In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 16 Feb 2020 17:31:04 -0500, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 12:51:03 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:23:09 -0500, micky
wrote:


I need a new roof, or a repair of the old one

And one gutter has fallen down (for reasons I could explain) and bent a

Actually I know now. When a couple gutter spikes came loose, I replaced
all the ones on the right with gutter screws. And that half is still
fine. But because of a tree and the deck, I couldn't get the ladder on
the left half and didn't replace them.

Then I asked the previous roofer to do it, and he did but must have been
kneeling or lying on his belly at the edge of the roof. Because I
looked at the screws he put in and based on what is almost shiny because
it was in the wood, and what is not, he barely got the screws in the
wood. Each screw is different but the 3 or 4 I could see were not in
well. That's the side that fell down.

lot and is not resusable, but the downspout is good. In the front, the
last two feet are sagging and need one or two gutter screws.

So one roofer says he wants to replace the whole thing, at least in the
back, because they're rusting. I say, it's aluminum. He says the
screws are rusting. That would have to be the screws for the one
downspout, which show no visible signs of coming loose. I haven't
looked to see if the heads are rusty but I don't think he did either.

Even if he uses a different brand of gutter, there is no problem
connecting new gutter to an existing aluminum downspout, is there?

If an aluminum downspout lasted 40 years, any reason it can't last
another 40?
The labour to save and re-use the old stuff will go a long ways
towards replacing with new.

But wrt the gutters, there is no labor to save the downspouts. They're
right there where they've always been.