- (504) 305 0325
- 8400 Old Gentily Road New Orleans, LA 70127
- 529 Kelly St, Destin, FL 32541
- (850) 738 5188
GuttersTech installs and repairs gutters on the antebellum mansions of the Garden District, where complex multi-gable rooflines, box-gutter and cornice detailing, and a canopy of century-old live oaks make drainage a genuinely different job than a standard house. We also handle roofing, siding, and the rest of the exterior below. Request a free estimate or call to get on the schedule this week.
(Offer Ends September 30)
The Garden District sits on old, high ground along the natural river levee, and it shows: the neighborhood suffered little flood damage during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and saw close to a 100 percent resident return rate afterward, a rarity in this city. What the Garden District does face, storm or no storm, is its own tree canopy. The mature live oaks that line St. Charles Avenue and the interior streets are a documented, ongoing maintenance problem in their own right — recent years have seen century-old oaks fail from a combination of lightning strikes, termite damage, and drought-then-saturation cycles, not just wind, and even outside hurricane season that means a heavy, near-constant leaf and limb load on rooflines built well before anyone was thinking about gutter capacity.
That debris load lands on some of the most architecturally demanding rooflines in the city. Garden District mansions, built mostly between 1840 and 1900 in Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne styles, often carry slate roofing and ornate box-gutter or cornice detailing rather than a simple gutter run, and the Historic District Landmarks Commission's guidelines govern all of it — k-style gutters with built-in leaf covers, a natural request given the oak canopy, actually require full Commission review rather than staff-level approval, while in-kind slate repair and standard gutter replacement typically move faster. Underinsurance is a real risk here too: older homes with aging roofs can cost 20 to 40 percent more to insure than a comparable newer home, which makes a well-documented, well-maintained roof and gutter system a real underwriting asset, not just a curb-appeal one.
Our approach: we size box gutters and downspouts for real live-oak debris volume, work within HDLC's review process for leaf-guard requests instead of installing something that won't clear it, and treat slate and cornice detailing as the specialized work it is rather than a standard aluminum job.
GuttersTech handles the exterior trades that Garden District mansions need most, so a homeowner isn't separately researching what's allowed for the roof, the gutters, and everything in between.
Specialized repair for the ornate box-gutter and cornice detailing common on Garden District mansions.
Box gutter & cornice repair services →K-style and leaf-guard gutter systems sized for heavy live-oak debris, coordinated through HDLC review where required.
Gutter installation & guard services →In-kind slate repair and standing-seam metal work to HDLC's roofing guidelines for historic mansions.
Slate & metal roofing repair services →Scheduled around the Garden District's mature oak canopy, which sheds heavily well outside hurricane season.
Gutter cleaning services →Historic-appropriate siding and trim repair for 19th-century Greek Revival and Italianate mansions.
Siding installation & repair services →Repairing the wood rot and soffit damage a long-clogged box gutter can cause on complex historic rooflines.
Soffit & fascia repair services →Historic color-matched paint systems for Garden District mansions and carriage houses.
Interior & exterior painting services →Driveway, walkway, and carriage-house concrete work sized for large historic lots.
Concrete services →Custom patio and garden structure covers designed to complement Garden District architecture and HDLC review.
Patio cover installation services →Or fill up the form, our team will call you
Homeowners in the Garden District call us because we don't treat a 19th-century mansion's box gutters and cornice detailing like a standard aluminum job — we size systems for real live-oak debris volume, work within HDLC's Commission-review requirement for leaf-guard requests, and handle slate roof sections as the specialized material they are. We can walk through the underwriting benefit of a well-documented, well-maintained roof and gutter system for a homeowner weighing insurance costs on an older property. Our crews stand behind installation with a workmanship warranty. Please contact with us to be confirmed about specific warranty terms/years.
Real reviews and job locations from work completed across the Garden District.
No, not significantly. The neighborhood sits on old high ground along the natural river levee, suffered little flood damage in August 2005, and saw close to a full resident return afterward — its real recurring exterior risk is the tree canopy, not flooding.
Because k-style gutters with built-in leaf covers require full Historic District Landmarks Commission review rather than staff-level approval, even though they're a natural request given how much debris the neighborhood's mature live oaks shed.
Usually not without HDLC review, and it often isn't the right call structurally either — box gutters and cornice detailing on Garden District mansions are typically original architectural elements, and in-kind repair is generally preferred to full replacement.
It can. Homes with aging roofs and older systems can cost 20 to 40 percent more to insure than a comparable newer home, which is one more reason a well-maintained, well-documented gutter and roof system is worth the investment beyond curb appeal.
Yes. GuttersTech covers roofing, siding, soffit and fascia, painting, and concrete alongside gutters, and we build every component to HDLC's guidelines for historic mansions, not just the gutters.
