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Gutter Guides for New Mexico Homes

Straight answers on cost, sizing, flat roofs and getting ready for monsoon season.

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Gutters are priced by the linear foot plus downspouts and extras.

Gutter size is about how much water reaches each foot of gutter during the hardest rain of the year, not how big the house looks.

Plan on one downspout for every 30 to 40 feet of gutter, and at least one at each end of a long run.

Pitched roofs shed water along their whole edge into gutters.

National brands advertise heavily, and their designs differ in ways that matter here: pine needles, cottonwood fluff and hard monsoon bursts.

Ten minutes in June can save a stucco repair in August.

Drip edge is the thin metal strip at the roof edge that guides water into the gutter instead of behind it.

Flat roofs are everywhere in Albuquerque.