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The Villages / Brownwood Paddock Square / Charlotte
Charlotte sits at the east end of District 9 along Charlotte Court, with designer homes, cottages, courtyard bungalow villas and cabana villas near the Charlotte Recreation pool. We install and repair gutters, guards and drainage for all of them, with a state-licensed home and building inspector on every job. Call or text (352) 440-3310.
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Charlotte has the widest mix of homes in this part of District 9: Iris, Begonia, Lily and Gardenia designer homes, Sand Dollar cottages, Bungalow Villas sold as courtyard villas, and Callaway cabana villas. The first homes closed in 2012, the villas followed in 2013 and 2014, and many of the villas back to a wall with very little side yard. That layout is pleasant to live in and hard to drain.
In a small courtyard, roof water from two or three directions lands in the same few square feet. With no gutter, or a downspout that empties onto the pavers, it pools against the slab, stains the walls and finds the lowest door. Behind the villa, a downspout aimed at the back wall puts water right where the wall footing and your foundation meet, with no room for it to soak in.
So on Charlotte villas we plan the route before we hang anything. We find where each downspout can go that is not against a shared wall or the privacy wall. When the honest answer is nowhere above ground, we carry the water in solid PVC pipe under the courtyard or side yard and let it out about five feet from the foundation. Never black corrugated pipe, which crushes and clogs. The gutters themselves are seamless .032 aluminum rolled on site and hung every two feet, but on a courtyard villa the route is what makes them work.
What it means for your gutters: tight courtyards, walls behind the villas and original roofs now being replaced. Charlotte homes need downspouts routed with a plan, and gutters put back right after a re-roof.
Charlotte spans District 9 and District 10. The current manuals for both say ARC approval is not required for gutters and downspouts on homes, courtyard villas and patio villas. You still need to match the look of the neighborhood, and anything beyond gutters and downspouts goes through review first.
Rules get revised, so we check the current manual before we start. If your project needs an application, we say so up front and help you put it together. The manuals are posted on the District Government Community Standards page.
Here is what we do for Charlotte homes, cottages and villas.
Charlotte’s roofs are reaching replacement age, and several resale listings note new roofs put on in 2025 and 2026. A re-roof is when gutters get hurt. The crew pulls them off or works around them, and they often go back up on the old screw holes, with the pitch off and the new drip edge sitting behind the gutter instead of over it.
When that happens, water runs behind the gutter and down the fascia instead of into it. You will not see it from the driveway. You see it later as staining down the fascia and the wall. If you have had a new roof, or one is on the calendar, we can check the gutters after the roofer leaves, re-hang them on fresh fasteners every two feet, or replace a run that got bent coming down. It is a short visit, and it is far cheaper than chasing a stain a year later.
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 traces where every downspout can drain without hitting a shared wall or privacy wall, and checks whether a recent re-roof left the gutters out of pitch or behind the drip edge. 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 Charlotte, where a courtyard villa, a cottage and a block designer home can sit on the same street and each drains differently. Jeff is licensed to inspect all of it, so he can tell you whether the problem is the gutter, the roof edge or where the water goes after it leaves the downspout.
“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
Charlotte is in District 9 and District 10, and the current Architectural Review manual says ARC approval is not required for gutters and downspouts on homes, courtyard villas and patio villas. The manual does not mention gutter guards by name, and anything beyond gutters and downspouts goes through review, so we check the current manual for your project before we start.
Usually forward, toward the street or open lawn, or underground. When there is no good spot above ground, we run solid PVC pipe below the courtyard or side yard and let the water out about five feet from the foundation, well clear of the back wall. We plan that route before we hang the first gutter.
Look at the beds on the other sides after a hard rain. If you see washed-out mulch, a trench under the roof edge or splash marks on the vinyl siding, the answer is yes. On frame and vinyl cabana villas that splash water can work behind the bottom of the siding, so we usually recommend gutters on the sides that face beds and walks.
Yes. After a re-roof, gutters often go back up on the old holes, out of pitch, or with the new drip edge behind them instead of lapping over the back of the gutter. Water then runs down the fascia. A quick look after the roofer leaves catches it before it stains the wall or loosens the run.
Yes. District Government lists Charlotte in both District 9 and District 10, and we serve the whole village. The homes along Charlotte Court, north of Hillsborough Trail, are on the District 9 side. Gutters, guards and drainage work the same way on either side of that line, and so does our estimate.
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 Brownwood Paddock Square. If you are visiting friends in a neighboring village, these pages are written for their homes:
See every village we serve near Brownwood Paddock Square, 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 Charlotte home actually needs. If that is nothing right now, we will say so.
