Gutters in Clermont, FLLake Minneola rain. Gutters that keep up.

Historic Downtown Clermont lies along the south and east shores of Lake Minneola.

The lake covers 1,890 acres and is the third largest in the Clermont chain of lakes.

Waterfront Park sits on the shore, and the 226-foot Florida Citrus Tower is a Clermont landmark.

We work downtown, in Kings Ridge and Lakeview Hills, and across the rest of the city.

Lake County gets about 50 inches of rain in a normal year.

Over half of it falls from June through September.

Tropical storms push rain sideways under every loose hanger.

Gutters that are loose on the fascia are the first to fail when wind and rain arrive together.

The median home in Clermont was built in 2006, according to Census figures.

Original gutters on a house that age have been through twenty-odd summer storm seasons.

Builder-grade trouble spots include open seams, loose hangers and too few downspouts.

About two in three homes are owner-occupied, and about seven in ten are single-family houses.

If yours has two stories, a clogged run is hard to see from the ground.

We have hung gutters on stucco two-story homes.

Stucco streaks fast when water sheets off an open roofline.