How close together should gutter hangers be?
Standard gutter installations often leave hangers too far apart—such as one every eight feet—causing the gutter to sag in multiple spots. Shrinking this spacing down significantly is necessary to secure the run properly, but beginners often lack the knowledge to know the exact correct installation method.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Adding more hangersDid this help you?
- 2Trying to lift the gutters and hammer them in tighterDid this help you?
- 3Cleaning out debris and caulking the guttersDid this help you?
- 4Leaving the gutters as-is to avoid high repair costsDid this help you?
- 5Considering a price reduction for the buyer instead of paying for professional replacement or cappingDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“with my limited knowledge I would still want to shrink that down significantly.”source ↗
“Both the ends of front and back the end of the guttering is sloping downwards. And at the back we have a section where it is sagging ( we think because of debris build up).”source ↗
“Ah right, I think the quote of 3k to cap it and 5k to replace has spooked me as that'd be a lot to either shell out or have taken off tje house price”source ↗