 will wear out pretty quickly compared to what a metal gutter would last. And when that happens, you end up doing a lot of patching, and it leaks through the gutters and so on. So to avoid that, and I actually did this to my 1886 house. We used to have a Yankee gutter like that built into the roof edge on the long sides of the house. And basically, we built up the roof there from the front edge of that gutter,