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My neighbor on W 41st told me the trick to old Cleveland gutters and I still use it
He saw me up on a ladder fighting a sagging gutter on my 1920s house and just said "run the hanger screw into the rafter tail, not the fascia board." Six houses later I still do it his way, does anyone else have an old-timer trick like that?
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torres.grant4d ago
Does the hanger screw into the rafter tail actually hold long term though? I get why the old guy said it, the fascia on these old houses is often just a flimsy board tacked on, but running a screw at an angle into the rafter means you're only catching the edge of the wood, and the grain there can split out after a few freeze cycles. Straight into the fascia with a proper spike at least fails in a way you can see coming. I'd rather fix a rotten fascia board every 20 years than have a lag pull out of a rafter tail and take a chunk of the roof edge with it. Old timer tricks work until they don't, and nobody remembers the houses where the trick failed.
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