GUTTERS · BERGEN COUNTY, NJ
Gutter Installation & Replacement in Bergen County, NJ
We install new seamless gutters and replace systems that have reached the end of their life, sized to the roof that feeds them and formed on site. We do not repair gutters and we do not clean them.
- NJ Home Improvement Contractor Registration #13VH11535000, licensed and insured
- GAF Certified, 5.0 stars from 115 Google reviews
- 15+ years and 5,000+ projects, serving all of Bergen County
- 10-year workmanship warranty on every gutter system we install
Most Gutters Fail By Design, Not By Neglect
Most gutter calls start the same way. Water sheets over the front edge in an ordinary rain. There is a stripe of splashed mud up the siding, or a soft spot has shown up in the fascia board, or ice built at the eave last winter and the whole run came loose. The homeowner assumes the gutter is clogged or has worked its way off the house. Sometimes it has. More often the gutter is doing exactly what a gutter that size, hung that way, on a roof that big was always going to do, and the honest answer is new gutter installation rather than one more cleaning.
A gutter system is a drainage calculation attached to the edge of a building. Roof area, pitch, gutter size, hanger type and spacing, fall to the outlet, downspout count, and where the water is finally discharged all have to work together, and the whole assembly depends on sound fascia and a drip edge set correctly behind it. Top Roof installs new seamless gutters and replaces failed gutter systems across Bergen County. We do not repair, reseal, re-pitch or re-hang existing gutters, and we do not clean them. That is a deliberate limit, and the rest of this page explains the reasoning behind it.
THE MEASUREMENT
Roof Area and Pitch Decide the Gutter Size
Every run of gutter drains a defined piece of roof. That is the first thing we measure: the square footage feeding the run, the pitch that water comes off, and how many valleys dump into it. Two valleys converging above a single ten foot run is a completely different problem from a long, low, uninterrupted slope, even though both look like ordinary gutter from the driveway.
Pitch matters more than most homeowners expect. A steep roof delivers the same volume of water in less time and with more momentum, so at the bottom of the slope the water tends to shoot straight over the front lip. A low pitch roof releases it more gradually, which is easier on the trough but spreads the load over a longer run. Standing water sitting in the trough for days after a storm is a separate issue, and it comes from fall, not from the pitch of the roof.
Then there is size. Most houses in Bergen County were hung with 5-inch K-style gutter and 2×3 downspouts, and on a modest ranch or a small colonial that is usually the right call. On a large roof, a steep roof, or a run fed by converging valleys, it is not. A 6-inch K-style gutter carries roughly 40 percent more water than a 5-inch, and a 3×4 downspout moves roughly twice what a 2×3 does. We still find 4-inch gutter on older homes here, often with a single downspout serving the entire front of the house, and almost always with rot in the fascia directly behind it.
When a run is undersized, cleaning changes nothing. Nothing can be tightened or sealed to make a gutter hold more water. The gutter is full before the storm is over and the overflow goes down the fascia and the siding. People clean those gutters twice a year for a decade and never understand why they still overflow. The gutter is not dirty. It is too small.
THE MATERIAL
Seamless Aluminum, Hangers, and Fall to the Outlet
Sectional gutter is bought in ten foot lengths and joined with slip connectors and sealant every ten feet. Every one of those joints is a leak waiting on time. Aluminum expands and contracts through a North Jersey year, the sealant works loose, and the drip comes out at the seam and lands on the fascia or runs behind it into the sheathing. One weeping seam is a bad joint. Four or five along the same run means the joints are not failing, the design is.
Seamless gutter is formed on site. We bring a coil of aluminum and a forming machine to your house and roll out one continuous piece for the entire run, corner to corner, so a forty foot run is a single forty foot piece. The only joints in the finished system are at corners and outlets, where they can be sealed properly and where there are far fewer of them to begin with. Aluminum is the right material for this in a North Jersey climate: it does not rust, it takes a baked-on finish, and it is light enough to hang without loading the fascia. It also dents, and it does not un-dent, which is one more reason a run with fewer joints and fewer fasteners holds its line for longer.
How the gutter is held up matters as much as what it is made from. Spike and ferrule was the old method: a long nail driven through the front lip into the fascia. Wood moves, the nail backs out, and the run sags between fasteners. You can usually see whether you have it from the driveway by looking for nail heads spaced along the front of the gutter. We hang with hidden hangers screwed into the fascia, spaced tighter on north facing eaves and low slope runs where snow and ice sit, because a gutter full of ice weighs far more than a gutter full of water.
A gutter is also not level. It needs fall toward the outlet, on the order of a quarter inch over ten feet, enough to drain completely and not so much that it reads as crooked from the street. A dead level run holds standing water, grows sediment, and freezes solid. A run that falls the wrong way delivers everything to the corner farthest from the downspout.
