Residential Gutter Installation & Cleaning

Eavestroughs get ignored until water runs down the siding or pools against the foundation, and by then the damage is rarely just to the gutter. A home's entire drainage system depends on them, and in Alberta, they must handle rapid spring melt and heavy summer downpours without overflowing. Markit Roofing handles residential gutter installation, cleaning, and repair across Calgary and Edmonton, pitched for the runoff a house sheds.

The job is not really about the gutter; it is about where the water ends up. Done right, it leaves the roof, runs the length, and discharges well clear of the house. Done badly, it soaks the foundation, ices the walkway, or backs up under the shingles. Book your eavestrough installation or cleaning today.

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What Failing Eavestroughs Do to a Whole Home

A failing eavestrough does not stay an eavestrough problem for long. Overflowing or blocked runs send water exactly where a house least wants it: against the foundation, behind the siding, and onto the walkway where it freezes. What starts as a clogged gutter can lead to a wet basement, rotted fascia, or a slip hazard by the door. Watch for these on your home.

Almost all of it traces back to three things: a system too small for the roof draining into it, a cleaning schedule that slipped, or downspouts dumping water at the base of the wall. We find which before recommending a full residential gutter installation, because a run that only needs re-sloping or a downspout extension does not need replacing.

Our Gutter Installation Process

Measure Slope and Runoff

The first thing we do is work out where the roof drains are, then read the pitch already on the eaves. A trough wants a gentle, even fall toward its outlet, about a finger’s width per ten feet; too flat and it pools, too steep and it looks crooked. We press-test the fascia too, since soft board will not carry a full run once winter loads it.

Everything after that follows from the survey. A broad roof face dumping into one short trough needs a deeper profile and an extra downspout, not just more length, which is why plenty of home gutters spill in a hard rain while looking clean.

Size and Form the Eavestrough

A five-inch trough handles most Alberta houses, but a tall or wide roof sheds enough water to warrant a six-inch, which holds more and jams less. This sizing is the heart of a residential gutter installation, since a trough too small for its catchment is the leading reason we get called back for spilling.

Each length is rolled on-site straight from the coil stock and cut to fit the eave exactly. With no seam running along it, there is nothing to split as the aluminum works back and forth through the wide temperature range a year in Alberta puts it through.

Hang and Seal the Eavestrough

The formed lengths go up on brackets set tighter than code calls for, because a house trough carries sliding snow and ice, not just rainwater, and that load is what pulls a run down. Too few brackets and the trough droops or peels off the eave, and it usually rips a length of fascia away as it goes.

The only seams in a seamless run are its corners and outlets, and each of those is sealed properly rather than left to the metal. We finish with the run pitched, anchored, and joined to downspouts of matching size, so whatever lands in the trough drains out rather than damming at a narrow point.

Route Water From the House

Catching the water is only half of it; the rest is getting it gone. A downspout that lets go at the foot of the wall floods the same foundation the trough is there to guard, so we run extensions that carry it at least six feet out, and farther still where the yard tilts back toward the house.

We keep those outlets away from entries, stairs, and walkways too, since a spout draining across a path turns to ice every Alberta winter. On a system already in place, we hand-clear the troughs and spouts, run water through to prove the flow, and check each outlet lets go before we sign off.

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Eavestrough Services We Do on Alberta Homes

A seamless trough is formed on site from one unbroken coil, so the length running down a wall comes as a single piece rather than short sections lapped together every few feet. Every one of those laps is where a sectional gutter gives out first, weeping down the board as the joint moves with the weather. We cut each length to the eave it serves, add whatever inside and outside corners the house calls for, and tint the metal to the existing fascia and siding so the finished line reads as part of the home.

Clearing troughs is the dullest job on the list and the one that heads off the most trouble. Muck packs at the outlets before anywhere else, so a length can read as clean from the lawn while its spout mouth is plugged solid and the overflow is already running down the front. We lift the debris out by hand rather than washing it deeper in, inspect each outlet, and send water down every spout to prove it runs. Spring and autumn are the least you should do it in Alberta, and a yard full of old trees needs more than that.

