I vacation in Wellfleet every couple years, and while my wife is shopping or going to galleries I stroll around and photograph gutter details (I'm not sure how it came to this, but here we are...)
It's both depressing and annoying- so many fine homes ruined. Many of these botched jobs have been done by "experienced carpenters" who "take pride in their work". I'll let the pictures speak for themselves:
I guess the knowledge of how a gutter originally intersected a rake is almost completely lost. Out of about 60 houses, there were 3 that had the correct detail. I owe it to them to sing their praises.
The next one is a renovation by Hammer Architects. Kudos to them for getting it right! Tragically, they used wood gutters instead of Duragutter, so the system will drain about half as well and rot out in ten years, but at least they knew how to detail it correctly. Doesn't this look much nicer than all the botched attempts shown above? Shouldn't we all be trying to do it right? There are links to 3D models and drawings on the traditional detail tab that show exactly how to execute this detail.