K-Guard® Leaf Free Gutters Versus the Competition

Thank you for visiting our website. We appreciate the fact that you are considering having K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters installed on your home. We understand that your home is the single largest investment that you have made and we hope you will chose K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters to protect that investment.

Undoubtedly, you have heard other company s claims and you are trying to decipher the truth in all of these sales pitches. You inevitably, are also trying to compare the various products in the market and you are certainly looking for the best value. To help you in your decision, let us offer the following information:

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There are only two products currently in the marketplace that integrate a trough (gutter) and a cover in their system. K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters and Leafguard. This is an important point for several reasons:

(i) The trough (gutter) and hood on a K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters are fully engineered to work together to provide the best possible protection against gutter clogs from leaves and debris. This is unlike standard toppers, covers and helmets, which are supplemental products that are sold to go on existing gutters. The K-Guard system is held in place with our patented, high-impact, all-weather polymer hangers that are screwed directly into your fascia board and rafter tails, providing the ultimate in strength and durability.

(ii) When fully-integrated and fully-engineered K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters are installed on your home, they are installed at the proper height based on engineering studies that incorporate tests results over several years. Toppers, covers and helmets, are installed on your existing gutters with no forethought on height in relation to your roof. The architect never designed the gutter to have a topper and therefore did not leave room to accommodate a topper. As a result, they appear clunky and inappropriately sized. They also do not function very well.

(iii)If your gutters are leaking, rotting or falling off your house, toppers, helmets and covers will not stop the leaking and rotting. Hammering a large nail into a hole that is already too big will not stop the gutter from eventually pulling away from your house. K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters include a brand new trough (gutter) with the hood so you do not have to be burdened with these on-going problems.

Price Comparison

Initially a company selling a topper, helmet or cover for your existing covers will point out how much cheaper their product is compared to K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters. Do not be fooled! With them, you are only getting a topper product. With K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters you will have a complete system both trough (gutter) and hood. When they start working on your house and stop to tell you that you need new gutters, guess what, their price will exceed K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters price. Do not fall into their apples-to-oranges comparisons. Calculate the prices based on the complete system trough (gutter) and hood and you will see that K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters is an exceptional bargain!

Roof warranties

All of these Topper products have to tuck into a row of shingles. These products will inevitably cost you a lot more money once the roof shingles dissolve and cause leaks! K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters never touches your roof and therefore, will never void a homeowner s roof warranty. K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters is also the only leaf-free gutter system with a rear drainage channel, so that water has two points of entry into the trough (gutter). The rear drainage channel prevents wind-blown rain from running up under your roof line and possibly freezing. Topper products, which again, are tucked under your shingles, will serve as an open door to this type of rain. You shingles on your roof are flat and overlapping for a very good reason, to keep water out! Toppers will lift your shingles and over time cause roof problems!

Aesthetics

K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters will keep out the leaves, and provide superior water drainage, but how they will look on your house? Fantastic! K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters were engineered for installation onto existing houses incorporating time-studied engineering principles into its design. K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters don t have any of the sharper edges and vertical faces that other products have, and so it will soften the look of your home. K-Guard Leaf-Free Gutters will look like crown molding on the outside of your house. And because you receive a trough (gutter) and hood made from the same material, the colors are the same. Topper products are supplemental products that do not address the simple fact that the engineering of your house, gutter, and roof never took into account adding a topper product to the existing house. When you factor in that these toppers will never match exactly the color of your existing gutters, they appear clunky, boxy, and very much out of place on an existing home.

Once again, thank you for considering K-Guard® Leaf-Free Gutters. I am sure that if you choose to have our gutter protection system installed, it will prove to be one of the best decisions you have ever made with regards to protecting the life of your home.

Single Vs Seamless

What is better, a one-piece system or a seamless system? There is a difference. K-Guard® Leaf Free Gutter System is made of sections that are installed seamlessly up to 100 feet. Other gutter companies may claim their one-piece system is superior in order to detract from the flaws in their system. The biggest flaw being, if debris gets trapped inside, there is no way to remove it without removing the entire system. With K-Guards' Flip-Top design, your dealer only has to remove the top in order to remove any debris that may become trapped inside.

One Piece = Several Problems:

• One-piece systems do no allow any wind-blown rain into the gutter. On the surface, that may sound like an advantage. Not so. Instead, the rain blows up onto and under the roof shingles which can lead to future trouble. K-Guard's two-piece leaf-free gutter system's design features a rear drainage channel that catches wind-blown rain and deposits it into the gutter.
• The textured coil in one-piece systems has changed and in many cases is no longer available. In order to extend or repair an existing one-piece system you will find it difficult, if not impossible, to match new coil to an old gutter system. K-Guard's .027 and .032 coil is manufactured by several aluminum companies throughout the United States; extending an existing system or replacing damaged sections with matching sections is easily accomplished.
• In a one-piece system, the hood is supported by a cheap piece of plastic. K-Guard's patented hanger is made of all-weather, high-impact polystyrene that holds and supports the entire hood and trough of the gutter. We guarantee our system will never sag. In fact, the K-Guard patented hanger is capable of holding its shape even with 120 pounds of weight on the nose of the hanger! There is no one-piece system that can even come close to that level of strength.

The K-Guard system was engineered to incorporate solutions to all of the flaws of one-piece systems. That is why K-Guard® Leaf Free Gutter System is simply the best leaf free gutter system on the market.