How Getting Gutter Guards Works in Akron, OH

The phone number on this site is answered around the clock, every day of the week. If you would sooner type than talk, the quote button opens a short request page run by Guttrz, the company behind Akron Gutter Guard. Either way, we text or call back within the hour.

It helps to have three things ready: your address, whether the house is one story or two, and what kind of trees stand over it. That is enough to set a time.

The person who comes to your door owns the company. He does not send a salesman, and he does not need to sit at your kitchen table. The visit is a ladder check and takes about 20 minutes.

From the ladder he looks at the things no satellite photo can show:

• the length of every run, measured by hand
• whether the gutters are 5 inch or 6 inch
• the fascia board, pressed for soft spots
• spikes and hangers, and any run pulling off the house
• the pitch of each run toward its downspout
• corners, seams and end caps that leak
• downspout outlets and where they send the water
• safe places to stand a ladder around decks, porches and plantings

On an Akron house from the 1920s that list matters more than it would on a new build. The page on guards for older homes explains what he is hoping not to find.

Before the day is over you receive photos of what he saw. They show each side of the house, the measurements, and anything that needs attention: a soft board, a row of loose spikes, a downspout elbow packed with leaves.

The report is honest in both directions. If every run is sound, it says so. If one run is not fit to carry a guard until it is repaired, it says that too, with a picture, before you have agreed to anything.

The price comes in writing. It shows the feet of gutter, the per-foot rate for each height, and any repair as a separate line. Corners, the cleaning and the downspout flush are already inside the rate. The Akron gutter guard cost page breaks down how the figure is reached.

Then nothing happens until you want it to. The price holds for a full year. No discount vanishes at midnight, and nobody calls to push. When you are ready, half down reserves an install date.

Most houses are finished in a day, and many by early afternoon. The gutters are cleaned by hand and the downspouts flushed. Loose runs get hidden hangers. The panels go on, every corner is mitered, and each side is tested with a hose.

That evening a second set of photos arrives, this time of the finished job. Every stage is described on the page about gutter guard installation in Akron.

Call the same number. Faults in the installation are corrected free of charge, no later than 30 days after you report them. Beyond that, the workmanship carries a ten-year warranty from Guttrz and the guard material carries Leaf Solution's Lifetime No-Clog Warranty. The two are not the same, and the warranty page sets out the difference.

Upkeep is light. Rinse the mesh with a garden hose once or twice a year, more often under heavy shade, and look for water spilling over the front edge after a big leaf drop.

Akron Gutter Guard is how Guttrz serves Akron and the rest of Summit County. Guttrz is a locally owned company based in North Canton, roughly half an hour down I-77. Calls made from this site ring there.

It fits one guard, the Leaf Solution stainless micro-mesh, and it prices that guard the same way for everyone. The company is new and small, and it would sooner tell you that than pretend otherwise. What it offers in place of size is the owner on the ladder, the photos in your hand, and a price you can take a year to think about.