As regards screwing up the gutter - repair or replace?
Homeowners must ask themselves this all the time!
First of all, this is not the first time the gutter on this vacant house has been "repaired."
How can you tell?
The soffit and fascia material has been caulked and painted, although not recently.
And the gutter has some kind of material, what I don't know, oozing out the seams.
But obviously it had come apart again.
So, this time they decided to screw it up!
Literally!
There are 12 sheet metal screws visible in this photo.
There are more on the other side of the corner, not seen from this side. And from inside the attic there was more yet to see! I think you spell it R-O-T...
The gutter is full of debris and it rained the previous night, so this corner is still dripping, which is probably the thing that precipitated this "repair." I suspect that corner material was falling off too.
So, in order to "get the house ready for sale," they decided to screw the gutter up.
IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE! LET ME TELL YOU, THAT ISN'T THE ONLY THING THEY DID TO THIS HOUSE!
My recommendation: a brief swing around the house will probably reveal what things have been done to get the house ready for sale. The "repair" above looks fairly recent, but may not be! If this is a form of "maintenance," then likely there is other similarly unprofessional "maintenance" elsewhere!
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