Gutters, Soffit and Fascia in Salt Lake City, UT

Local context

Gutters, Soffit and Fascia in Salt Lake City— what's different here.

Salt Lake City sits in the Salt Lake County part of the metro, where spring hail, high-altitude UV, and winter snow load and ice dams shape every roof. Homes here run to 1930s-to-60s bungalows and ranches in the central neighborhoods, 1970s-to-90s subdivisions farther out, and bench homes with tile and metal in Millcreek and Sandy, and permits run through each city, HOA design review applies in many newer neighborhoods and on the east bench, and a repair is quoted first whenever one will do.

Salt Lake City has the oldest housing stock on the Wasatch Front. The Avenues, Federal Heights, Liberty Wells, Sugar House and Yalecrest are 1900s-to-1950s bungalows, Victorians and Tudors that have been re-roofed more than once, usually with chimney flashing, valleys and low-slope porch roofs that deserve a careful repair before anyone talks about a tear-off. Rose Park, Glendale and the west side are 1940s-to-60s ramblers on their second or third shingle. Several neighborhoods sit inside historic districts where the city's review can have a say in materials, and steep-pitch and flat-roof details come up more here than anywhere else in the valley. Snow load, ice dams on north-facing eaves and the high-altitude sun do the slow damage; canyon winds do the fast damage. Permits run through Salt Lake City, and Duane handles the paperwork with the bid.

Live oaks in the central neighborhoods clog open gutters with tassels every spring, and Salt Lake City rain arrives in bursts that overwhelm undersized runs. We size seamless gutters and downspouts for the roof that feeds them and add guards where the trees demand it.

What it looks like in practice:

• Sized for the roof that feeds them
• Hung on hangers that hold under snow load
• Fascia and soffit repaired before the gutter goes on
• Installed by the same crew as your roof