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The Villages / Spanish Springs Town Square / Hacienda
Hacienda is built around Hacienda Hills Country Club on Morse Blvd, a 27-hole championship course with water on 14 of its holes. We install gutters, guards and drainage for Hacienda homes, with a state-licensed home and building inspector on every job. Call or text (352) 440-3310.
Licensed inspector on every job • .032 heavy aluminum • Lifetime no-clog warranty • Free estimates
Most of Hacienda sits in Sumter County, in Village Community Development District 1, with a small piece on the Lake County side. The Sumter side was built from about 1994 to 1997, and listings sometimes split it into Hacienda North and Hacienda South. The homes are site-built single-family houses, some frame with vinyl siding and some block and stucco, all under shingle roofs.
The village is built around Hacienda Hills, and the course has water on 14 of its 27 holes. That much water means pond-side lots, and a pond-side lot slopes toward the water. When a downspout empties at the back corner of a house like that, the water does not soak in where it lands. It follows the grade across the lawn and down the bank, carrying soil and mulch with it, and over a few rainy seasons it cuts a visible channel.
The fix is to slow the water down and spread it out before it reaches the slope. We tie the back downspouts into solid PVC underground drainage, which carries the water about five feet from the foundation and lets it out at an emitter on flatter ground, where it can soak in. Solid pipe stays round and clear underground. Black corrugated pipe crushes and traps debris, so we never use it.
What it means for your gutters: runoff on pond-side lots heads straight for the bank, and many gutters are original to the mid-1990s. Underground drainage and a check of the old runs are the two jobs here.
Hacienda spans the Lady Lake/Lake County district and District 1. 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 Hacienda homes around Hacienda Hills.
Hacienda’s original gutters are now about 30 years old, and they fail differently depending on the wall behind them. On the frame homes, a drip from a failed seam or a gutter that overflows runs down the vinyl siding and works into the wood fascia and trim, which can soften over time. On the block-and-stucco homes, the same leak leaves streaks and mildew on the wall and splashes soil onto the base.
Either way, the signs are worth checking for: fasteners backing out of the fascia, joints that drip after the rain stops, water standing in the gutter a day later. If your home has been re-roofed since it was built, look at the gutter too, since it may have been taken down and put back without the right pitch. We re-hang sound gutters at two-foot spacing and replace worn ones with seamless .032 aluminum rolled on site.
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 walks the slope from the back of the house to the water, checks where each downspout empties, and looks at the condition of the original mid-1990s gutters and fascia. 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 Hacienda, where a downspout aimed the wrong way on a pond-side lot can wash out the bank over a few summers. An inspector looks at the grade and the gutter together, so the water leaves the roof and the yard the right way.
“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
Hacienda is in the Lady Lake/Lake County district and District 1, 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.
Often it is the downspouts. Water dumped at the back corner follows the grade and cuts a path to the bank. Connecting the downspouts to solid PVC underground drainage that releases water at an emitter on flatter ground lets it soak in instead of running off. The bank stays where it is, and so does the lawn above it.
If the metal is sound and only the hangers are loose, re-hanging at two-foot spacing can work. If the seams and corners keep leaking or the gutter was bent during a re-roof, replacement with seamless .032 aluminum is usually the better spend. We show you what we find. We set hangers into sound fascia, never into old holes that no longer hold.
It depends on your lot. Tree cover varies here, so we look before recommending anything. Where trees hang over the roof, 316L stainless micro-mesh keeps debris out and carries a lifetime no-clog warranty. Where the roof is open, your money is better spent on drainage. Drainage is the first spend on most pond-side lots here.
Black corrugated pipe crushes under mowers and soil, and its ridges trap debris until it clogs. Then the water backs up at the downspout. We use solid PVC, which stays round, flows clean and carries the water about five feet from the foundation. Solid pipe also handles the heavy summer rains without backing up.
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 Spanish Springs Town Square. If you are visiting friends in a neighboring village, these pages are written for their homes:
See every village we serve near Spanish Springs Town 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 Hacienda home actually needs. If that is nothing right now, we will say so.
