Every page on this site

Everything published on Gutter Guards STL, newest first. This site covers St. Louis and the greater St. Louis area, and every page on it is written to be useful on its own rather than to lead somewhere. Keys Roofing is the contractor behind it and the phone number on every page reaches the Keys office directly.

A homeowner reading any one of these is usually part way through a decision and short of one specific fact. The list below says what each page answers, so you can go to the one you need instead of reading the site.

• Living With Gutter Guards, Honestly What maintenance actually looks like once gutter guards are fitted: what changes, what you still have to check, and how to tell a blinded screen from a clear one.
• Do Not Fasten New Gutter Guards to Rotten Fascia Learn how to check the fascia behind your gutters before paying for guards, and what should appear in the written scope.
• Ice Load and the Guard That Lifts Off Missouri freeze and thaw is what tears cheap gutter guards off the lip. What ice weighs, how a resting guard walks itself loose, and why fastening is the real specification.
• When a Gutter Guard Is Worth the Money The honest case for and against gutter guards on a St. Louis house: access, storey height and tree cover against the plain situations where a guard is a poor purchase.
• Micro-Mesh and Perforated Metal Guards How fine stainless micro-mesh and punched metal guards actually behave in St. Louis: aperture size, what blinds a screen, how they are fixed, and where each one belongs.
• How to Read a Gutter Guard Sales Pitch The standard moves in a gutter guard sales call, the phrases that should slow you down, and eight questions that produce a real answer instead of a brochure line.
• Reverse Curve and Surface Tension Guards How reverse curve and surface tension gutter guards are supposed to work, why a steep roof and a cloudburst defeat them, and what they look like from the pavement.
• Granules and the Age of Your Roof An asphalt roof sheds mineral granules for its whole life, heaviest when new and when it is failing. Why that decides whether a gutter guard is worth fitting this year.
• Screens, Foam and Brush Guards The cheap end of the gutter guard market examined: why drop-in plastic screens pop out, what fills a foam insert, and how brush inserts become the clog themselves.
• Maple Seed, Oak Catkins and the Spring Load Why spring debris in St. Louis is harder on a gutter guard than autumn leaf fall, what maple samaras and oak catkins do to a screen, and what to check in May.
• Water Behind the Gutter Is Usually an Edge Detail Problem Learn why water gets behind a gutter, what should cover the gap at the roof edge, and what must be fixed before guards are installed.
• What Is Under the Guard Decides Everything A gutter guard adds no capacity and no fall. What has to be right underneath first: trough size, pitch, hangers and the outlet, and what a guard hides when they are not.

Nothing on this site is advice about an insurance claim. Under RSMo 407.725 a roofing contractor in Missouri may not represent or negotiate a homeowner's claim, and may not offer anything about a deductible. What Keys does is document the damage, put a written scope with photographs and measurements in your hands, and attend as the contractor. You deal with your own insurer.