Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repair in Virginia-Highland, Atlanta, GA

Virginia-Highland Gutter Solutionists

Gutters for Virginia-Highland’s streetcar-era bungalows

Virginia-Highland grew up in the early 1900s as a streetcar suburb, served by the Nine Mile Trolley that began running around 1890. It takes its name from the corner of Virginia Avenue and North Highland Avenue, and the gentle curves where those streets meet are left over from the trolley line. Most of the houses and streets were built between 1909 and 1926, and the Virginia Highland Historic District, about 612 acres of mostly bungalows and Craftsman homes, joined the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 2005. Neighbors stopped the planned I-485 freeway in the 1970s, and land cleared for it became John Howell Memorial Park in 1988.

The franchise is owned by Matthew Prewett, and the crews that work Virginia-Highland start each day on Thornton Road in Lithia Springs. Century-old homes here bring their own gutter problems: low-slope porch roofs, deep eaves, original fascia painted over for decades, and tight side yards with little room to send the water. We clean and flush, repair or replace sections, form seamless runs on site, swap out rotted fascia and install BroGuard fine metal mesh. Where a wide front porch collects water from the main roof, 6-inch gutters or a well-placed downspout keep it off the steps. Every estimate is free and written.

Atlanta’s NOAA normal is about 50.4 inches of rain a year, wettest in winter and summer. In Virginia-Highland the trees are old and tall, with big oaks shading many streets, so fall leaves come down in quantity and spring pollen settles into every trough. Narrow lots mean a downspout often empties beside a neighbor’s driveway or a basement wall. Our maintenance program sets a visit after the leaves and another after the pollen, ahead of the summer thunderstorms.