Copper Gutters · Metro Detroit
3G Home Exteriors fabricates, installs, and repairs copper gutters for homeowners who want the water-control system to look like part of the house instead of an afterthought bolted to the fascia. Half-round runs, custom conductor heads, mitered corners, rain chains — detailed to match the architecture, and built to move water like any other gutter has to.
★★★★★ 4.5 / 5.0 · 224 Google reviews
Family-owned and operated in Michigan since 2011
Based at 31097 Fraser Dr, Fraser, MI 48026
Serving Macomb, Oakland and St. Clair counties
Free on-site inspection and a written, itemized scope before work begins
Copper carries water the same way aluminum does. What changes is everything around the water: the fabrication, the joints, the profile, and how the system looks in ten years. Half-round copper hangs differently than a stamped K-style aluminum run, corners are mitered and soldered rather than sealed and hoped for, and conductor heads and rain chains become visible parts of the exterior instead of hardware nobody wants to look at.
That’s why copper usually shows up on historic homes, Tudor and stone exteriors, and additions where a standard gutter profile would fight the roofline it’s hanging from. It’s a craft-level material, and it wants to be installed by someone treating it that way — measured to the run, cut and joined on the property, and detailed at every transition rather than trimmed to fit.
On a historic, stone, or steeply detailed exterior, copper reads as part of the building. Aluminum reads as a gutter. If the roofline is the first thing people notice about the house, the material hanging off it matters.
Custom fabrication opens up profiles and details that off-the-shelf aluminum systems don’t offer — half-round runs, custom conductor heads, and transitions shaped to the specific roof rather than to a stock catalog.
Copper that’s failing at the seams is often still sound as base material. We look at whether the run can be repaired and re-joined before recommending replacement of the whole system.
Copper weathers from bright metal to a warm brown, and over years of exposure toward a green patina. That change is the material doing what it does — not a defect, and not something to be repainted away. If a permanent, unchanging color is the goal, copper is the wrong choice and we’ll say so.
Tell us about the home’s architecture and whether this is new copper or a repair to an existing system.
We look at the fascia, the water volume each run has to carry, and any existing copper’s condition before recommending repair or replacement.
You get the profile, the details, and any custom fabrication written out — not just a price.
We install or repair, then review the finished runs, corners, and outlets with you before the job is closed.
Compare copper against our standard seamless gutter installation in aluminum before you commit to a material.
The masonry and stone detail that often pairs with copper on the same exterior.
Where the water goes after it leaves the downspout — worth planning at the same time.
Reviews below come straight from our Google Business Profile, so what you are reading is what other property owners in these towns actually wrote.
Based at 31097 Fraser Dr in Fraser, we cover most of Metro Detroit within a comfortable drive — which matters when a roof is open and the forecast changes. Don’t see your city? Ask us, coverage depends on distance and project scope.
Copper is joined, not snapped together. Soldered seams and hand-formed miters are what separate a copper system that lasts from expensive material assembled like aluminum.
Hangers, outlets, downspout sizing and where the water finally lands all get decided before fabrication. Copper is too expensive to install onto a roofline nobody measured properly.
Copper in contact with aluminum or steel, or aluminum sitting in copper runoff, corrodes over time. We look at what the copper will touch and detail the connections accordingly.
The same people scope, fabricate and hang the system. On a material this visible, consistency of workmanship across the whole roofline is most of the finished result.
You see what the copper costs, what the fabrication costs and what the labour costs, so a premium choice is made with real numbers rather than a single lump figure.
Copper outlives most of the people who install it, which makes it worth knowing who to call in twenty years. Ours has been the same family-run company at the same Fraser address since 2011, and a soldered repair to a system we built is a call to the people who built it rather than a search for somebody willing to touch copper.
Copper material and custom fabrication both cost more than off-the-shelf aluminum profiles. It is a premium material choice rather than a like-for-like swap, and the case for it rests on service life and appearance rather than on the up-front number. We will put the real figures for your roofline in the written scope.
It is worth checking. Copper sits far enough from aluminum and steel on the galvanic scale that direct contact between them, or aluminum sitting in copper runoff, can corrode the lesser metal over time. We look at what the copper will touch and what sits below it before anything is fabricated, and we detail the connections accordingly.
Yes. Copper weathers from bright metal to a darker brown and eventually toward a greenish patina over years of exposure. That progression is expected and is part of why people choose the material.
Yes — a front elevation or an entry roof in copper with standard gutters elsewhere is a common way to get the architectural effect where it’s visible. We’ll scope it either way during the estimate.
Often, yes. Copper is generally more repairable than aluminum, which is one of its long-term advantages: a damaged section can be soldered rather than replaced end to end. Sizing still matters as much as material, which our guide on 5-inch vs 6-inch gutters walks through.
Free estimates on new copper, copper repair, and standard seamless gutters. Financing is available for qualified projects — see financing options.
