Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repair in Ladera Ranch, CA

Ladera Ranch Gutter Solutionists

Gutters for Ladera Ranch homes in their second and third decades

Ladera Ranch is young by Orange County standards. Construction on the 4,000-acre planned community began in 1999 on part of Rancho Mission Viejo, then the largest working ranch left in the county. Census estimates date 83 percent of today’s homes to 2000 through 2009, and the median house was built in 2005. That puts most Ladera homes at 17 to 26 years old, the age when sealant at gutter corners dries out, end caps start to drip and hangers work loose. The community is split into nine villages, each with neighborhoods by different builders, so rooflines and trim colors change from one street to the next.

Rain follows the South County pattern. Mission Viejo 1.3 SSE, the NOAA station about three miles from Ladera, has a 1991 to 2020 normal of 15.25 inches a year, with January and February averaging 3.47 and 3.69 inches. Ladera sits in the Saddleback foothills with open canyon land around it, so fall winds push dry leaves and grass into the gutters. CAL FIRE maps about 15 percent of the community as a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone and 49 percent as High. For homes that back onto open space, BroGuard micro-mesh keeps dry leaves out of the trough and lets the winter rain through.

Sara Baayoun owns The Brothers That Just Do Gutters Irvine, and our crew works every Ladera Ranch village, from Bridgepark and Township to Echo Ridge and Avendale. We form seamless aluminum, copper and bonderized steel on site in HOA-approved colors, clean by hand, reseal and repair leaks, replace soft fascia and add underground drainage where a tight side yard or a slope behind the house needs a better path for the water. About 74 percent of homes here are owner-occupied, and landlords get the same free written estimate. The same crew covers Mission Viejo just to the west.