Best Way To Cut A Metal Gutter

Discard the scrap pieces.

Best way to cut a metal gutter.

Pull the tape measure along the length of metal gutter and mark the length you need to cut the gutter with the carpenter s pencil. Beginning where you marked cut all the way down to the bottom side with metal shears. You can bend the gutter slightly to easily make the rest of the cut all the way around to the other side. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter.

Be careful when using metal shears to not cut yourself and hold the gutter steady. Cut along the marked line you placed on the aluminum gutter starting at the flange turning inward toward the opening of the aluminum gutter. Fit the miter saw with a carbide tipped finish blade for cutting through metal but this is the fastest and most efficient tool for cutting through any type of gutter material. Make sure to seal the drop outlet to the gutter with seam sealer.

Step 2 rest the base of the carpenter s square against the top edge of the metal gutter and align the blade of the square with the pencil mark you placed on the gutter in step 1. Cut the front and back sides with tin snips. Cut from your notch around the downspout with your snips. Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade.

You can cut out the larger hole with a tin snips or you could use an oscillating multi tool equipped with a metal cutting blade. Gutter material also can be cut with a chop saw or sabre saw but be sure to wipe the steel filings from the painted surface. Hot metal chips will fly everywhere. Insert the drop outlet in the hole and fasten the new downspout with sheet metal screws.

It s much easier to join sections on the ground than to work from the top of a ladder. Cut up each corner from your first cut to the next mark with your tin snips. Bend the gutter and cut the bottom. Cut to the far corner around the other side being sure to hit your other mark and around the back to the far side of the notch.

Miter saws are the most common tool used for cutting gutters especially metal and plastic gutters. Instead of butting parts together and covering the joints with a seam cover as recommended by the manufacturer lap all seams from two to four inches. You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. Cut metal with your circular saw.

It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool. Or you can cut around to the bottom side stop flip the gutter over and continue cutting from the other side until you meet the other cut in the middle.