Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repair in West Slope, WA

West Slope Gutter Solutionists

Gutters for West Slope’s mid-century rooflines

The West Slope runs downhill from Jackson Avenue toward the Tacoma Narrows, between Sixth Avenue and South 19th Street. Once the Narrows Bridge opened in 1940 the hillside became an easy commute, and in 1943 Eivind Anderson bought about 259 acres from the C. B. Wright estate. His Narrowmoor additions were recorded in 1944 and 1947 and filled in over the next two decades with ranches, brick bungalows and post-and-beam moderns on terraced lots that look out at the bridge and the Olympics.

Those rooflines are where the gutter work comes from. Low-pitched gables and hips feed long, horizontal eave runs, and the flat and built-up gravel roofs on the modern houses drain to just a few points. The state survey of the area dates 47 percent of Narrowmoor’s houses to the 1950s, so plenty of fascia boards here are past 65 years old. With about 42 inches of rain a year at the nearest NOAA station on the Narrows, one clogged outlet means overflow on the downhill side. We replace soft fascia board first, then hang one-piece runs with outlets sized for the roof above them.

Jamie and Zeke Edwards own The Brothers That Just Do Gutters Tacoma together as husband and wife, and both were raised in the South Sound. On the West Slope our crew hand-cleans gutters, clears downspouts down to the drain line, repairs or replaces worn systems and installs BroGuard micro-mesh where firs and maples hang over the eaves. We also work across the West End, over in University Place and up the hill in Fircrest, and every job starts with a free written estimate.