Gutter repair and replacement in Dublin, Ohio

Gutters in Dublin

Dublin grew from a village of 700 to a city of 50,000 between 1970 and 2020, and the housing shows it in layers. Muirfield Village and the streets around the golf course are 1975–1995 homes with cedar or brick, big hip roofs and a lot of inside corners. Llewellyn Farms, Wedgewood, Waterford Village and the neighborhoods along Brand Road are 1985–2000 two-stories. Tartan Fields, Ballantrae and Tartan West are 2000s builds with 3,000-plus square feet of roof. Riverside Drive and the older parts near Historic Dublin have 1950s–70s ranches and colonials under mature trees.

What they have in common is roof area. A two-story in Tartan Fields can put 1,100 square feet of roof onto one back run, and the builder gave that run a single 2x3 downspout at one end. The other end overflows in every July storm, and in winter the run fills with ice from end to end. Gutter repair Dublin Ohio homeowners call about is often exactly that — add a downspout, upsize to 3x4, re-hang the run — and gutter replacement is the same house ten years later when the seams have all let go.

The Dublin replacement

The most common job we do here is a 1990s two-story in Llewellyn Farms or along Avery Road with white sectional aluminum, seams every ten feet, spike hangers backed out on the north side, and 2x3 downspouts. We take it down, replace any soft fascia at the corners (usually one or two boards), and run new seamless 6-inch aluminum on the long back run and 5-inch elsewhere, all with 3x4 downspouts and hidden hangers, in one day. On a typical 220-foot Dublin two-story that's $2,300–$3,400. The cost page breaks it down and the replacement page covers what's included.

Muirfield and the hip-roof problem

Muirfield Village homes have a lot of hip roofs, and hip roofs have corners — eight or ten miters on a house that a gable roof would do with four. Every miter is a sealed joint that freeze-thaw works on. If a Muirfield house is dripping at three corners, we reseal; if it's dripping at eight, we're talking about the whole system. The HOA's design standards also cover exterior colors, and we carry the manufacturer's color chart so a replacement matches the existing trim without a committee visit.

Basements on Dublin clay

Dublin sits on the same glacial clay as the rest of Franklin County, and the lots in Tartan Fields and Ballantrae were graded flat. A downspout ending at the foundation there is the cause of most of the wet-basement calls we get from Dublin. Extensions carrying water 6 feet out fix many of them; where the yard doesn't slope or the downspout lands on a patio, a buried drain line to a pop-up emitter is $250–$600 per downspout and ends the problem.

What we do here

• Gutter repair — corners, re-hangs after ice, downspouts, fascia
• Seamless replacement — 5- and 6-inch aluminum sized for big two-story roofs
• Gutter guards — micro-mesh under the mature maples and oaks along Riverside Drive and in Muirfield; often not yet worth it in Tartan West
• Gutter cleaning — late November and late May
• Downspout drain lines — for the wet corner on a flat lot

Nearby

We also cover Powell, Shawnee Hills, Plain City and the Columbus neighborhoods off Sawmill Road. Zip codes 43016, 43017 and 43065. Same crews, same written pricing as Columbus, no travel charge.