Between the oaks in Golfview's yards and the tree line along the Bostick Golf Course, there's a lot of leaf and needle drop, and wind crossing the fairways blows it onto course-facing roofs. Those homes usually need cleaning at least twice a year or a guard on the back side.
Gainesville neighborhood · 32607
Gutter Services in Golfview, Gainesville, FL
Golfview's 1930s to 1960s houses fill a small grid on the west edge of UF, backed by the wooded Bostick Golf Course. Course trees and yard oaks fill gutters fast, and with so many rentals, a lot of our Golfview work is booked by owners who live somewhere else.
- ZIP
- 32607
- Jurisdiction
- City of Gainesville
- Power
- Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU)
- Typical job
- Cleaning and repair between leases
Local snapshot Golfview
- Home build era
- Mostly early 1930s to mid-1960s
- Mid-century survey
- 16 mid-century houses documented in a 2018 survey
- Neighboring course
- Mark Bostick Golf Course, 118 acres, designed by Donald Ross in 1921
- UF bought the course
- 1963
- Owner-occupied homes, ZIP 32607
- About 34% (5,211 of 15,322; ACS 2020–2024)
- ZIP 32607 population
- 35,720 (ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimate)
- To downtown Gainesville
- About 2.2 miles straight-line to City Hall
Landmarks & streets Near our work
- Mark Bostick Golf CourseUF's 118-acre tree-lined course; leaves and needles from its edge trees blow straight into Golfview gutters.
- University of Florida campusNext door to the east; game days and move-in weeks decide when we can park a truck at the curb.
- Lake AliceUF's lake, within walking distance, set in the same campus tree canopy.
- SW 34th StreetBusy arterial west of the course; our trucks usually come in this way.
- SW 2nd AvenueRuns along the course's north side and leads into Golfview's streets.
- Hibiscus Park and Black AcresNeighboring older neighborhoods with similar houses, rentals and canopy.
Golfview Gutter Cleaning Beside the Bostick Course
Golfview is a compact pocket of older streets on the west side of campus, with the University of Florida's golf course along its edge. That course dates back to 1921, when Donald Ross designed it for what was then the Gainesville Country Club. The university took it over in 1963, and today it's the 118-acre Mark Bostick Golf Course, ringed by a thick line of oaks and pines. Between those trees and the big oaks in Golfview's own yards, gutters here collect leaves, needles and twigs almost year-round.
Houses whose back fences face the fairways get the worst of it. Gusts build up across open grass and dump whatever they carry on the first roofs in their path. The trees doing the shedding often belong to the university, so trimming them back isn't simply your call. For most owners on that side, the practical answer is regular gutter cleaning or a micro-mesh gutter guard on the slope that faces the course.
A debris calendar for course-side roofs
- February to April: live and laurel oaks swap their leaves, and catkins follow. This is the heaviest load of the year.
- June to September: storm season. Wind-thrown twigs and green leaves land in gutters just when they need to carry the most water.
- October to December: pine needles and acorns, which tend to plug downspout outlets rather than fill the trough.
Golfview Gutter Repair on Older and Mid-Century Homes
Most of the houses here went up between the early 1930s and the mid-1960s. A UF historic preservation study in 2018 counted 16 mid-century homes in Golfview, a few of them designed by architects. Even so, the neighborhood was never made a designated historic district, which means a gutter project here answers to you and your budget, not to a preservation board.
Age still shapes the work. These are the problems we expect to find on a Golfview house:
- Shallow mid-century rooflines. Long, gently sloped eaves move water slowly, so outlet size and pitch decide whether a run overflows.
- Decades of add-ons. Back porches, enclosed garages and rear bedrooms leave awkward inside corners and short runs that leak at the seams.
- Tired fascia. On houses 60 to 90 years old, boards can be soft behind a gutter that looks fine from the sidewalk.
- Patchwork sectional gutters. Pieces replaced one at a time, in mismatched colors, held together with failing caulk.
