Seamless Gutters in Washington, MO
Washington sits on the bluffs above the Missouri River, and that location is hard on gutters. Storms roll up the river channel and dump rain fast, the older neighborhoods up the hill off Jefferson Street carry steep roofs that shed water hard, and the historic brick blocks near the riverfront were never built for the volume a modern downpour throws at them. A failed gutter on a Washington home does not just overflow. It sends water straight against brick, foundation, and the soil at the base of a house that may have stood for a century. When a homeowner here finally calls us, the leak almost always traces back to a gutter that pulled loose, rusted, or clogged years before.
We have worked Washington roofs since 1990, and Tom Emmendorfer runs a second family office right here in town under the original Emmendorfer Roofing name. That means when your gutters come off in a storm or rot out after twenty years, the crew that shows up is local, not a Kirkwood or Fenton outfit driving in for the day. Our machine forms each gutter from one continuous coil of aluminum at your driveway, cut to the exact length of the run. That is the real difference between a true seamless gutter and the sectioned, snap-together lengths a big-box store sells you, where every joint becomes a future leak. On the steep older roofs above the riverfront and the wide ranch roofs in the south-side subdivisions toward the bypass, we size the system to the roof above it instead of hanging one trough on every house.
What our gutters includes in Washington
A gutter job done right starts behind the gutter, not at it. Here is what happens once you approve the estimate.
Inspect the fascia and gutter boards first
Before a single foot of gutter goes up, we check the wood it hangs on. Old gutters that held water for years usually leave soft or rotten fascia and gutter boards behind them. We show you what we find and replace the bad wood, because new gutter screwed into rotten board pulls right back off in the next storm.
Measure every roofline on-site
We measure each run of your roof to the inch, then size the system. Most Franklin County homes get 5-inch K-style gutter, but steeper or larger roofs that shed a lot of water fast get 6-inch with oversized downspouts so a hard Missouri downpour does not overshoot the trough.
Roll your gutters seamless from one coil
Our machine forms each gutter from a continuous coil of aluminum, cut to the exact length of the run. One unbroken piece per roofline means no mid-run seams to leak, the single biggest failure point on sectioned store-bought gutter. You pick the color and we color-match it to your roof and siding.
Hang, pitch, and seal the system
We hang the gutters with hidden hangers, pitch them so water actually runs to the downspouts instead of pooling, and seal every corner and end cap. Downspouts get placed to carry water away from the foundation, not dump it at the corner of the house where it soaks back in.
Clean to no footprint
We haul off every scrap of old gutter and magnet-sweep for fallen screws. Customers tell us our cleanup is our signature. We want to get in, do the work, and get out without leaving a footprint in your yard or your gutters full of our debris.
Washington's river-valley weather is what eats gutters here. Spring and early-summer storms come up the Missouri River channel and drop an inch of rain in under an hour, then a hard Franklin County winter of freeze-thaw splits the seams on cheap sectioned gutter and warps the fascia behind it. The steep older roofs in the hill neighborhoods shed that water so fast a standard 5-inch trough overshoots, while the larger south-side subdivision roofs drain several slopes into one corner. We read your roof from the driveway, check the fascia and gutter boards underneath, and size the gutter to actually carry a Washington downpour instead of letting it spill back against your foundation.
Gutters in Washington: questions
Get your Washington seamless gutter estimate
A real Emmendorfer measures your Washington rooflines, checks the fascia underneath, and gives you a written number that does not change. Free, no obligation, same-day storm response.
- We walk your actual roof before we quote it
- The manufacturer is named on your written estimate
- The price you approve is the price you pay
- Tom handles your insurance claim start to finish