Gutter repair and installation in Boerne, TX

Gutters in Boerne

Two kinds of houses, mostly. The old town along Main Street and the streets off Cibolo Creek has 1900s limestone and frame houses with steep roofs and, on the ones that still have them, galvanized half-round gutters. Out along Highway 46 and IH-10 are the newer places: Fair Oaks Ranch, Cordillera Ranch, Tapatio Springs, Esperanza and the acreage lots in between, with big hip roofs, deep porches and a lot of standing-seam metal.

Metal roofs are the thing most gutter crews from town get wrong here. Water leaves a standing-seam roof faster than it leaves shingles, and it comes off in a sheet during a storm. A 5-inch gutter hung at shingle height will be overshot. On metal we go to 6-inch, set the gutter so the roof edge drops into the trough, add 3x4 downspouts, and use hangers rated for the load. If the roof has snow guards or a big overhang, we look before we quote.

Water on a limestone lot

Gutter repair Boerne TX homeowners call about is often not about the gutter. The house has decent gutters and one downspout that dumps beside the slab, where the ground is caliche over rock and can't absorb anything. The water runs along the foundation, finds the low corner and sits. The fix is a rigid extension out to where the lot falls away, or a buried line to daylight, and it's a fraction of what a foundation company will charge to fix the result. Downspouts and your foundation covers the soil side.

A lot of Boerne homes are on wells or on rainwater, and rain collection is common. We'll size the gutters and set the downspouts to feed a cistern or tank where you have one, with a first-flush diverter so the catkins don't end up in it. Texas exempts rainwater harvesting equipment from sales tax, which the tank supplier will know about even if the gutter crew doesn't.

The usual jobs in Boerne

• Seamless installation — 6-inch aluminum on metal and large hip roofs, colors matched to a standing-seam roof or a limestone-and-cedar exterior
• Gutter repair — corners and hangers on 1990s–2000s systems in Fair Oaks Ranch, hail sections after a spring storm
• First-time installation — a lot of Hill Country builders left gutters off entirely
• Gutter guards — screen under the cedar elms and pecans by the creek, micro-mesh under live oaks
• Gutter cleaning — after the spring oak drop, and after the fall storms

Long runs, few downspouts

The typical newer Boerne house has 60- and 70-foot runs along a porch roof with one downspout at the end, because the builder didn't want to break up the look. In a May storm that run overflows at the far corner and pours onto the porch. A second downspout, or a 3x4 upgrade at the existing one, is $150–$300 and it's the most common repair we do north of Fair Oaks Parkway.

Pricing in Boerne

Same as San Antonio, no travel charge. Repairs $150–$600, seamless aluminum $9–$14 a foot, a large single-story with 260 feet of 6-inch and eight downspouts typically $3,000–$4,200. Copper and steel quoted after a look. The pricing page has the full tables.

Nearby

Boerne, Fair Oaks Ranch, Cordillera Ranch, Tapatio Springs, Esperanza, the acreage off Highway 46 toward Bergheim, and Leon Springs on the Bexar County side. Zip codes 78006 and 78015. We also cover Helotes and Grey Forest on the way out Bandera Road.