Barns, shops and equipment sheds
Long, plain eaves and wide roof planes are what a 7-inch box is made for. A farm building is the classic case: one simple roof, a lot of water and few good places for a downspout.
Hung box profile · formed at 7 inches
Square-Sided Box Gutters For Barns, Shops & Modern Homes
Box gutters, as we form them, are hung seamless troughs with straight sides and a flat floor, rather than the concealed box gutter built into an old cornice. Gutter Solutions LLC rolls them on site at 7 inches for long eaves and wide roof planes that swamp a house-size K-style.
- 7-inch box, formed on site
- Square face for clean lines
- Built for big roof planes
- Outlets and downspouts sized up
- Aluminum or copper
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Long building? We measure every eave and outlet.
- Formed at 7 inchesCapacity scaled with outlets
- Barns to storefrontsLong, simple roof planes
- Hung on the eaveNot built into the roof
- Written specificationOutlets and hangers listed
Hung, not built inMounted along the eave
White box gutters and a box downspout we hung on a two-story house and its porch.
Two different things
Hung box gutters versus the built-in kind
The name covers two very different things. On older churches, storefronts and historic houses, a built-in box gutter is a lined channel set into the roof edge or hidden behind the cornice. It is part of the roof, so relining one falls to a roofer, and Gutter Solutions LLC stays out of roofing.
The box gutters we install hang on the outside of the building instead. Each is a rectangular trough, straight on both sides and flat across the bottom, formed at 7 inches and fastened along the eave. It is measured, hung and pitched like the rest of our seamless installs.
Short answer
A hung box gutter is a square-sided, flat-bottomed seamless gutter mounted on the eave. It carries more water per inch of width than K-style or half-round, which suits big roof planes, farm and commercial buildings and modern homes.
Where it belongs
Where a box gutter looks right, and where it does not
The profile
Straight walls and a flat floor
Seen end-on, the box is close to a plain rectangle: a flat back against the fascia, a straight face with a hemmed top edge and a flat floor. With no curve to give up, nearly the whole cross-section carries water.
Aluminum
Most box runs are aluminum: light across long spans, rust-proof, and prefinished in colors that suit metal buildings as well as houses.
Copper
A copper box gutter is a statement piece on a modern house or a storefront, with soldered corners and a finish that darkens as it ages.
Steel
Stiff and dent-resistant, which appeals on farm buildings, but it depends on its coating. Near the coast, ask at your estimate whether it suits the site.
Need help choosing the metal? Read about gutter materials.
Compared
Box gutter vs. K-style
Most houses already wear the familiar K-style profile, so it is the fair comparison.
| Compared on | Box | K-style |
|---|---|---|
| Face | Straight and square | Molded ogee curve |
| Capacity | More per inch of width | Less than box, more than half-round |
| Widths we roll | One: 7 inches | Three: 6, 7 or 8 inches |
| Outlets | Larger, and more of them on long runs | Standard rectangular outlets |
| Best on | Big planes, farm and commercial buildings, modern homes | Most houses with traditional trim |
| Look | Clean, architectural, utilitarian | Reads like crown molding |
Guttering a warehouse, a shopping strip or an apartment block? Look at 7-inch D commercial gutters, or open the full four-profile comparison.
Planning a long run
How we lay out a box gutter system
With one width to work with, capacity comes from the layout. The inputs are the ones in our roof-area sizing guide.
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Measure the roof, not the wall
We work out the roof area that drains to each eave, including any upper roof that sheds onto a lower one.
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Place the outlets
A long eave, like the ones on poultry houses and onion sheds in Tattnall County, may need an outlet at each end and one in the middle, so water travels a shorter distance before it drops.
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Size the downspouts
The downspout is often the real bottleneck, so a box run gets downspouts matched to what the trough can deliver.
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Set pitch, hangers and joints
A 7-inch trough full of water is heavy, so the hangers go in closer together and the run is pitched to empty after the storm. On a very long eave, expansion joints at the high points let the metal move with the heat.
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Plan the discharge
On farm lots and paved sites, the water needs somewhere to go that will not wash out a drive or pool at a door. In 2024 Tropical Storm Debby washed out roads across Jeff Davis County, most of them dirt. Bare ground scours the same way under a downspout, so on farms around Hazlehurst discharge goes onto firm ground or into a buried line.
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Box gutter questions
Questions about box gutters
Still have a question? The quickest answer is a phone call, and we will talk it through with you.
(912) 202-0537No. A built-in box gutter is a lined channel inside the roof edge or cornice, found on older buildings, and it belongs to the roof. The box gutters we install hang on the eave like any other seamless gutter.
If your building has a built-in gutter that leaks, the repair is a roofing job, and we do not do roofing.
Then the answer is more outlets and larger downspouts rather than a bigger trough. Shortening the distance water travels to each outlet raises what the whole system can carry.
A warehouse, shopping strip or apartment block usually gets the 7-inch D commercial profile, with its outlets and downspouts sized up to match. Our commercial gutter installation service covers how those buildings are measured and phased.
On the right house, very. Modern homes, farmhouse-style new builds and houses with standing-seam roofs suit the square face. On traditional and historic homes, K-style or half-round usually looks more at home.
About as well as any open trough, which is to say they still fill up. The wide floor lets pine straw spread out rather than bunch at one spot, but the square inside corners hold grit, and a mat of wet needles over an outlet stops a box as surely as a K-style. Where pines or oaks hang over a box run, ask about a guard at the estimate.
Yes. A metal roof sheds its water fast and all at once, which suits a high-capacity trough. We plan the downspouts around doors, drive lanes and work areas so the discharge does not end up where people and equipment move. Equipment barns and shops across Bulloch County's onion country are typical candidates, and so are barns on the cattle and row-crop farms around Ludowici.
Free box gutter estimate
Big roof? Let us measure it properly
Tell us the building type and address. We will walk every eave, work out how many outlets the roof needs and write up the box system, hangers and downspouts included.
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