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The roof sheds water; the ground under a Beaumont house has nowhere to put it. The Beaumont clay formation drains slowly, the water table is inches down in a wet year, and a pier-and-beam house with a crawl space stands directly in whatever the roof drops beside it. Gutters here are a foundation and a siding matter as much as a roof one.
A downspout ending at the skirting puts every rain into the crawl space, where it sits against sills and floor joists and breeds the rot a siding contractor finds later at the bottom course. Extend it, or drain it, but move it.
Water pooled at a slab edge in a wet month and gone in a dry one is the shrink-swell cycle that cracks slabs across the Gulf Coast. Consistent drainage away from the slab is the cheapest foundation work there is.
TWIA's windstorm-certification page lists “repair or replacement of gutters” among the improvements that do not require a Certificate of Compliance. So a gutter job in Nederland is a gutter job, with no inspection attached. That said, drip edge, which the gutter hangs beneath, is part of the roof's edge detail and is inspected as part of a re-roof, which is why a gutter replacement is easiest to schedule alongside one.
Applies in Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland, Port Neches and Groves. In Vidor, Orange, Bridge City and Lumberton there is no windstorm inspection requirement; see those city pages.
Seamless aluminum in 5-inch or 6-inch profile, with the 6-inch worth the small difference on a low-slope roof that dumps a lot of water at once in a Gulf downpour. Downspouts sized and placed to the roof area, not to where the old ones happened to be. Extensions or buried drains that carry water past the drip line and away from the piers. Guards where the live oaks and pines overhang, because a gutter full of needles is a gutter that overflows behind itself into the fascia. The fascia page is where that ends up.
No. Gutter repair and replacement are on TWIA's list of work that does not require a Certificate of Compliance.
Yes, and on a pier-and-beam house it is usually overdue. The fascia has to be sound enough to hang them from; if it is not, that is repaired first.
It is the convenient time, since drip edge is replaced during a re-roof and the gutter hangs from the same fascia. It is not required.
Say whether the house is on piers or a slab and where the water pools. A local contractor calls back.
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