Before & After Photos

Heavy snows from this past winter built up on the seamed open-style plastic gutters on a home in St. Cloud. One seam busted on a section near the front door, leading to a noticeable leak out of the gutter as the snow melted. The homeowner was ready for an upgrade and started researching different options online. After coming across our website, he reached out to our office and set up an appointment for a free estimate of gutter replacement. Kevin Feldewerd, our lead Gutter Shutter of St. Cloud salesman, was able to visit the home to draw up a quote and plan. 

With very few trees nearby, the homeowner was sure he wanted to stick with a open-style gutter system. Kevin then drew up a proposal for our premium RainGuttersXL system. These seamless rain gutters aren't your average open-top gutters. Heavy gauge aluminum gives them unmatched strength and the squared trough design nearly doubles the amount of water it can hold. To ensure no water dripped off the side of the roof, we also added in a small deflector piece to redirect water right into the gutter. Beyond the replacement of a plastic downspout with our 3x4 aluminum, the addition of a wide mouth outlet instantly doubled the drainage capacity from the system, pushing it down into a long downspout extension that would send all of the water away from the house and into the lawn. 

While the improvement to this hail damaged open-style gutter system with Gutter Shutter in St. Cloud is clear, this installation showcases well the difference between common 2x3 downspout and our standard 3x4 downspouts. The wide mouth outlet attached to gutter will quadruple the drainage capacity from the trough, ensuring no backups or overflows. You can also see the use of our ledge jumper elbows in the lower section to get past the stone outcropping. Ledge jumpers help us maintain a consistently parallel downspout, which looks much better than the angling of the original downspout section. 

This seamless one-piece covered gutter system in St. Cloud, MN was damaged by a hailstorm over the summer. In conjunction with a roof replacement, Gutter Shutter was contacted to propose a replacement of the gutters with our similar two-piece covered seamless gutter system. While the systems may look and seem similar, there are a few key differences to point out:

• 50% larger trough size overall
• Visually appealing crown moulding design
• Wide mouth outlets for better downspout drainage
• Streamlined corner miters 
• High-volume perforated hood

Is Gutter Shutter the better fit for your home? Contact our office today to get your gutter system upgraded to our best gutter protection system!

Kenny M was having major water issues with the steep pitch of the roof. The water was washing away the dirt and soil from around his home. No more worries now as we have recently installed New open gutters to collect all the water and strategically placed downspouts to manage where that water is running 

A major addition to Chris's home south of St. Cloud, MN was naturally getting the full works of exterior improvement, but no gutters had been planned out to manage all the roof water and protect the fascia boards. We followed up with Chris based on an old quote and sent out a salesman to draw up a new estimate for gutters on the home with the addition. 

With the new addition, the planned gutter system would be a total of 148 feet of seamless Gutter Shutter spread across 7 separate sections. We would also need 157 feet of downspout to properly set up drainage for the entire system. Two spots would use a drop-in downspout connection to collect water from high gutters and send them into lower sections. As shown in the photo, this sets up a drainage point with 100% water capture that goes right down to a wide-mouth outlet for maximum capacity drainage! You can also note that our downspouts can be lined up on vinyl siding, stones, or whatever material your house uses.