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Charles in Aus.

Charles in Aus.

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Geo's thread on no gutters has me thinking , I'm not getting any younger either and the gutters at the farm are 18 feet high .

It's an old school house built in 1915 , weather board sides and surrounded by big pine trees , gums and oaks , there is even a California Redwood tree at one corner . I have to clean out the guttering three or four times a year , our water supply comes directly off the roof .
There are a few systems of gutter guard around , mainly perforated or expanded plastic or aluminium .

Big question for me , which is the best style ? I would really appreciate advice from anyone who has actually fitted and lived with a leaf barrier that works .
 
We have the same problems all around the world don't we? We had a new roof put on our house 6 years ago, and the wife and I put
gutters on afterwards, the open top type. Since I'm only 68 and pretty spry I run up there about 3 times a year with a good leaf
blower and blow them out. We are probably going to sell this place in a few years so I will just keep doing that.
 
Have done a lot of work on houses that required the gutters be removed. When the gutters go back up, none of the home owners wanted their "gutter guards" re-installed. I have not seen any, that were worth a D***. My personal experience.

That being said. I moved into this house in '88. Last year was the first time I can remember NOT cleaning out my gutters. I'm just not up to it anymore. I wish I knew the answer. I am not going to send my son or one of my grand kids up there to do it either. Also not going to hire a kid off the street and be responsible for the liability that could create. I guess the only option is to hire a company who carries their own insurance, and pay through the nose to have gutters cleaned.
 
I put the aluminum expanded metal type on my garage, just slid under the shingles with a few roofing nails. Still had to clean them out. One year I bent them up right angel to the roof to clean and left them like that. They actually worked better that way for the gutters but collected everything. Now I just clean them by hand or ger up there with the backpack blower. Latest one is the Leaf Filter but I don't know if it's any better.
 
Not sure if they're available in OZ, but I had these installed 5 years ago and couldn't be happier.
https://www.leafguard.com/
Our home is surrounded by oak, elm and hickory trees. I do have to get on the roof a couple times a year to clean the dingleberries and debris (small sticks and stuff like that) from the valleys, but the gutters have never stopped flowing.
BillL
 
I will second Leaf Guard, we ve had them for probably 10 years and haven t had to touch a gutter once and we have lots of trees near the house. You will pay more for them but worth it for me.
 
(quoted from post at 06:16:27 03/28/20) I will second Leaf Guard, we ve had them for probably 10 years and haven t had to touch a gutter once and we have lots of trees near the house. You will pay more for them but worth it for me.
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#3 for Leaf Guard... been on for 2 years and I've loved them. I've got 1/5 acres with 80 oak trees and 72 years old . Got mine at Costco pretty cheap

john
 

That type of guard has been around for quite sometime.
Anyone use them on a steel roof where the ice and snow slides of? If so, how well do they hold up to that?

Dusty
 
I use a leaf blower extension to blow out rain gutters from the ground. It works best to blow them out regularly before they get tightly clogged. Wear a raincoat and goggles as debris flies everywhere, especially if there is any water left in the gutters. Blast some air up the downspouts to loosen clogs.

Kits are available for most brands, this is a sample of what's available:
https://thebestleafblowers.com/leaf-blower-gutter-attachment-kits/
 
I've got louvered type guards. They keep the gutters clean - but - snow sits on top of them. Until it melts off, snow melt from the roof above runs over them like a small waterfall. The water cuts a groove in the lawn and mud splashes on the house. But more than this, the snow over the gutters creates an ice-dam situation. The first winter the guards were installed, the 2nd tier of shingles around the entire house curled up and lifted. To prevent this, heat tape must be installed in the gutters or you have to pull the snow off with a snow rake. Or, if you are lucky, your local climate won't make this necessary.
 
I bought an accessory for my pressure washer that cleans out my gutters. Put it on an extension tube and it blows out the debris. Makes a real mess and you need to pressure wash the house when you are done. Oh and a good rain coat and rubber boots for the operator. From my experience no matter what you cover the gutters with, they will require cleaning at some point. Our horse barn is at least 75' from the nearest fir tree and 100+ from the nearest deciduous trees. I still need to clean those gutters every couple of years. Its never leaves, just green slime that plugs them up.

OTJ
 
I had an adapter for pressure washer.
Not careful you can damage shingles.
Then all the crap you've getting rid of has only one place to go, in your face and you smell like crap.
George
 


Thanks everyone , it looks like I'm going to have to drag these weary bones up and down ladders for a few more years yet .
Strange though it wasn't always so hard to do this , twenty years ago I seemed to just glide up there , can't think of what's happened in the meantime :)
 
we put some guards on in 2016 no issues yet, I do not remember what brand they were, but I can find out cause at same time i did it I did all new larger gutters, that really helped also, we now catch all the water off the house and shop does not take long to get over 2000 gal water
 
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