Installation Guide

Installation Instructions

Optional Tools Needed: Ladder, Safety Goggles, Gloves, Tin Snips & Metal Bending Tool

• Ensure gutter system is clean and free of debris

• Inspect gutter hangers, ensuring:

- tightly fastened to fascia and attached to gutter

- minimum one hanger every 24 inches

• Install first Diamond Gutter Shield

at beginning of gutter run

• Measure 2 inches from end of Shield

• Cut and remove a notch from front and back edges

• Bend remaining 2 inch flap 90 degrees to create an end cap

• See illustrations #6 and 8 for details

• Insert Drip Foot (back edge) of Shield onto gutter hangers

• Ensure Drip Foot engages fully, sitting snug to back of gutter

• Lower the face of Shield onto the top of the gutter

• Shield should be approximately 1/4" longer than inside face of gutter

• See circled portion of illustration #4

• Flex the Shield slightly inward and engage front edge of Shield inside

gutter lip

• The flex will create a snug Pressure Fit with gutter lip

• *Option for high wind areas - add 1/4" galvanized screw through

punched holes

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Installation Instructions Optional Tools Needed: Ladder, Safety Goggles, Gloves, Tin Snips & Metal Bending Tool • Ensure gutter system is clean and free of debris • Inspect gutter hangers, ensuring: - tightly fastened to fascia and attached to gutter - minimum one hanger every 24 inches • Install first Diamond Gutter Shield® at beginning of gutter run • Measure 2 inches from end of Shield • Cut and remove a notch from front and back edges • Bend remaining 2 inch flap 90 degrees to create an end cap • See i
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• When installing each additional section, be sure to overlap the notched areas completely with previous section • Overlapping each Shield section keeps debris out and adds support to the completed Shield system • Gutter system corners require a butted mitre joint • Measure from back corner of gutter system to ensure correct length • Cut a 45 degree angle from the Drip Foot (back of Shield) to the Drip Lip (front of Shield), careful not to distort the profile of the Shield • At end of gutter run, add 2 in
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