Metairie is flat, and flat ground means gutters and downspouts have to do all the work of moving water away from the house.
Metairie is flat, and flat ground means gutters and downspouts have to do all the work of moving water away from the house. There is no slope helping, so when a downspout discharges right at the base of a wall the water sits there. On slab-on-grade housing that is water pooling against the slab edge, which is exactly where you do not want it.
Clearing the gutter runs is straightforward. The part that makes a difference in Metairie is checking that every downspout actually flows and discharges somewhere useful, because a clear gutter feeding a blocked downspout still overflows. We run water through after clearing rather than assuming it drains, and we will tell you where an extension would help.
This is the failure people do not expect. The runs get cleared, the gutter looks perfect from the ground, and it still spills over at the next heavy rain, because the blockage was never in the gutter. Debris migrates to the downspout opening and packs into the throat, where it is out of sight from above and from below.
Clearing the runs without checking the downspouts is why gutter cleaning sometimes seems not to have worked. We run water through every downspout after clearing and watch it discharge, which takes a few minutes and is the only way to know.
Metairie has very little natural fall, so nothing is helping the water get away from the building. A downspout discharging at the base of a wall on sloping ground sends water off down the slope. The same downspout here puts it in a puddle against the slab edge, where it soaks in and stays.
On slab-on-grade housing that matters, because the water is sitting exactly where you least want it. Extensions carrying discharge a few feet out from the wall are cheap and make a real difference, and we will point out where one would help rather than leaving you to work it out.
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