After many years in the home improvement industry, Mike Shanks decided to start his own company. While searching for the right opportunity, he discovered the remarkable Gutter Topper®, gutter protection system. In June of 1998, Mike became a dealer for Gutter Topper® and founded The Gutter Cover Company in Elyria, Ohio. We met with Mike recently, and listened as he explained how you can eliminate gutter cleaning forever;
The Gutter Cover Company offers a gutter protection system designed to keep your home's gutters clean without the yearly chore of climbing a ladder and performing the task manually. The Gutter Topper® consists of a solid aluminum panel in your choice of fourteen colors to match your existing roof color and blend with your roof line. It is mounted over your existing gutters and underneath your shingles allowing water to pass freely into the gutter while forcing leaves and debris to pass over the gutter and fall to the ground. Even in heavy downpours, you will never have to worry about overflowing gutters. In fact, Gutter Topper® has been tested to withstand twenty-two inches of rainfall per hour!
The Gutter Topper® is an Ohio-made product that is compatible with all types of roofing materials, including asphalt and slate shingles, wood shakes, standing seam, slate, ceramic S tiles, and even copper. Water flows over the solid aluminum panel to the outside edge of the nose, then back into the gutter. Debris washes directly across the solid panel and then falls to the ground. Throughout the winter, ice passes over the Gutter Topper® rather than accumulating in the gutters, overloading them, and causing them to fall. Gutter Topper® has earned the Good Housekeeping Seal, America's most trusted consumer icon. Products earning this Seal have undergone extensive review by the Good Housekeeping Institute.
Gutter Topper® has been "tested to be the best™".Gutter Topper® has been independently tested by PRI Asphalt Technologies in Tampa, Florida, and found to withstand 110 mile per hour winds with no lift or movement, support upward of 300 pounds per lineal foot, and withstand 2,000 hours of accelerated weathering with no surface changes. Gutter Topper® is guaranteed for the life of your home and is transferable to the new owner when you sell your home. Our lifetime performance warranty guarantees that you will always have a free-flowing gutter that will never clog. In the unlikely event that you would have a problem, simply give us a call and we will take care of it at absolutely no charge.
When a customer calls about our services, we arrange a convenient time to go to their home and discuss their gutter protection needs. We walk around the home to see the present gutter condition, and make suggestions on how to better protect the home. Most people do not need new gutters, so we show them how gutter protection will save them time and hassle, keep them safer, and enhance the curb appeal of their home while increasing the home's value. Should new gutters be required, we will inform the homeowner and offer cost-effective solutions. We let them know exactly how much it will cost to install the Gutter Topper® system on their home, and if they decide to go with us, we arrange a date to have their new gutter protection completely installed within one to two weeks. Installation normally takes less than one day.
The first step in the installation process is to clean the existing gutters and downspouts. Next, we make sure the gutters are sloped correctly to enable free-flowing drainage. If needed, we will then re-pitch the gutters to ensure they will flow properly. We re-seal the gutters at the end caps, any seams, and at the corner seams. We make sure all the gutter spikes are tight and properly fastened, and then we install the Gutter Topper®.
Our installers are trained and certified by Gutter Topper, and have been with us for a long time. They are carpenters by trade and there is nothing they run across that they haven't seen before. Unlike most carpenters, our installers do strictly gutter protection every day, and are very good at what they do.
We serve ten counties throughout Northern Ohio, and are a member of the Better Business Bureau, the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI), and the Professional Remodelers Association (PRA). We have full liability insurance, are covered by Workmen's' Compensation, were awarded the Good Housekeeping Promise Seal, and were awarded the Super Service Award from Angie's List in 2003.
Gutter Topper® is your best choice for gutter protection. The Gutter Topper® system eliminates clogged gutters which will save you the hassle of expensive home repairs for sagging gutters, wet walls, flooded basements, and leaky and cracked foundations. With Gutter Topper®, you will eliminate the need to clean your gutters forever.
When you install Gutter Topper® gutter guards, water goes into your gutter and nowhere else. Call The Gutter Cover Company today, and don't forget to tell them The Advocate sent you!
