Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repair in McKinley Hill, WA

McKinley Hill Gutter Solutionists

Gutters for McKinley Hill’s Craftsman blocks

McKinley Hill sits on Tacoma’s Eastside, with some of the city’s views of Commencement Bay from its upper streets. The business strip runs along McKinley Avenue, with brick storefronts, murals and small neighborhood shops, where Sacred Heart parish formed in 1912 and built its brick school at 4526 McKinley Avenue in 1924. A University of Washington study done with the City of Tacoma found that building dates here peak between the 1890s and the 1920s, that Craftsman houses are everywhere, and that about 62 percent of properties look eligible to count toward a historic district.

McKinley Park anchors the hill on its north side. The Tacoma Land and Improvement Company donated 22 acres in 1901, the park was renamed for President McKinley that September, and about four acres went to Interstate 5 in the 1960s. What remains is a steep, wooded hillside with streams and wetlands, and its trees also drop into gutters on the houses above. Older homes here tend to hide the same problems: original wood fascia, patched sectional gutters and downspouts that empty right at the foundation. We check all of it from the ladder and the ground, then fit seamless gutters or copper runs that suit the house.

Jamie and Zeke Edwards run The Brothers That Just Do Gutters Tacoma as a husband-and-wife business, and they were raised right here in the South Sound. On McKinley Hill we clean and flush gutters, repair leaks and sags, rebuild soft fascia, form seamless runs on-site and install BroGuard micro-mesh under the maples and firs. The same crew works across the Eastside and the rest of Tacoma.