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The Villages / Sawgrass Grove / Citrus Grove
Citrus Grove sits just south of St. Catherine, a short golf car ride to Sawgrass Grove, with some designer homesites looking out on Southern Oaks Golf Club. We install gutters, guards and drainage for Citrus Grove’s block and frame homes, with a state-licensed home and building inspector on every job. Call or text (352) 440-3310.
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Citrus Grove’s homes went up around 2021, but they weren’t all built the same way. The cottage homes and many of the villas are frame construction with vinyl siding. The designer homes and courtyard villas are mostly concrete block and stucco. All of them have shingle roofs, and several came with builder gutters. What overflowing water does next depends on which wall it hits. Two homes on the same street, built the same year, can need two different fixes.
On block and stucco, overflow leaves streaks and splash stains you can see from the street. On a vinyl-sided frame home the damage is quieter. Water running down the face of the siding can work behind the laps and the trim, and water sheeting off the eave lands on the slab edge and the bed beside it. You may not notice anything until the paint on the trim starts to lift or the soil along the foundation washes low.
So the first thing we check on a frame cottage is pitch. A gutter that holds water in the middle will spill over the front in a hard rain, right onto the siding. We set each run to drain toward its downspout, hang it every two feet so it stays that way, and make sure the downspout lets out away from the slab, not beside it.
What it means for your gutters: a mix of vinyl-sided frame homes and block-and-stucco homes from the same build year, plus golf-view lots open to wind-driven rain. Citrus Grove gutters need to hold their pitch and drain away from the slab.
Citrus Grove is in District 13, which is still covered by the developer’s Architectural Review manual for Districts 13 through 16. That manual does not mention gutters or downspouts, and it says exterior changes need approval, so plan on an ARC application before new gutters go up. That is normal here and it is not a hurdle. We tell you up front, give you the color, profile and downspout layout the application asks for, and schedule the work once it is approved.
Rules get revised, so we check the current manual before we start. The manuals are posted on the District Government Community Standards page.
Here’s what we do for Citrus Grove cottages, villas and designer homes.
Some Citrus Grove designer homesites look out over Southern Oaks Golf Club. Open views mean open exposure. With nothing between the house and the fairway, summer storms drive rain sideways across the roof, and a gutter that handles a straight-down shower can be overshot when the wind pushes the water past the front lip.
On those homes we pay close attention to the back runs facing the course. A properly pitched seamless gutter with enough downspouts keeps up. Where the roof throws water hard at the corners, we add a splash guard. And we pipe the downspouts underground in solid PVC, about five feet from the foundation, so storm water doesn’t wash out the back lawn. The front of the house, which is more sheltered, usually needs less, and we’ll tell you if that’s the case on yours.
Call or text (352) 440-3310 or book online. Tell us what you are seeing: overflow at a corner, a run that sags, water at the slab, or just the leaves. If it is a mystery leak, we offer a $100 diagnostic visit that is credited toward the work.
Jeff notes whether your home is frame or block, checks every run for standing water with a level, and looks at the slab edge and siding below for signs of overflow. Then you get a straight answer, including when the right call is a cleaning or a small repair and nothing else.
Seamless .032 aluminum rolled on site, hangers every two feet, 316L stainless mesh where it earns its keep and solid PVC carrying water out about five feet from the house. Then we clean up, walk it with you and stand behind it with our lifetime no-clog guard warranty.
Premium Leaf Guards is run by Jeff Ours, a state-licensed home and building inspector and court-recognized construction expert with more than twenty years in the trade. He is on every job and does about half of every install himself.
That matters in Citrus Grove, where a frame cottage and a block designer home built the same year fail in different ways when the gutters overflow. An inspector knows what to look for on each and gives you an honest read on yours.
“The system is only as good as the installer. I like money, but I don’t try to sell you something you don’t need.”
Jeff Ours, owner
Plan on it. Citrus Grove is in District 13, which is still covered by the developer’s Architectural Review manual for Districts 13 through 16. That manual does not mention gutters or downspouts, and it says exterior changes need approval, so plan on an ARC application before new gutters go up. We help you put the application together and start once it is approved.
It can be. Water running down siding can get behind the laps and trim, and water dropping off the eave soaks the slab edge. You may not see it for a while. A gutter that holds its pitch and drains to a downspout keeps that water off the wall entirely. On a frame cottage, that’s the cheapest protection the siding and trim will ever get.
Sometimes. With nothing to block it, wind pushes summer rain across the roof and over the front of the gutter. On the side facing the course we check that the run is pitched right, has enough downspouts, and gets a splash guard where the corners take the hardest hit.
Not easier, just different. Stucco shows overflow fast as streaks and splash stains. Siding hides it longer, which can let the damage build. Either way the fix is the same: get the water into a gutter that drains and send it away from the foundation.
Away from the slab. We run solid PVC pipe underground and let the water out about five feet from the foundation, where it soaks into the lawn. We don’t use black corrugated pipe, because it crushes and clogs where you can’t see it. Solid pipe keeps working through every rainy season, and you never have to dig it up to find a clog.
It depends on the length of your roof line, the number of corners and downspouts, and whether you add guards or underground drainage. We price every job all in and the estimate is free. Call or text (352) 440-3310 and we will come look.
We work all over the villages around Sawgrass Grove. If you are visiting friends in a neighboring village, these pages are written for their homes:
See every village we serve near Sawgrass Grove, or our gutter services across The Villages.
We will look at your roof line, your gutters and where the water goes, and tell you what your Citrus Grove home actually needs. If that is nothing right now, we will say so.
