Charlie: He’s in Point Blank, Texas, Richard is, and he says, “I need gutters.” His house has a shed-type roof. And I don’t know exactly what that would mean. Do you know what he means by that? A shed-type roof?
Tom: A shed room is … A gable roof has a peak, and then you have two planes coming off of it.
Charlie: Oh, a gambrel roof then.
Tom: No.
Charlie: Doesn’t that, when it comes down has like multiple things like that? No?
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Tom: No. gambrel’s a little different.
Charlie: Okay.
Tom: But a gable roof is just two straight lines. You have a gable roof on your home, and you have got some hips on there.
Charlie: You got that right.
Tom: No kidding, me too. But a shed roof is just one plane going from the top to the bottom where the wall’s really high on one side-
Charlie: Okay.
Tom: -than the other.
Charlie: Understood.
Tom: That’s the way it is.
Charlie: The other one is more of a barn roof that I was describing then. Okay.
Tom: Yeah. And it’s a type of roof. It’s just not that roof.
Charlie: Fascinating, but nothing to do with our question.
Tom: Yeah. It really isn’t.
Charlie: He says he has a shed-type roof. He wants to know, “What is your opinion on name-brand gutters?” He says he’s seen the ones, the leaf ones and all that. He wants to know is it worth it for the price. And I’m thinking Laurie’s system with the gutter helmet maybe one of the solutions he’s looking at.
Tom: Let’s address the gutters, first. The gutters in Houston have to take a lot of water sometimes in a short period of time. Sometimes our rains are just horrendous. Sometimes they’re just normal little rains, and it’s fine. But high-price gutters that are one-piece units don’t handle our downpours. And that’s a problem with any of the other, I don’t know about name brand, but I guess there’s some names out there, that they’re back to that question before. They are one size fits all. And it doesn’t happen for Houston.
So depending on how much water you have run off, you can do a six-inch gutter with large downspouts. You can do five-inch gutters with large downspouts. You can even do small downspouts depending how you’re running water and how many downspouts you can have. And that’s where Laurie’s going to come in and design the gutter just for the Houston area. And it’s a seamless gutter. It comes off the truck in one piece, and that’s the way you need to have it.
But if you have trees and leaves and all that stuff, you’re worried about cleaning, then her gutter cover, which is not part of the gutter at all, which is the beauty of it, it fits into the roof system and comes down over it. It just works so much better because it can work with any kind of designed gutter system you have as opposed to being just put in that one little box.