If your home doesn’t have any gutters, you will sooner or later begin to notice the signs of water damage in and around your home. If you have a basement, you might be at risk for basement flooding. Depending on how your home is built, gutters could put a stop to much of the flooding. Without gutters, water can pour directly down from your roof onto your foundation. Small cracks and pores in the foundation of your home can let the water into your basement, which causes flooding.

Another sign of needing gutters is rotted or moldy siding. If your roof doesn’t have much of an overhang and no gutters exist, moldy or rotting siding is a critical sign that water isn’t getting far enough away from your house, rolling onto the sides of your home and becoming trapped behind the siding of your house, causing mold and rot.

Lastly, you may begin to notice signs of troughs in your landscaping or next to your foundation. If you notice deep divots in the ground next to your home or in your landscaping, that is a sign of the constant pouring of rain onto the ground from the height of your roof. This could mean serious trouble for your home’s foundation, as it causes structural issues for your home down the road.