New Gutters and Wind Repairs in Lakewood Park, FL

Block Homes Without Gutters, Manufactured Homes Beside Them

Lakewood Park had 12,510 residents at the 2020 Census, with a median age around 50. Two kinds of housing dominate. One is the single-story concrete block home on a flat, sandy lot, often with a shingle roof and no gutters. The other is the manufactured-home community, with metal or shingle roofs, attached carports and screen rooms, and roof edges built quite differently from a block house.

In a year with around 53 inches of rain, a house without gutters shows it at the base: washed-out beds, sand splashed up the stucco, puddles at the slab and soft spots by the driveway. Our article on whether Florida homes need gutters explains what that runoff does over time, and the downspouts and drainage page covers where the water should go once it is collected.

Wind is the other local factor. Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne crossed this part of St. Lucie County in 2004, and the area was on the path of the October 9, 2024 tornadoes from the Hurricane Milton outbreak. Gutter, soffit and carport repairs after wind are a familiar request here. If you are dealing with damage now, take dated photos before cleanup; what a policy covers depends on the policy, and the insurer decides.

Moving water off a flat, sandy lot

With almost no slope, roof water here stays wherever the downspout drops it. Downspout drainage solutions on these lots are simple: an extension or buried line that carries water at least 3 feet out, farther where the sand shows a trench, toward the part of the yard that dries first. Ask before aiming one at a roadside swale or a neighbor's yard.

Indrio Road, Kings Highway and the Streets Between

Lakewood Park spreads along Indrio Rd, Kings Hwy and the Turnpike Feeder Rd, with neighborhoods such as Holiday Pines and Portofino Shores, and manufactured-home communities like Spanish Lakes Country Club Village close by. Addresses use zip 34951 with a Fort Pierce mailing address, so give the street name when you call; it helps us send an installer who works north St. Lucie County. St. Lucie County sets its own contractor and permit rules. Every gutter installer we send is licensed where Florida requires it, and insured.

Manufactured homes and carports take gutters differently from block houses. Some have a thin metal or vinyl fascia, some have no fascia board at all, and carport roofs are often light aluminum panels. Installers can usually add gutters to both, but the attachment changes: brackets or a mounting strip suited to that edge instead of hangers into wood, and sometimes a smaller, lighter gutter on the carport. The installer checks the edge first and tells you what will hold before quoting.

On a manufactured home, keep downspout water away from the skirting, where it can collect under the home and around the piers; ask for extensions that carry it well past the skirting line.

After a Windstorm, and When You Live Elsewhere

• Photograph before cleanup: dated pictures of the gutters, the soffit and the carport, each on its own, and keep any fallen gutter pieces. Carport panels and framing may be separate work, so ask who handles each.
• Rentals and part-year homes: send dated photos with the street address and name a neighbor, tenant or community office that can let the installer in. Ask for notes that separate repairs needed before the next storm from routine upkeep.