Old Redwood Gutters

Blue ox can also provide you with directions for installation care of your redwood gutters.

Old redwood gutters.

Retaining restoring old redwood gutters. Published 4 00 am pdt saturday october 18 2003 q. Once the paint has dried completely you can continue the task of repairing the gutter. Your specs are our specialty.

It is recommended to allow the wood gutters to sit for two to four weeks prior to installation as the lumber is green when milled. Custom milled redwood and alaskan yellow cedar rain gutters hi. Box 669 winthrop wa 98862 phone 800 597 7191 fax 509 997 2040 e mail. We arrange custom milling and handle only ecologically salvaged old growth redwood clear all heart all quarter sawn all fully air dried correctly never used before.

The custom milling we arrange can be to any specifications you define. Other historical gutters ranged from two boards nailed together in a long v shape at the bottom of the roof to concealed gutters sheet metal lined troughs just above the edge of the roof to long sections of redwood or douglas fir milled into half round gutters. Simple wood gutters often called yankee gutters or box gutters have been around for a long time in one form or another. I recently read your column about the redwood cabins.

Often the old growth wood was rot resistant enough to perform admirably for decades and other times the gutters were lined with a sheet metal like lead or copper to extend their life. One of the nicest things about wood gutters is the ability to miter them together like any other molding no messy fittings and rivets. For redwood gutters have a good handyman determine if they can be caulked or patched. The order of redwood gutters arrived on my doorstep in a large crate and installation was straightforward.

It is very important that the instructions be carried out properly. Bill burnett kevin burnett. Scrub off the old paint and remove the rotten parts with a chisel before repainting the gutter. Downspouts come in the same variety of materials as gutters.

Today we still manufacture the original profiles of wood gutters that were used in the classic homes of the victorian thru the colonial revival eras a span of almost 100 years. We also have thousands of board feet in quarter sawn cants from 30 x 24 and down of all sawlog lengths. Bear creek lumber 495 twisp winthrop eastside rd. The company has installation advice on their website and good customer support.

We use genuine long lasting premium grade cedar in sizes from 3 x 3 thru 6 x 10 covering the full range of commercially available wood gutters of the time.