THE WATER
Downspouts, Discharge, and the Fascia Behind the Gutter
A gutter only buys you time. The downspout is what actually removes the water. Downspouts get counted and sized for the run they drain, not placed wherever the corner happens to be convenient. One outlet every thirty to forty feet of run is a reasonable starting point, and we add outlets when the roof area or the pitch says to. A single downspout on a long run creates a slow moving column of water that backs up at the far end in every heavy rain.
Where the water lands is part of the design, not an afterthought. Follow your own downspouts to the ground. A leader ending in a splash block two feet from the house is putting the entire roof into the soil against your foundation, and that is the damp basement corner, the settled walkway, the cracked stoop. The gutter above it can be perfect and the problem stays. We route leaders and extensions so water leaves the house, and we avoid dumping an upper run onto a lower roof section where it will overload the gutter below it and chew through shingles.
Behind all of it is the fascia and the drip edge. The leg of the drip edge has to land inside the back wall of the gutter. An inch the wrong way and every rain runs behind the gutter instead of into it, and the fascia takes it. If the fascia has gone soft, there is nothing solid to screw a hanger into, and new gutter hung on bad wood will sag exactly where the old gutter sagged. You can test it yourself: if you can push a screwdriver into the board behind the gutter, that is your answer. If we find rot when we are out there, we will show it to you and tell you plainly what it means for the job, rather than hanging new gutter over it and calling it done.
If the roof has no drip edge, or the shingles were cut short at the eave, water wicks back underneath and runs behind the gutter no matter how well the gutter itself is built. That is a roofing condition rather than a gutter condition. We will tell you plainly which one you have, and if it is the roof, roof repair is the honest answer instead of new gutter.
ON THE JOB
Gutter guards going on in Bergen County
Guards fitted over the gutter so leaves and needles stay on top and water goes through. Click either photo to enlarge.
WHAT WE DO
The Four Gutter Jobs We Do
Seamless Gutter Installation
For a house with no gutters, a new addition, or a roof edge where water has never been managed. We measure the roof area and pitch feeding each run, specify the gutter and downspout size off that measurement, and form the run on site as one continuous piece. Hidden hangers screwed into solid fascia, correct fall to the outlet, and outlets placed where the water actually collects. Installing new gutters at the same time as a new roof is encouraged.
Full Gutter Replacement
The old system comes off completely: gutters, downspouts, spikes, hangers, straps and hardware. Nothing old gets reused, and we do not splice new sections into an old run. With the eave open we look at the fascia and the drip edge and show you what is there before anything new goes up, because new gutter hung on rotted wood fails the same way the old gutter did. Then a new seamless system sized to the roof it serves. The finished system carries our 10-year workmanship warranty.
Gutter Guards
Bergen County is full of mature oaks and maples, and an open gutter under them collects everything that falls. We install guards on a new or replacement system, and on sound existing gutters as a job of their own. We are straight about the limit too. A guard on an undersized run still overflows, because volume was never the problem a guard solves.
Guards are priced on site rather than over the phone. The number comes off the linear feet of gutter the guard actually covers, and downspouts are not part of that measurement, so it is not something anyone can quote you honestly without measuring the runs first.
Downspouts and Leaders
The trough only collects the water. The leaders decide where it ends up. Adding a downspout to a long run or carrying a leader farther from the house is installation work, and we will do it on gutters that are otherwise sound as well as on a new system. We place downspouts where they will not dump onto a walkway or a flower bed, and we carry the discharge far enough out that it is not soaking the foundation you are trying to keep dry. Extensions and splash points are part of that conversation at the estimate.
OUR LIMIT
Why a New System Instead of a Patch
Top Roof does not repair gutters. We do not reseal seams, patch holes, re-pitch runs or re-hang sagging sections, and we do not clean gutters or clear clogs. Those are not services we sell at any price.
The reason is simple. Almost every gutter failure we get called about is a design failure or a substrate failure, and a patch leaves the cause sitting right where it was. Resealing a joint on an undersized run buys a season. Driving a new fastener into rotted fascia gives you a new fastener in bad wood. Re-pitching a section that overflows because the roof above it is too big for 5-inch gutter changes nothing at all. There are two honest answers at the eave: replace the gutter, or leave it alone.
The useful part of that limit is that it takes the sales pressure out of the visit. There is no cheap fix for us to talk you into and no expensive one to talk you out of. Either the system has life left, in which case we say so and leave, or it does not, in which case we measure and give you a number. If what you want is cleaning or patching, a gutter maintenance company is the right call, and we will tell you that rather than take the work.