Downspouts are what actually carry water off the property, and houses tend to have too few of them, sized too small, or dropped in the wrong spot. We cut in extra outlets where a long trough needs a second outlet, swap out undersized or dented spouts, and add extensions that push discharge six feet past the wall. Where the ground falls back toward the house, we go further, sometimes with a buried line, because a spout emptying at the base of the wall defeats the whole reason for fitting gutters.

Guards pay off on some houses and are a waste of money on others, so you get the straight version from us instead of a pitch. Beneath a canopy of trees, they cut right down on how often a trough plugs, and heated versions earn their place at eaves prone to ice dams. What none of them do is retire the ladder for good: fine grit, roof granules, and pine needles still find a way in, so cleaning stretches out rather than ends. We put guards where the trees and the roofline warrant them, and tell you plainly when they do not.

Why Alberta Homeowners Trust Our Gutter Work

Most eavestrough on Alberta homes is fitted by crews who do only gutters, with no eye on the roof directly above. Markit Roofing comes at it as roofers first, which matters because the eavestrough, the fascia, and the roof edge are one connected system, and a fault in any of them usually shows up as a fault in the others. We treat the gutter as part of the roof it hangs from, not a separate afterthought.

Sized for Alberta Rain and Snow

Most residential gutter installations across Alberta are spec’d as if rain were the only thing the trough ever handles. It is not. They take a rapid March thaw in bulk, they take ice, and they take the shove of wet snow shedding off the slope overhead. We choose the profile, set the bracket spacing, and locate the spouts around all of that, which is how our runs stay bolted to the fascia through winters that tear flimsier work off the eave.

Away From Your Foundation

The single job of the whole system is to get water clear of the house, so that is what we build for. Every downspout is extended to discharge at least six feet from the wall, further where the ground slopes back toward the foundation, and routed away from the doors and paths where winter ice becomes a hazard. A gutter that dumps water at the base of the wall is worse than no gutter, and we never leave one that way.

Seamless and Formed On Site

We roll every length ourselves on the day, out of one coil, so nothing is seamed along its span, and a seam is the first place a home gutter starts dripping. It also means the trough is made to the true measurement of your eave, not assembled from off-the-shelf pieces. Less seaming leaves fewer seals to age, fewer ledges for ice to grab, and an unbroken line down the fascia once we are finished.

One Call for Roof and Gutters

The trough hangs at the exact meeting point of the roof, fascia, and wall, which is why what looks like a gutter fault and what looks like a roof fault often turn out to be the same. By handling both ourselves, we can follow a leak to its real source rather than guess, and a residential roof inspection clinches it when the origin is not plain. With a roof already booked for work, folding the eavestrough into the same visit beats calling a crew out twice.

Cleaning You Never Chase Up

What sinks a home eavestrough is seldom the way it was hung. It is a cleaning routine that drifted for a couple of autumns until a plugged trough poured over at the wall. We set your house on a fixed spring-and-autumn round as part of your residential roof maintenance, show up without needing a reminder, and report what came out each time, so the system stays working rather than filling unseen until the morning water shows up in the basement.

Residential Gutter Installation & Cleaning

What Failing Eavestroughs Do to a Whole Home

Our Gutter Installation Process

Measure Slope and Runoff

Size and Form the Eavestrough

Hang and Seal the Eavestrough

Route Water From the House

Have a new roofing project?

Eavestrough Services We Do on Alberta Homes

Why Alberta Homeowners Trust Our Gutter Work

Sized for Alberta Rain and Snow

Away From Your Foundation

Seamless and Formed On Site

One Call for Roof and Gutters

Cleaning You Never Chase Up

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Roofing Installation & Replacement Services

Emergency Roof Repair Service

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