Gutted about the Gutters

I was planning a few weekends off from working on the house after the skylight project. What was that, time off? Well yeah, dream on, because one morning last week I came outside to find that part of the front gutter had decided it was done with being attached to the house.

The gutter had been attached to the rafter tails and to the trim at the eaves with a number of screws.....we're speaking in the past tense because the timber had rotted out at several of the attachment points. Usually the remedy is to cut out the damaged wood and fill the void with automotive bondo...and then relocate the screw a few inches either side.

But....some of the damaged areas were bigger than others. Getting rid of the damage entailed cutting a large chunk off the end of the damaged board...and then doing that again (and again...) until an undamaged end-grain was exposed.

As you can see from the sky in these photos, it was blinkin' freezin' at the time and not at all what I wanted to be doing on the Saturday before Christmas. But the gutter wasn't going to rehang itself, so I fashioned several replacement pieces out-tut some scrap 2" x 6" lumber that was kickin' about int 'shop, and popped 'em in wit do-ins. I would have used the sithers, but I they wouldn't have been much help with this.
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Finally got the gutter attached to solid material. Great. Then it was back indoors to put t'ettle on.