What can homeowners do to reduce flooding?

The risk of flooding in Chicago is growing. Here are a few easy and inexpensive ways to reduce flooding around your home and ...
Forbes

Here’s Your Ultimate Gutter And Downspout Sizes Guide

Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...
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Downspout repairs typically cost $100 to $250 nationwide

Downspout repairs rarely make anyone’s dream renovation list, but they quietly protect your foundation, siding, and landscaping from costly water damage. Across the country, you typically spend ...
Yahoo Style Canada

How To Turn The Eyesore Of A Downspout Into An Elegant Landscaping Feature

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If your downspout is not securely connected to a stormwater drain or has developed a leak, this water leakage can eventually cause ...

All Pro Gutter Guards Expands Downspout Repair Services

April 01, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - All Pro Gutter Guards announced the expansion of its service line to include ...
OnMilwaukee

Spring melt brings downspout concerns

Spring melt brings downspout concerns Spring melt brings downspout concerns Homeowners often ask what they can do with their own property in order to be part of the greater solution and not the ...
The Herald-Times

Adding end cap and downspout to gutters can help prevent damage

Q. Just had new gutters installed on our renovated farmhouse. One section has no outlet, no end cap and no downspout. I say this is wrong as water then ice will dam up in and around the gutter and the ...
Oregonian

Decorative downspouts: Rain chains make water runoff look and sound pretty

Downspouts are a necessary element to guide rainwater from the gutter to the ground. And though functional, downspouts are not know for their aesthetic value and often detract from the architectural ...
BizTimes

Downspout Goalpost defends homes from the elements

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Necessity is often the mother of invention. That’s how Tom ...
Seattle Times

Continuous downspout? It’s unwise — and ugly

I have gutters and downspouts from the upper roof of my two-story home that drop water down onto a lower roof. The lower roof drains this water down into the gutter below. It seems like this increased ...
Ars Technica

Frozen Gutter Downspout... How to unfreeze?

Last night, I noticed that there was ice forming on the side of my house. Further investigation revealed that one of the main downspouts was frozen, which I'm guessing caused a nice chain reaction and ...