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Rain gutters for spanish tile roofs9/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Water will start to overshoot other products, but HydroVortex overcomes the natural way water wants to remain moving forward it allows water to be pulled into your gutters even if placed straight up and down.Īnd during the winter months, you’ll get the benefit of a gutter system that can be heated to help avoid issues with ice dams and icicles. This makes airflow coming down your roof work to your benefit to keep debris reacting as if you didn’t have gutters at all.Īdd to this our HydroVortex Technology, which was developed so that your gutter protection could be installed on an angle. You also get a system installed as close as the installer can get to the existing pitch of your roof. This can include wavy fascia boards, warped subroofs and the intentional drop in your gutters from their highest point to the lowest point at the downspout. MasterShield easily conforms to all the imperfections often found near your gutters. If you'd be staying longer than that, it might be worth it but you'll have to work those numbers with your best guess on future energy costs.With MasterShield, you get the benefit of a thin yet very strong aluminum frame. If you've noise issues (a nearby road or a neighbor dog) you might want to change them out to get the acoustic benefits and you can work the numbers but I doubt you'll save much on thermal benefits vs electric use over at least a 10 year period by paying to change them out now. If you've a high end house with single pane windows built in 2003, I'd look for where else the builder cut some corners. The only gutters I bother with have nothing to do with drainage but simply are over the entryways so you don't get drenched with roof water there.Ī concrete tile roof is as good as the paper under it and as long as it doesn't crack by flying debris or fallen limb. So, again, minimal damage over a period of 50 years of neglect. Seamless gutters afford your home the extra protection it so desperately needs. That was directly under a roofline where rainwater falling over the years had dug out a small trench at grade level, maybe two inches deep so there'd been some minor pooling for short periods, I'd imagine less than five minutes after a heavy rain it was gone. Our roofing team in Medford installs all of the critical roof components. There I found only two minor spots with some deterioration to the concrete footer/slab on grade. When I painted the exterior of this fifty year old place I dug about a foot all the way around to bring the paint below grade and check for roots (found two to clear away). I would think the main issues with getting water away from a house would be poor drainage or keeping a basement dry, neither of which are usually Florida issues. Those tiles tend to dislodge in high wind events. They would be more leak resistant than a conventional roof. They can easily be replaced with better windows.Ĭoncrete tile roofs should last longer than a conventional roof. Double pane hurricane resistant windowsĬan be added on at the home buyers cost. Single pane windows are standard when a house is built. The water collecting in a straight line that falls from a roof get absorbed by the sandy soil pretty quickly.įrench drains can be made along that fall line to get the water out of there faster.Ĭollecting some of that rainwater in cisterns or barrels allows the water to be used instead of wasted. ![]() There are no basements so the water does not pose a problem. ![]() The end of the downspouts have to extend away from the building if the idea is to keep the area around ![]() Gutters and downspouts need to be pretty big in FL to be efficient. My feeling is that someone could make a good guess on the linear feet given that it's a single level with 3000 sqft of living space. Has anyone here ever added gutters to a house this size? I am not sure on the linear feet, but would love an idea. Is it in fact normal in Tampa to not have gutters at all, or not on tile roofs? Is it in fact normal in Tampa to have single pane windows? It was built in 2003, and is in a high end neighborhood in 33626. Concrete and clay tile roofing systems are durable. The house is a single level, and about 3000 sqft + a 3 car garage. Clogged rain gutters can cause water to flow back under the shingles on the eaves and cause damage. That said, I noticed that in a good rain, water flys down the roof and pools heavily all around the house. My inspector said that not having gutters, just like having single pane windows is not that uncommon in Tampa. The challenge is that the home does not have gutters. I am relocating to Tampa, and have settled on a house that has a tile roof. ![]()
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