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.
- 1Adding more hangers
- 2Trying to lift the gutters and hammer them in tighter
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“with my limited knowledge I would still want to shrink that down significantly.”source ↗
Kill_Your_Masters · r/Roofing · 4 upvotes
Where this came up
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