But if patina isn t your thing you can keep copper gutters and downspouts shiny and warm colored by putting a protective coating on them each year and polishing them with a solution made for copper.
Green copper gutters.
Over time the copper metal interacts with the air and ambient moisture.
Copper gutters are more expensive but add a warm beautiful accent to your home.
This interaction causes oxidation and as the copper gutters age they will slowly form a green patina similar to the green color of the statue of liberty.
Although we don t have any process to speed up the greening effect of gutters we do indeed install copper gutters.
When copper gutters are first installed they look like a shiny new penny.
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Copper gutters and downspouts get an elegant blue green patina as they age thanks to the magic of oxidation.
If you are ever interested in seeing how copper gutters look on a house head over to our houzz page.
You will never have to paint them.
If not protected the copper will weather and turn brown very quickly and the distinctive copper look is lost.
You love the warm glow of the metal.
Maybe one day someone s copper patina gutters will make you green with envy.
It takes many years for copper to turn green and many people think brown copper just looks like painted metal.
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