A gutter repair visit handles resealing, re-pitching a sagging stretch or swapping a crushed downspout. If leaks show up on every side of the house, seamless runs usually cost less over a few years than repeated patch jobs. If you can't tell which camp your house is in, our list of replacement warning signs walks through the clues, and soft boards are swapped out under fascia and soffit repair ahead of any new hangers.
Flat and low-slope roof sections
A few mid-century Golfview houses, and plenty of their later additions, have nearly flat roof sections over a carport, a back room or a covered patio. Water on those roofs drifts toward the edge instead of running off, so leaves pile up and the gutter below stays wet for days. On those runs we set a firm pitch toward the outlet, use larger downspouts where the roof allows, and check that the roof edge actually laps into the gutter rather than dripping behind it. If it drips behind, the fascia rots no matter how clean the gutter is.
Golfview Gutters for Landlords and Property Managers
Census figures show only about 34 percent of homes in ZIP 32607 are lived in by their owners. Golfview has plenty of rentals in that mix, plus lots rebuilt or converted for student housing. Tenants rarely look up at a gutter, so problems tend to surface as a ceiling stain, a soggy flower bed or a complaint about water pouring over the front door.
When the owner lives in another city, this is how we keep things simple:
- We can do the work from outside with nobody home, or meet a tenant or manager if you prefer.
- You get photos of the gutters, downspouts and fascia before and after.
- The price arrives in writing for you to approve by email before we start.
- Cleanings get booked for turnover week and again ahead of hurricane season.
Home football Saturdays and the August move-in rush pack the streets around campus with cars, so we schedule around them whenever a job needs a truck and forming trailer at the curb. Larger multi-unit buildings are quoted through our commercial gutters service.
Golfview Downspouts and Drainage on Infill Lots
The 2018 preservation report listed Golfview among the near-campus neighborhoods losing single-family houses to student housing and rental conversions. New buildings often sit tight to older neighbors, which puts downspouts right at property lines. A careless outlet there can send your roof water straight into the house next door. We plan each downspout and extension so the water stays on your lot and moves away from both foundations, using our downspouts and drainage service.
Older Golfview houses on raised floors or low brick foundations also suffer when a downspout empties beside the crawlspace vents. Water that pools there keeps the space under the house damp all summer. Turning the outlet away, adding a few feet of extension or moving the downspout to a corner with better grade is usually a small, inexpensive change.
Golfview Gutter Costs
| Job | Typical range | What moves the price |
|---|---|---|
| Gutter cleaning, one story | $95–$175 | Course-side debris, number of downspouts |
| Gutter repair visit | $125–$600 | Leaking seams, sagging runs, crushed downspouts |
| Fascia replacement | $300–$1,500 | Feet of rot behind old gutters |
| Seamless 5" install, 1-story house | $1,200–$2,800 | Footage, additions, porch corners |
| Micro-mesh guards, course-facing side | $6–$15 per foot | Length of the back run, low-slope eaves |
Whatever the job, the number is agreed on paper before a ladder comes off the truck. Our article on Gainesville gutter pricing covers what pushes a quote up or down, or request an estimate and we'll price your address.
Gutter Services Near Golfview
On the southeast side of campus, Kirkwood pairs postwar houses with a heavy tree canopy and similar gutter needs. Across downtown, the Duckpond has even older houses inside a historic district, and up NW 34th Street, Northwood is mostly 1960s and 1970s ranch homes. Everywhere else is covered on our Gainesville, FL gutters home page.
Golfview Gutter Questions
Straight answers before you call.
No. Preservation researchers have studied its mid-century houses, but the city never designated it as a historic district. Gutter projects here don't go through historic review.
Yes. We can work from the outside, meet a manager or tenant, send before-and-after photos and give you a written price to approve remotely. Many owners schedule cleanings between leases.
We do. Home football Saturdays and the August move-in rush fill the curbs near campus, so we book installs that need our truck and forming trailer on other days.
Expect $95 to $175 on a single-story house, or $150 to $275 if there's a second floor. Homes facing the golf course with heavy debris land toward the top of those ranges.
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