Attaching Gutters To Rafter Tails

Often the owner of a home at one time or another has a gutter company remove the original wooden gutters and install aluminum gutters.

Attaching gutters to rafter tails.

Attach the gutter brackets on every other rafter tail. Rafter design done right rafter tails cut from true 2x material also can have a tapered bottom edge which adds a subtle suggestion of the craftsman s hand and a more modern appearance to the house. How to attach guttering to existing fascia 1. Attach fascia brackets photo by mary beth montgomery.

Bore a inch diameter pilot hole through the fascia and into the rafter tail at each mark. Locate each rafter tail usually spaced every 16 inches 40 6 cm apart by looking for their signature nail heads. I need to put continuos gutters on a 12 4. Here are some tips for how to do this.

Virtually every house built in the era of yours has gutters hanging from the rafter tails. Rafter design done right the most basic traditional rafter tail has a simple plumb cut at the end of true 2x lumber with the benefit of offering a robust surface for attaching a gutter. The most common method of fastening them to the top of a beam is to drive in screws at an angle. Square cut rafter tails 2x6 facia no soffit.

They re typically spaced 16 inches on center look for telltale nail heads. Two thoughts i am thinking of making a triangle trim to nail onto the entire facia about 1 2 up from the bottom to make the gutter plumb or just nailing some square stock where the bottom of the gutter will land. There are various ways of attaching rafters to a beam. Drill a 1 8 inch 0 32 cm pilot hole through the fascia down to rafter tails.

If a soffit conceals the rafters look for tell tale. You may apply soap for making it easier for penetrating the fascia. They would notch the top of. To do this the notch in the tail is cut plumb because the size of modern aluminum gutters has a greater depth than original wood gutters and doesn t fit in the notch.

When building a patio roof it can be tricky to build the post and beam structures that support the rafters. Chalk a line along the length of the fascia board starting at the top the non downspout end 1 1 4 inches. Find the location of the rafter tails behind the fascia board. Check the fascia for rot and make repairs if necessary before installing the gutters.

Attach the gutter s fascia brackets to the rafter tails. Attaching rafters beams. Locate the rafter tails behind the fascia. The typical ones back then were cedar i ve repaired ones up to 40 ft long.