A-M Aluminum Gutter Guard 5" (23 Feet, Mill Finish)

These are not compatible with that style according to our testing today. A word of caution to buyers. You can see a gap in the gutter guard that's there because I was pushing it down over a nail/ferrule. In the process of deciding if I want to return the product or switch from bracket mounts to the bracket style mounts I have now.

Kenna Bush

| Dec 10, 2020

This is where the "but" comes in. There is nothing good about the design of these gutter guards! The way in which they are formed creates a valley for debri to collect, preventing water from flowing through and I didn't realize it until after I had installed them. As I understand it, the purpose of a gutter guard is keep debris from your gutter and these ones do a pretty decent job of it. Even with these installed, a person would still need a blower or leaf blower extension to clean the nozzles! These are inferior to what I thought they would be, so I bought them in error. In any case, I would have bought the cheap plastic ones that you can find at any home improvement store if I had known debris would get stuck on the outside of the guard. My goal is to replace these before the fall and replace them with a different type. It's outrageous how much money is wasted on this. As long as you don't have many trees on your property, these gutter guards will do the job.

Alice Farrell

| Jun 21, 2021

I just installed 50' of these A-rated panels and I am a 60 y/o woman I have gutter guards that are 6" in diameter on my 5 " gutters. Finished installing the gutters (without any help from anyone) in about 3 hours without the help of anyone The columns were installed in 4 hours. They fit perfectly, although I had to bend the back of them in a few places to make them sit properly (due to my gutters being uneven). Once installed, it seems to really strengthen the gutters by strengthening the side that goes against the drip edge. The length/side that goes against the drip edge was easy to bend by hand, but the entire guard was sturdy With this box of 50', I was able to get my overall length of 50'. In each 4' piece, there is about an inch of overlap at the end, so it is not necessary to add additional inches/footage to account for the overlap (in other words, the 50' boxes covered 50' of gutter including about an inch of had gutter guards installed on my front gutters for a few hundred dollars, and recently I needed to get on a ladder due to other reasons and noticed how poorly the installation was done (I used another guard, but very similar to this one). My back gutter guards had already been removed and reinstalled properly after I removed each piece and reinstalled it. I already knew what tools I would need in order to install them. It was found that using a scratch awl and a lot of patience could provide results It was necessary to use a hammer to help start the screws, mostly on the drip edge side of the guard, which is not pre-installed It is not pre-punched/drilled (this is my only complaint about the product. It would have been helpful to have had holes drilled or at least an indentation, and I would have given it 5 stars. PRESENTLY, there are pre-recorded messages We drilled holes every couple of inches along the outer edge of the gutter on the side that lays near the top. With the exception of a scratch awl, nothing else will be needed As far as I can tell, these worked perfectly on the gutter edge, and most of them on the drip edge. It turns out that nothing about my gutters is even, which caused me to use a 1" screw in a few places. The 'outside' might be able to be attached to the gutter edge if you slide one side under the shingles and secure it that way, but I couldn't do it that way. A screw was used to secure both sides. I put more screws in to ensure they lay flat than you need, but you would probably be fine with four screws per section. It's hurricane season, and we're in a hurricane zone. As long as the gutters are installed properly, I can't think that leaves or anything else could possibly make their way inside, apart from perhaps very small debris. Occasionally, leaves will build up on the guards, as it seems to be the case with most of them, but they can easily be brushed away. In our extensive research on gutter guards, we found that none appear to be as perfect as the others. I still like these because they were just the right price, easy to work with, and fit my 5 perfectly. These gutters are sturdy and have a diameter of 5". Although I wouldn't expect they will have to be removed to clean whatever might make its way into the gutters anytime soon, only There is no end to the amount of leaves falling from the oak trees that surround my home 24/7/365, and the similar guards that I have on the front of my house have managed to keep the leaves out despite a poor installation. Thus, I expect the guards to do the same or better than what they did before. Corners must be mitered as per the instructions in the box. It's easy to do, and the tin snips handle it easily.

Aubrey Rice

| Jul 31, 2020

My husband and I purchased this for installation on our South Carolina home. Fast shipping on this item. In order to install the machine, I bought a couple of boxes of Aluminum self-tappers. I used a piece of cardboard to make a 45 degree template to mark and cut the corners. It's pretty straightforward. In addition to cutting the corners, I left an overlapping tab that I could use to screw the two pieces together to provide more support. The covers fit well into my gutters and adjusted well to areas where my gutters were a little bent (caused by cleaning them out using a ladder). the materials I needed and contacted the seller, who promptly contacted me back to send me a separate shipment of the additional materials I needed, and the additional materials arrived within a short time as well. I experienced some issues when I installed these guards that I did not have before. would face these problems regardless of what gutter guard I In comparison to other places, here we usually get torrential downpours when it rains. It has been raining steadily for several days. In the following, I noted the problems I encountered and provided solutions. 1) Heavy downpours caused the rain to skim across my gutter guard and shoot out onto the ground in the valleys around my house. from happening, I formed and installed splash guards on the outside of the gutter to redirect the water and keep it in the gutter during periods of heavy rain. It affects the areas where there are no splash guards. (It had splash guards on a couple of distant valleys, but this issue was created by the absence of The solution that I used to counter this issue was to drill additional holes into the gutter guard near the splash guards with a 1/8" drill bit. Up until now, this has done away with the overflow issue. I have installed a few different types of gutter guards on a few different houses, and these seem to be the best ones I have so far installed. My neighbors have also recommended these to me.

Hadlee Becker

| Jun 13, 2021