We spent this gorgeous spring Sunday re-hanging the 36& #39; gutter over our garage. It was a bit of an epic, since we have K-Guard leaf-free gutters - @dfredder helped us get the gutter up, then we tackled the guard on our own. One exciting but minor fuckup later, it is DONE!

We had the gutters installed back in 2009 by the local K-Guard franchise, and never having to clean them out has been _great_! Unfortunately, tho, when we had our house painted a month ago, we found water damage over the garage - so it had to come down.

Getting the original installer to do it was out of the question. Their warranty required that they dismount and remount the gutters; we tried for literally six weeks to get them out last fall but they kept ghosting us. Spent so long chasing them, we missed our window to paint!

So when we finally had the painters come out this spring, we were hoping we could just leave the gutters up... which is when they found the water damage. Only over the garage, fortunately - and apparently caused by poor workmanship when we had our roof replaced last summer.

We had the painters repair the damage so they could finish painting. Then had the roofer come out and re-do that section of roof so it doesn& #39;t happen again! All of has been going on for the entire past month… and this was the last bit of work to have it all put back together.

So it& #39;s been a great work-on-the-house weekend here - in retrospect, might have been nice not to tackle the big gutter day immediately after our big take-stuff-to-the-dump day. (My shoulder would like to lodge a complaint.) But I will sleep well tonight!