Proper Maintenance Prevents Water Damage

Maintaining the gutters and the downspout of your home is one of the tasks that many property owners overlook. Unfortunately, these components of the water diversion system are critical to keeping your property from suffering damage or flooding, so it is vital to take steps to protect your home and its landscape from preventable harm. 

The Upkeep of Gutters and Downspouts

Caring for exterior components like gutters and downspouts protects your property in multiple ways, including preventing water damage restoration. While you always have the fast arrival and experienced mitigation solutions of our Lightspeed Restoration team to help, preventative care can allow you to avoid costly harm such as:

  • Roof Damage
  • Foundation Degradation 
  • Basement Flooding
  • Siding and Exterior Wall Damage
  • Landscape Erosion

Steps to Maintain this System 

  • Clean: A good cleaning is the most straightforward defense for your gutters. With a ladder, you can reach this high point and visually notice the buildup of debris in the channels. It is a good practice to pull out all the debris by hand or with a vacuum, then run water through the channel to make sure everything is flowing correctly.
  • Inspect: As undesirable as it might be, the best time to determine whether your gutters and water diversion system are functioning as they should be is when they are being tested. If you see water overflowing from the gutters or not exiting the downspout, a blockage or separation has occurred somewhere.
  • Check Alignment: Aging gutters and downspouts can loosen and pull away from each other at connection points, allowing water to flow unabated against the side of your home and your foundation. Inspect regularly to repair these separations when they are found.
  • Gutter Guards: Guards can be installed over the top of your gutter system to prevent leaves and other debris from entering the channel. These components also make cleaning more manageable!

Lightspeed Restoration Is a Trusted Recovery Partner

As diligent as homeowners hope to be, you might overlook an issue until it is too late. When your home has suffered basement flooding, siding damage, or other property degradation, you can count on the experienced, caring technicians of Lightspeed Restoration to help. Our expertise is water damage restoration and cleanup, including emergency repairs and reconstruction to rebuild a damaged gutter system, fix compromised building envelope components, and mitigate loss through extraction, drying, and mold prevention.

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A damaged gutter and downspout system can cause harm to your home after only a single storm. Don’t wait – contact your local Lightspeed Restoration team at (800) 620-4009.

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