Seamless Gutter Company in New Braunfels, TX

Gutter cleaning and installation in New Braunfels

Seamless gutters in New Braunfels, TX have to handle two different towns. West of I-35 the city climbs into the hill country, with limestone lots, cedar and live oak, and roofs that shed water fast. East of the interstate the ground flattens into dark prairie clay where water would rather sit than drain. Gutters Made Easy installs rain gutters on both sides, forming every seamless gutter run on site so it fits the home and the lot it sits on.

In New Braunfels, three kinds of trees fill most gutters. Bald cypress along the Comal and the Guadalupe drop fine, needle-like leaves in fall that pack into a gutter like wet sawdust. Live oaks shed their old leaves and pollen tassels in spring. Cedar elms add another round of small leaves late in the year. If your home sits under any of that leaf debris, plan on cleaning at least twice a year, once after the oaks finish and once after the cypress turn. Our gutter cleaning service clears the troughs, flushes every downspout and checks the hangers while we are on the ladder.

Cypress needles and oak tassels both slip through wide screens, so if you are tired of the twice-a-year routine, a fine mesh leaf guard is the version that actually works under these trees. You can compare the options on our gutter guards page.

Rain gutters for hill country and prairie lots

On hill country lots, the main gutter problem is speed. Water leaves a steep roof and a sloped lot quickly, overshoots small gutters at the valleys, and then cuts a channel wherever the downspout empties onto bare limestone. A wider 6 inch K-style run, extra outlets near the valleys and a splash pad or drain line at each downspout handle most of it.

On the prairie side the problem is the opposite. Clay soil swells when it is wet and shrinks when it dries, and a downspout that empties beside the slab keeps that soil swinging between the two. Carrying the water several feet out, or into buried underground drainage that runs to the street, keeps the ground around the foundation steadier.

Heavy rain and the river valleys

New Braunfels knows what a rain event can do. The National Weather Service summary of the October 1998 flood describes homes along the Guadalupe River from Canyon Lake to Seguin being washed off their foundations. Gutters have nothing to do with river flooding, and no gutter system will change what a river does. What they do control is the water coming off your own roof during the same kind of storm, when inches of rain fall in a few hours and an undersized gutter turns into a waterfall against your siding and slab.

That is why we size rain gutters for the hard storms rather than the average ones: enough width, enough downspouts, and a clear place for each downspout to send its water.

Older homes and new subdivisions

New Braunfels runs from German-era stone and frame houses near downtown and in the Gruene area to master-planned neighborhoods that went up in the last decade. Older homes often look best with a half round profile on round brackets, which suits the rooflines they were built with. Newer homes usually take K-style in a color matched to the trim, and many come under HOA rules about color and placement, so ask us for the details in writing if your HOA wants to approve the change first. For one example, our write-up of a recent single-story install in New Braunfels shows how a color picked to blend with the roof reads from the street.

The same New Braunfels crew under a new name

If you remember us as Advanced Seamless Rain Gutter Solutions, you have the right company. We changed the name to Gutters Made Easy, but the family, the crew and the shop in Kyle stayed the same. Owner Tyler Smith still leads with more than 20 years of rain gutter and sheet metal experience, every new gutter installation carries a lifetime manufacturer warranty on materials and a 10-year workmanship guarantee, and a local estimate in New Braunfels is still free. Call (512) 881-9204 or use the contact form on this page. For a sagging run, a leaking corner or a downspout that pulled loose, our gutter repair visits fix the problem without selling you a whole new system, and a yearly maintenance visit keeps it that way.