Water Splashing Behind Guttering

Water leaking in behind the facia of your roof could be caused by a couple of things.

Water splashing behind guttering.

1 your roof sheets have a hole in them or your screws or nails or equivalent are not watertight anymore or 2 the more common reason is where roof sheets are cut too short or they don t overhang far enough into the gutter. The extra thickness of the vinyl. In roof valleys rain water will travel faster especially during a heavy storm or if the gutters are already full and the water will skip over the gutter and right onto whatever or whomever is unlucky enough to be beneath it. Home centers sell a gutter apron in 10 ft.

Have rain water dripping out from between your facia and gutters. Capillary action is a water activity in which water adheres to a surface and follow the surface around. If water is dripping behind your gutter it s probably because it was installed without any flashing over the back of the gutter. You can find these precut gutter splash guards about 3 in brown and white aluminum at a home center but you could easily make your own out of aluminum or sheet metal and spray paint them to match your gutters.

Holes through the splash guard and the gutter. Are you getting water behind your gutter. The gutter apron will prevent the dripping. A gutter apron is a bent piece of flashing that tucks up under the shingles and over the gutter.

Rainwater leaking from a gutter ends up behind siding and causes a wall to rot. Thankfully there s a fix for this and it s called a gutter splash guard. At some point in the past an owner had vinyl siding installed over old siding. Ever wonder why that is.

When the roof shingles do not extend past the metal drip edge the water will suck back on the metal drip edge this is called capillary action and run behind your gutters. The first cause is when the roofing material is installed many roofers will not extend the roofing material past the roof edging or drip edge.