How To Attach Rain Gutter Lengths Together

Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section.

How to attach rain gutter lengths together.

The first gutter piece and maybe the second and even a third piece will likely be full 10 ft. Cut it if necessary with a hacksaw or tin snips. Allow for about 1 1 2 inches of overlap at each connection. Put the best looking gutter edge or the gutter with the factory cut on the outside.

See gutter rain barrel video above for demonstration. Measure the total run of the gutter length you need. Attach the gutters to the fascia. Snap the sections together.

Attach a short length of downspout to the underside of the diverter. If you have a straight run gable roof measure from shingle to shingle and then add. How to connect two sections of gutters. Piece two pieces of guttering together by overlapping ethe nds 8.

Measure a length of guttering long enough for the wall where you are hanging it. Be sure to do this once along every 2 foot 0 61 m length along the gutter. Project step by step 20 cutting the gutter. Connect the diverter s flexible hose to the port on the side of the rain barrel.

It s much easier to join sections on the ground than to work from the top of a ladder. Connect the two sections of gutter overlapping the middle sections by 4 inches. Install a diverter in the downspout positioning it even with the top of the rain barrel. This is our first video in our tutorial on metal roofing.