The downspout is an essential part of a gutter system that guides water and debris away from the home. It's vital all year ...

Not using a downspout with an extension can cause serious problems for your house, particularly if you live in a rainy or ...

As the chill of fall starts creeping in, you’ll want to prepare your home for even colder, wetter days ahead. This week, we offer a few steps to weatherize the outside of the home. Next week, we’ll ...

A reader recently offered yet another solution for keeping woodpeckers from drilling holes in wood siding. He said he tried the usual solutions without success, including plastic owls that some ...

Gutters and downspouts can be redirected from draining roof runoff directly onto paved surfaces or into storm water systems or ditches to reduce runoff from the property while also reducing on-site ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Necessity is often the mother of invention. That’s how Tom ...

April showers not only bring May flowers but usually gutter problems as well. Gutters serve as conduits to direct rainwater off the roof of a structure and into downspouts, the vertical gutters that ...

John Tredennick put his mind in the gutter and came up with a patented invention designed to save homeowners a headache. Tredennick is the brains behind the Clip Stand, a plastic apparatus that ...