Any advantage to upgrading to 6 inch gutters vs. 5 inch?

[Anonymous]

I don't know, we just did a roof and gutter replacement and none of the 3 quotes we got suggested 6". But maybe it's due to our roof pitch? It's a bungalow, so maybe not as pitched as it could be. Anyway, we had 4" previously, so the 5" are already a big improvement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no reason in the world to use 6"

6" is what they use on large apartment buildings.

I'm a builder. Have built 2 houses for myself and used 5" both times. Don't waste your money.

I'M a custom builder also...have 6" on my own home and for every project we do. The cost is marginal and
most builders always just use the cheaper 5" - even on large 10K sq ft homes. Not smart building IMO.

[Anonymous]

We have 5 gutters and they do fine except in the front of our house (right above the front door/stoop) the two roof lines intersect at a 90 degree angle, and when it rains hard a sheet of water cascades over the corner down to the front stoop. We've had our gutters checked/cleaned and it still happens. Our roof pitch is not unusually high. So my takeaway is simply that there ARE circumstances when a 6" gutter is worth the incremental cost. In our case a diverter would have only captured more leaf debris and traded one problem for another - the upgrade to the front gutters made sense. But the side and back of our house has 5" gutters.

[Anonymous]

I totally wish my last 2 houses had larger gutters. They do a much better job of collecting and moving water. My first house did have larger gutters and I thought that size was “standard”. Boy was I wrong about that…

[Anonymous]

Upgrade to 6.