These are the symptoms that usually point to replacement:
- Overflowing in an ordinary rain, including right after the gutters were cleaned
- Stains, peeling paint, or a soft spot in the fascia directly behind the gutter
- Sections sagging between hangers or visibly pulling away from the house
- Seams that have already been sealed more than once
- Splash lines on the siding or eroded mulch and soil in a straight line under a run
- Ice building at the eave and the run dropping over the winter
- One downspout serving a long run, or a leader discharging against the foundation
Ice deserves one note of its own. Ice dams come from heat loss and ventilation, and no gutter prevents one. What the gutter does is show you where the problem lives and then pay for it, because a trough full of ice bends the front lip, opens seams and pulls hangers out of the fascia. If one eave ices every January, the gutter on that eave will be finished years before the rest.
One more thing worth being direct about. On a roof job, our crews do not touch your existing gutters. We will not re-hang them, reseal a seam or re-secure a loose hanger, because adjusting a system that is already at the end of its life does not make it sound, and it blurs who is responsible for it afterwards. Gutters are always a separate job with a separate price, quoted separately at the same visit.
What we do encourage is new gutters installed at the same time as a new roof. That is installation, and it is the cleanest sequence: the eave is already open, the drip edge goes on set for the gutter that is coming, and the new gutters are hung to the new roof rather than fitted around it. You can see the kind of work we do on our completed projects.
QUESTIONS WE GET
Gutter questions from Bergen County homeowners
No. Top Roof installs new seamless gutters and replaces failed gutter systems. We do not reseal seams, patch holes, re-pitch runs or re-secure loose sections. Nearly every failure we are called about traces back to gutter size, hanger spacing, fall to the outlet, or rotted fascia, and a patch leaves that cause in place. If you call us about failing gutters, we will tell you honestly whether replacement is warranted, and if the system has life left we will say that too.
No. We do not offer gutter cleaning or any kind of gutter maintenance, and a gutter maintenance company is the right call for that. One thing worth knowing before you book it: if a run overflows even when it is clean, cleaning was never going to fix it. That is a sizing, pitch or capacity problem, and it is a replacement question.
No. Our roofing crews do not touch existing gutters on a roof job. We do not re-hang, reseal or re-pitch a system somebody else installed. Gutters are a separate job with separate pricing. If your gutters are at the end of their life, the best move is to install new ones at the same time as the roof replacement, so the drip edge and the new gutters go on in the correct sequence in one visit.
By the roof, not by preference. We measure the square footage feeding each run, the pitch it comes off, and whether valleys converge above it. 5-inch K-style with 2×3 downspouts handles most modest Bergen County homes. Large roofs, steep roofs, and runs fed by converging valleys usually need 6-inch with 3×4 downspouts, which carry roughly 40 percent and roughly twice the volume respectively. Undersized gutter overflows no matter how clean it is.
Sectional gutter comes in ten foot lengths and is joined with connectors and sealant every ten feet, so every joint is a future leak as the aluminum expands and contracts through the seasons. Seamless gutter is formed on site from a coil, producing one continuous piece for the whole run. The only joints are at corners and outlets. Every gutter we install is seamless aluminum formed on site, including the gutters we hang on our residential roofing jobs.
Top Roof gives a 10-year workmanship warranty on every gutter system we install. That covers our work: the hangers and how they are fastened, the pitch and fall to the outlets, the sealed joints at corners and outlets, and how the system is tied in behind the drip edge at the eave. It is also part of why we install rather than adjust. We can stand behind a system we built from the fascia out; we cannot stand behind somebody else’s hardware that we only tightened. Top Roof LLC is licensed and insured in New Jersey under Home Improvement Contractor Registration #13VH11535000, and the warranty terms are on your estimate before you sign anything.
Price depends on total footage, gutter size, the number of downspouts and outlets, guards, and access around the house, so we give a written price after measuring. Financing is available through Wisetack, including 0% for 24 months for qualified homeowners, subject to credit approval. Note that our $1,000 off promotion, which runs through November 30, 2026, applies to full roof replacements only and does not apply to gutter work.
FREE ON-SITE ESTIMATE
Get a Gutter System Sized to Your Roof
We will measure the roof area feeding each run, look at the fascia and drip edge behind the existing gutters, and give you a written price for a new seamless system, quoted separately from any roofing work. The estimate is free, and every system we install carries a 10-year workmanship warranty. If the gutters have life left, that is what we will say, and if what you actually need is roof work rather than gutters, we will say that too.
Call 201-989-0999 or schedule an estimate online. Top Roof LLC, 4 W Palisade Ave #1206, Englewood, NJ 07631. NJ Home Improvement Contractor Registration #13VH11535000, licensed and insured, GAF Certified, serving all of Bergen County. Financing is available through Wisetack, including 0% for 24 months for qualified homeowners, subject to credit approval.