia board into open
air...

unless...

your rafters/trusses have a rafter cap on them. If that's the case then
all along the fascia board you have a 2xN. Still, try to hit the rafter
end.