Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repair in East Palo Alto, CA

East Palo Alto Gutter Solutionists

Gutters for flat, low ground between the creek and the bay

East Palo Alto sits about 20 feet above sea level, bounded by San Francisquito Creek on one side and the bay marshes on the other. Most of its housing came after World War II, when farm parcels were cut into small lots: a third of today’s homes were built in the 1950s, and the median home dates to 1963. Older pockets go back further. Runnymede began in 1916 as the Weeks Poultry Colony, which is where Weeks Street gets its name, and Ravenswood grew around the old wharf at the foot of Bay Road, now Cooley Landing.

Flat ground is the gutter story here. Water that leaves a downspout has nowhere to run, so it pools next to the slab or the crawlspace vents and soaks the soil under the house. The city’s tree canopy is thin, so gutters here clog less from big leaf drops and more from grit, shingle granules, wind-blown litter and whatever one tree in the yard sheds. When a storm parks over the Peninsula, an undersized 1950s gutter overflows at the corners first. We clean by hand and flush every downspout, then extend or bury the lines so the water clears the house.

Eric Dodge owns The Brothers That Just Do Gutters Sunnyvale, and our crews work out of the Willow Avenue shop in Sunnyvale. In East Palo Alto we form seamless runs at the curb, replace leaking sectional gutters, rebuild soft fascia, install underground drainage and handle everything from University Village houses to the Westside apartment buildings near Woodland Avenue. Next door we serve Palo Alto and Menlo Park. California Contractor License No. 1123680.