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Designing your garage often comes with a host of important decisions. Do you want a double car garage? A triple? Are you attaching it to your house, if so, where will it be located? But the question that many fail to address before building, is whether or not they should add a garage gutter. Most people ensure their homes have gutters but they fail to recognize the importance of their garage and neglect key considerations.

Going “gutterless” isn’t recommended for a few reasons:

Gutters Protect Your Home Value

In the absence of gutters, water can pour off the roof from every corner of a detached garage. If your garage is close to your house, this might lead to a home disaster. Water pouring from the garage roof can leak into unwanted places, such as your basement, patio, deck and siding.

Gutters Conserve Your Garage Foundation

During continual downpours, your garage will develop a “trench line” without a gutter system. Trench lines move soil away from your garage, exposing your foundation and allowing water to seep into your foundation. The cost to repair mild to severe foundation damage can be quite high, and can be mitigated if damage is avoided in the first place. Gutters help to decrease the damage of trench lines, protecting your foundation, garage and driveway.

Gutters Help You Stay Dry

On a rainy day, a garage without gutters means that you’ll take an unwanted shower when your enter or leave. Even worse, without gutters water can easily seep beneath the door and leak into the garage. Damaged property can put a serious dent in your bank account (especially if you’re not covered by insurance).

Gutters Protect Landscaping

If any landscaping is located near your garage, gutters can assist with keeping things in mint condition. Without gutters, water will pour off the roof and drown anything below it. This puts your beautiful garden or shrubbery at risk! Safeguard your efforts and preserve your gardening projects from harm with gutters.

Ready to Get Started?

Remember that your garage is almost as essential to you as your home. If you’re proactive about keeping it in good condition, you’ll save yourself significant time and money (not to mention, you’ll minimize serious risks and hazards).

Your perfect garage is waiting right round the corner. Contact us today to design your very own VersaTube garage or call us at 888-758-6640.