Water Goes Where You Send It.

Atlas Roofing installs, replaces and repairs gutters, downpipes, rainheads and leaf guards across Hervey Bay and the Fraser Coast. Gutter systems are sized for Queensland summer downpour intensity rather than average rainfall, which is what prevents overflow into eaves and wall cavities.

Guttering is the most undersized component on a lot of Fraser Coast houses. A system that copes fine with steady rain will overflow in a summer downpour, and the water goes backwards into the eaves and down inside the wall cavity, where you will not see it until the cornice stains or the paint bubbles.

Rust is the other half of the story. Gutters hold water and debris against steel in a salt-air environment, which is close to a worst-case corrosion scenario. Once a gutter has rusted through at the low points, patching it buys you a season at best.

We size the system to the roof area feeding it and the rainfall intensity it actually has to handle, not to whatever was there before. That sometimes means bigger downpipes, more of them, or rainheads with proper overflow so that when the system is overwhelmed the water exits outside the building rather than inside it.