Seamless or sectional?
Sectional gutter is joined every few feet and every joint is a future leak. Seamless is rolled to the length of the run on site. It's the single biggest difference in how long a gutter stays watertight.
GUTTERSMISSOURI SIDE OF ST. LOUIS
Water off
the roof, away
from the house.
Seamless gutters and downspouts, sized and pitched to actually move Missouri rain away from your foundation. Scoped alongside your roof, or on their own — and available on their own if the roof is fine.
Seamless, sized to the roof · Missouri side of St. Louis
With a replacement
One estimate, one crew
Type
Seamless, rolled on site
Standalone work
Yes
The price
In writing, up front
01WHY THEY MATTER
The last stage
of the water system.
A roof’s whole job is moving water. The gutters are the last handoff in that chain, and they are the part homeowners think about least — usually right up until water is running down the siding or standing against the foundation.
Which is the honest reason to scope them together with a replacement. Putting a new roof over gutters that can’t keep up with it is finishing three quarters of the job.
Doing the roof and the gutters at the same time also means the drip edge, the fascia and the gutter line get set up together — see what a replacement includes.
- 01
Measure the runs
Every run of eave, every corner, and where the downspouts can sensibly drop without dumping water somewhere new.
- 02
Roll them seamless
Formed to length on site from a single coil, so the only joints are at corners and outlets instead of every few feet.
- 03
Hang and pitch
Fastened to sound fascia and pitched toward the outlets, so the water actually leaves rather than sitting in the trough.
- 04
Get it away from the house
Downspouts and extensions placed so the water is discharged clear of the foundation, not into the flowerbed against it.
02WHAT TO ASK ANY GUTTER CONTRACTOR
Three questions
worth asking.
How is the fascia?
Gutter is only as sound as the board it hangs on. If the fascia behind the old gutter has gone soft, that needs saying out loud before new gutter goes over it — not discovered afterwards.
Where does the water go?
New gutter that discharges two feet from the foundation has moved the problem, not solved it. Ask where the downspouts land and how far the water gets from the house.
03STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Gutter
questions.
Yes. New gutters come with a roof replacement from Sobczak Exteriors. It isn't an upsell brought out at the table after you've already agreed to the roof.
Seamless gutter is rolled to length on site from a single coil, so the only joints on a run are at the corners and the outlets. Sectional gutter is joined every few feet, and every one of those joints is a place that can eventually leak.
A gutter has to carry the water a roof sheds in a heavy Missouri downpour, and it has to fall enough toward the downspouts to actually drain. Undersized or badly pitched gutter overflows in exactly the storm you needed it for, and that water goes straight down against the foundation.
Yes — gutters and downspouts on their own are fine. Call and it gets priced the same way as everything else: measured at the house, written down.
04NEXT STEP
Get the gutters sorted.
Free estimate, written price — and if you’re replacing the roof, the gutters get scoped in the same visit.