{"id":57,"date":"2026-08-09T14:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/2026\/08\/09\/why-your-gutters-overflow-in-the-same-corner-every-autumn\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:17:28","slug":"why-your-gutters-overflow-in-the-same-corner-every-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/2026\/08\/09\/why-your-gutters-overflow-in-the-same-corner-every-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your gutters overflow in the same corner every autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is rarely leaves. It is almost always that one downspout is being asked to drain half a roof.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gutter capacity is a function of roof area, not house size. A long valley can funnel the runoff from two slopes into a single short run of gutter, and a standard three-by-four downspout simply cannot pass that volume in heavy rain. The water backs up, finds the lowest point, and comes over the front edge in the same place every time. Cleaning it out helps for a week. Sizing the outlet to the area actually draining into it fixes it permanently, and it is usually a small job on an existing gutter run.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is rarely leaves. It is almost always that one downspout is being asked to drain half a roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[22,21,14],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maintenance","tag-drainage","tag-gutters","tag-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-roofing-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}