Gutter Replacement in Minneapolis
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If your gutters are pulling away from the house, overflowing after every storm, rusting through at the seams, or leaking at the corners, simply cleaning them really won't help.
The Kingdom Builders replaces failing gutter systems across the greater Minneapolis metro. We tear out the old system, address whatever caused it to fail (which is frequently rotted fascia), and install a seamless aluminum system sized correctly for your roof.
We'll also tell you if you don't need a full replacement. Some problems are genuinely repairable. Our estimators aren't paid to sell you a system you don't need.
Signs Your Gutters Need to Be Replaced
Sagging or Pulling Away From the House
This is the most common failure we see on homes. Typically, there are two causes:
Ice dams. When ice builds up in the gutter and back onto the roof, the weight and outward pressure are enormous. Screw heads snap off, brackets unhook, and entire sections pull away from the fascia. If your gutters came through last winter looking different than they did in the fall, ice load is almost certainly why.
Rotted fascia. The other cause is that there's nothing solid left to hold the gutter up. Water that's been getting behind the gutter (usually because the original installer skipped the flashing) soaks the wood fascia until it can no longer hold a screw. This can become a foundation issue.
Leaking Corners and Seams
Inside miter corners are the number-one leak point in a gutter system and the most common warranty callback in the industry. If your corners are dripping, the caulk has failed. On an older system with multiple failing joints, replacement with a seamless system eliminates the joints entirely rather than re-caulking your way through the same problem every couple of years.
Standing Water in the Trough
Water sitting in your gutter means it isn't pitched correctly. A little standing water isn't an emergency, but a gutter carrying a persistent load of water is putting continuous weight on brackets, screws, and fascia. It also tends to breed mosquitoes.
Rust and Corrosion
Older Twin Cities homes frequently have galvanized steel gutters, and steel rusts. In our experience, steel gutter systems in this climate start showing real corrosion problems at around the 10-to-15-year mark. Once rust perforates the trough or the seams, coating and patching will just buy you time and is not a real fix. Since aluminum does not, this can be a good alternative to a steel system if you are willing to switch materials.
Constant Water Overflow
If your gutters overflow even after you clean them, it's usually one of two things: the system is undersized for the roof area draining into it, or there aren't enough downspouts to discharge the volume. Both are design problems, and both get solved by replacement with a properly sized system.
Visible Dents and Hail Damage
Aluminum dents easily, and a hailstorm that damages your shingles almost certainly damaged your gutters at the same time. More on the insurance side of this below.
Fascia and Soffit Rot
If you can see soft, discolored, or crumbling wood behind or below your gutters, water has been getting back there for a while. This is the most expensive scenario on the list. Fascia and soffit replacement on an average home runs $3,000–$5,000.
Repair or Replace?
This question comes up all the time, and the answer depends on what is wrong with the gutter system.
Likely a repair situation
- A single section has come loose but the fascia behind it is sound
- One or two miters are leaking on an otherwise healthy system
- A downspout has separated or a single elbow is leaking
- The system is aluminum, correctly sized, and reasonably young
Likely a replace situation
- The gutters are steel and rusting through
- Multiple sections are sagging or have detached
- The system overflows even when clean, meaning it's undersized
- Seams and miters are leaking in more than one or two places
- There's no flashing behind the gutters and the fascia has begun to rot
- The system is old enough that you'd be repairing the same run again in two years
Basic Test You Can Use
The practical test we use: if you're going to be back up on a ladder addressing the same system within a couple of seasons, replacement is cheaper than the repairs plus the water damage in between.
We do repairs!
What Gutter Replacement Involves
1. Inspection and Diagnosis
We come out and look at what failed and why. That includes checking the condition of the fascia behind the gutter, because if the wood is rotted, you need to know before you commit.
2. Tear-Off and Disposal
We remove the existing system and haul it away. On steel systems, this is heavier and messier work than most people expect.
3. Fascia Assessment
With the old gutters off, we can see the fascia clearly. If it's sound, we proceed. If it's rotted, we'll walk you through options.
4. Correct Re-Sizing
If the original system was undersized (and on homes with chronic overflow, it usually is), we size the new system to the actual roof area and valley configuration. Any run collecting more than roughly 900 square feet of roof gets 6-inch gutters, which move 40–50% more water than 5-inch gutters.
5. Seamless Installation With Proper Flashing
New gutters are formed on-site to the exact length of each run, pitched with a torpedo level, hung on brackets every 16–24 inches. We also add flashing at the roof edge so water can't get behind it again.
6. Cleanup and Final Invoice
Full site cleanup. Final invoice on completion. Most residential replacements are complete in about six hours.
What We Replace It With
Seamless 0.032-gauge aluminum. Formed on-site with our KWM Ironman gutter machine as one contiguous piece. No mid-run joints to fail. Our 0.032 aluminum is meaningfully heavier than the 0.027 and 0.019 material commonly used by budget installers.
3×3 downspouts. Not the 2×3s that clog constantly or the bulky 3×4s. Our 3×3 profile creates a vortex effect that carries more water than the dimensions suggest, resists clogging, dents less, and needs only one elbow.
Aluminum instead of steel. If you're replacing a rusted galvanized system, this is the permanent fix. Aluminum doesn't rust, holds its finish, and won't put you back in this position in a decade.
Color-matched to your fascia. We match on-site with a physical color fan, against your actual house.
Most gutters you'll find at a big-box store come in pre-cut sections, usually about 10 feet long, that get pieced together and joined along your roofline. Every one of those joints is a seam, and every seam is a spot where water can eventually work its way through...leading to leaks.
Seamless gutters are different. Instead of snapping together short sections, we form your gutters from a single, continuous roll of heavy-gauge aluminum coil.
We have a truck-mounted forming machine that shapes the metal into a K-style gutter and cuts it to the exact length of each run on your home. We can create continuous lengths of 300 feet or more without a single seam in the middle.
Iron Man machine inside trailer
Spool of aluminum on machine
K style gutters formed
Gutter Replacement Cost
Replacement pricing is comparable to a new installation on a per-foot basis. Tear-off and disposal are included in our quote.
The variable that changes the number is fascia. If the wood behind your gutters has rotted, that's additional scope, and it's the thing most likely to move your quote. It's also the reason we look before we quote instead of giving you a number over the phone and revising it on install day.
Financing available through GreenSky for qualifying projects. If your replacement is part of an insurance claim, we'll work directly within your claim scope.
Why Homeowners Trust Our Replacements
We do this with our own crew. Most Minneapolis exterior contractors subcontract gutter work. We tried it in the past, and we ended up having to go back and fix every job the subs did. So, we built and trained our own gutter crew. They know our materials, they're accountable to our standards, and they're the ones who come back if a warranty issue ever comes up.
We diagnose before we quote. The reason we insist on looking at the fascia is that we've seen too many homeowners get a clean-sounding gutter quote from someone who never checked, then get hit with a change order on install day. We'd rather have the harder conversation up front.
Licensed, established, and local. General contractor licensed in Minnesota, doing exteriors since 1998. Over 15 employees. 5-star rated on Google, HomeAdvisor, and Angi. Based in Howard Lake, serving the full metro.
Lifetime labor warranty on our workmanship. Your aluminum coil also carries a manufacturer's warranty; the length and coverage depend on the product line selected for your home, and your estimator will confirm the specifics in writing with your quote.
Projects & Case Studies
Recent Gutter Projects
Check out our recent projects around the Minneapolis metro. We help churches, businesses, schools, and others secure their property.
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