Donald V.
From the beginning, dealing with Ralph Flores was a pleasure. Even though his base is North Hollywood, he was very familiar with our neighborhood in Santa Barbara, and also had experience installing the brand of metal roof on our house.
The previous owner had installed extremely large and low hanging gutters on our low-slung mid-century modern home. They dropped 5-6 inches below our already wide and low 7-ft eaves, blocking or encroaching upon much of our view of the mountains in front and the town and sea in the back. Their traditional-style ogee profile was completely inappropriate for the house. The cheap downspouts slanted down so steeply as they crossed the walks around the house that I was constantly banging my head on them.
We’d had a local custom gutter fabricator look at the situation and he told us that a custom gutter job with an appropriate profile would be above $10,000. A standard job with smaller ogee gutters set higher would be almost $3500, but they would still hang down from the eave somewhat.
We looked on Angies List for Los Angeles and found Brothers Sheet Metal with a solid “A” rating. Ralph knew what we wanted, sent color samples and arranged to get us a sample of the gutter itself. It looked perfect, and when he showed us how it would fit right up under the flashing coming down from the metal roof, we were sold.
The standard colors were a near-perfect match for our house and trim, so we told Ralph to go ahead. The job took two days and came out better than we had hoped. The gutters were formed on site, and the downspouts were built to each individual location. Ralph recommended an additional downspout on one especially long gutter run where the roof line had a wave in it.
We now have gutters that look like they were designed for the house. And we can SEE!