Green Copper Gutters

Copper is resilient but it corrodes that s the green patina in action and a great way to make your copper gutters corrode faster is by allowing leaves and other tree debris to trap moisture inside the gutter.

Green copper gutters.

Understanding copper gutter oxidation. If not protected the copper will weather and turn brown very quickly and the distinctive copper look is lost. We have a lot of pictures there and be sure to. Although we don t have any process to speed up the greening effect of gutters we do indeed install copper gutters.

But if patina isn t your thing you can keep copper gutters and downspouts shiny and warm colored by putting a protective coating on them each year and polishing them with a solution made for copper. Green gutters gutter systems the home depot store finder. Maybe one day someone s copper patina gutters will make you green with envy. Copper gutters and downspouts get an elegant blue green patina as they age thanks to the magic of oxidation.

You will never have to paint them. If you are ever interested in seeing how copper gutters look on a house head over to our houzz page. When copper gutters are first installed they look like a shiny new penny. It takes many years for copper to turn green and many people think brown copper just looks like painted metal.

Over time the copper metal interacts with the air and ambient moisture. This interaction causes oxidation and as the copper gutters age they will slowly form a green patina similar to the green color of the statue of liberty.