Six-inch and steel gutters, heat tape and snow guards for homes that see three hundred inches of snow.
Summit County is a different gutter job from the valley. Park City, Deer Valley, the Snyderville Basin, Jeremy Ranch and Promontory get three to four times the snow of Salt Lake, roofs are steep, metal roofs are common, and the ice that forms at the eaves in January can bend a light aluminum gutter flat. Many homes are second homes or rentals, so the system has to work without anyone watching it.
SwiftHand Gutters specifies mountain homes the way mountain builders do: six-inch gutters as the baseline, steel under metal roofs and on heavy-slide eaves, snow guards above the gutter line, self-regulating heat tape on gutters and downspouts with a sensor controller, and downspouts that discharge where melt will not refreeze on a walkway. We group Summit and Wasatch County work so mountain projects are not waiting on a valley schedule.
Projects Completed
Years Experience
Licensed & Insured
Year Warranty
Park City, Deer Valley, Snyderville Basin, Kimball Junction
Jeremy Ranch, Pinebrook, Summit Park, Promontory
Kamas, Oakley, Coalville, Francis
Snow load decides everything. A gutter on a Park City eave has to survive sliding snow off a steep or metal roof, the weight of the ice that forms when the roof melts and the air stays below freezing, and spring melt that moves more water in a week than a valley home sees in a season. That means six-inch profiles, .032 aluminum or steel, screw hangers on twelve to sixteen-inch centers, snow guards or fences above the gutter on metal roofs, and heat tape run in a zigzag along the eave and down every downspout.
Park City’s design-review districts and HOA communities such as Promontory, Glenwild and the Colony have color and profile rules, and many homes use dark bronze, black or copper to match timber and stone exteriors. We handle the approval paperwork and bring samples. Because the homes are often unoccupied in the shoulder seasons, we offer the maintenance plan with photo reports after each visit.
Pricing is the same across the county and is published on our pricing page. Every estimate is free, measured on site and itemized by the foot.
No. We group Summit and Wasatch County projects so mountain travel is built into the schedule, not into one customer’s bill.
We recommend steel or a heavy-gauge six-inch aluminum with snow guards above the gutter line. Light aluminum under a metal roof in Park City rarely survives more than a few winters.
Yes. Fall is the busiest season for heat tape in Park City, so we recommend booking by early October.
Yes. We prepare the color and profile submittal and have worked with most of the basin’s HOAs.
