Gutters

In most of the East Valley, gutters aren't decorative — they're functional. Even though we go months without rain, when monsoon storms hit they can drop a significant amount of water in a very short time, and without gutters that water flows directly off your roofline and pools against your foundation, erodes landscaping, and can work its way into garage entries or back doors. On tile roofs especially, the overhang can channel water in concentrated streams rather than a wide sheet, which makes targeted drainage even more important. Trevor can look at your specific roofline and drainage situation and give you an honest read on whether gutters will actually help or if something else is going on.

It depends on the age of the gutters, how many seams are failing, and whether the fascia behind them is still solid. Older sectional gutters with multiple failing joints are often better replaced with seamless aluminum because resealing five or six seams that will just fail again in another Arizona summer isn't a good use of your money. But if it's one bad joint on an otherwise sound system, a targeted repair makes sense. Day One comes out, looks at the whole picture, and tells you honestly which path makes more sense for your situation — no pressure either direction.

On a tile roof, the installer needs to understand how the tile lays at the eave and where water actually exits before it reaches the gutter. Improper hanger placement or gutter height relative to the tile can cause water to skip over the gutter entirely, which defeats the whole point. Trevor inspects the eave detail on your specific tile profile before anything goes up, checks the fascia board condition (tile roofs can hide fascia rot for years), and sizes the gutter correctly for your roof's square footage and pitch. The goal is a system that catches what the tile sheds, not one that looks right from the street but misses half the flow.

Fascia rot is extremely common in the East Valley on homes where gutters have been leaking or overflowing for even one or two monsoon seasons. From the ground it can look completely fine — the rot is usually on the back face of the board where the gutter bracket contacts it. When Trevor inspects for gutter repair in Gilbert or a new installation anywhere in the service area, he checks the fascia specifically before quoting, and if a board needs to come out he'll tell you upfront and show you the evidence in photos. Installing new gutters over rotted fascia just means the whole thing pulls away within a season or two.

Trevor can share a real data point — a recent walkway-and-gutter job ran $280 — but he won't give you a firm number before seeing your home because the variables matter too much to quote honestly without looking. Fascia condition, linear footage, downspout placement, roof access complexity, and whether any underlying issues need to be addressed first all affect the actual cost. A phone number that turns out to be wrong in either direction doesn't help you plan. The in-person visit is fast, it's free, and it's the only way to give you a quote you can actually rely on.

Day One Roofing serves Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, San Tan Valley, Queen Creek, Phoenix, and Scottsdale. If you're in the East Valley and you're not sure whether your address falls in the service area, just call (480) 718-6204 Monday through Saturday between 8 AM and 6 PM — Trevor answers directly and can confirm in about thirty seconds. Homeowners further out in San Tan Valley and Queen Creek deal with the same monsoon intensity and tile-roof conditions as anywhere else in the Valley, so the same inspection-first approach applies.