How To Rivet Gutters

This old house general contractor tom silva shows how to install an efficient rain handling gutter system.

How to rivet gutters.

Secure it with eight pop rivets or sheet metal screws. Rivets are more work but they re more attractive and they don t leave sharp piunts inside the gutter. This is our first video in our tutorial on metal roofing. Form strip miter joint at corner cover the joint between two lengths of gutter at each corner with a strip miter a 3 inch wide strip of aluminum.

Rivets at the front of the gutter and installing the first rivet with the rivet gun. If you have a straight run gable roof measure from shingle to shingle and then add 1 2 inch to each side for a slight overlap. Start by drilling a 1 8 in. For outside corners measure from corner to corner.

Holes through the fitting into the hole. How to rivet gutters. Step 2 drill the right size holes. Cut a triangular section from.

Step 3 use clamps while drilling. Join the gutter to the corner with six rivets in the locations shown. Subscribe to this old house. When it bottoms out squeeze the handle several times until the rivet flattens and the stem shears off.

If you choose rivets begin by boring several 1 8 in. Choosing the right rivets means choosing a way to help prevent damage to your gutters. Step 1 measure the total run of the gutter length you need. Step 1 choose the right rivet material.