The profile on nine out of ten Wasatch Front homes, and the one we recommend unless the house tells us otherwise.
K-style gutters have a flat back that sits flush against the fascia and a front edge shaped like crown molding, which is why they look like part of the trim rather than a trough hung on the house. The shape holds more water than a half-round of the same width, takes hidden hangers screwed straight into the rafter tails, and is formed seamlessly on site from a coil of aluminum, steel or copper.
SwiftHand Gutters forms K-style in five-inch and six-inch on the truck in your driveway, so every run is one piece from corner to corner. It is the right choice for nearly every ranch, split-level, two-story and new build from Ogden to Provo, and it is what we install on most of our own crews’ homes.
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Capacity. A five-inch K-style gutter carries about 1.2 gallons per foot and handles roughly 5,500 square feet of roof per downspout in a typical storm. Six-inch carries about forty percent more and takes a three-by-four downspout. See five-inch vs six-inch for when to upsize.
Hangers. The flat back lets us use hidden screw hangers every sixteen to twenty-four inches, which hold far better in Utah wind and ice than the spike-and-ferrule nails on older systems. Nothing is visible from the street.
Materials. Most K-style is .032 gauge seamless aluminum in one of twenty-five baked-on colors. Steel K-style suits metal roofs and heavy sliding snow; copper K-style is rare but available for homes that want the profile with a lifetime metal.
Victorian, Craftsman and Tudor homes in the Avenues, Sugar House, Provo’s Tree Streets and Ogden’s East Bench often look better with half-round. Flat and low-slope commercial roofs usually need box gutters. Everything else, from a 1950s Murray rambler to a new build in Lehi, is a K-style job.
Five-inch K-style seamless aluminum runs $8 to $12 per linear foot installed, six-inch $10 to $14, with downspouts $100 to $175 each. Full ranges are on the pricing page.
Compare the rest of the family: K-style, half-round, box and fascia gutters, five-inch vs six-inch, aluminum, steel and copper, and gutter colors. Or start at the gutter types overview.
Yes. Ogee is the name of the decorative curve on the front of a K-style gutter; the terms are used interchangeably.
Usually with roof-mount straps or by adding a fascia board first. Fascia gutters are another option for exposed-rafter homes.
Twenty to thirty years in .032 gauge on screw hangers, longer with guards and regular cleaning.
Yes. Our truck-mounted machine forms each run to length in your driveway, so the only seams are at corners.
